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The Byzantine chant was added by UNESCO in 2019 to its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage "as a living art that has existed for almost 2,000 years, the Byzantine chant is a significant cultural tradition and comprehensive music system forming part of the common musical traditions that developed in the Byzantine Empire."
The Acritic songs (Greek: Ακριτικά τραγούδια, lit. 'frontiersmen songs') are the epic poems that emerged in the Byzantine Empire probably around the ninth century. The songs celebrated the exploits of the Akritai , the frontier guards defending the eastern borders of the Byzantine Empire.
The Song of Armouris or the Lay of Armouris (also Armoures; Greek: Ἄσμα τοῦ Ἀρμούρη) [a] is a medieval Greek heroic poem of the middle Byzantine period. Dating from the 11th century, it is probably one of the oldest surviving Acritic songs, narrative heroic songs or ballads celebrating the lives and exploits of the Byzantine Akritai.
Digenes Akritas (Latinised as Acritas; Greek: Διγενῆς Ἀκρίτας) [a] is a medieval Greek romantic epic that emerged in the 12th-century Byzantine Empire.It is the lengthiest and most famous of the acritic songs, Byzantine folk poems celebrating the lives and exploits of the Akritai, the inhabitants and frontier guards of the empire's eastern Anatolian provinces.
Akrítas óndes élamnen, translated by Thede Kahl. Birds, including the eagle, were a common motif in Pontian folklore, and Greek folklore at large. One song, Aitén'ts eperipétanen ("An eagle flew high"), speaks of an eagle carrying the arm of an unknown soldier in its claws. The fallen soldier himself lies dead on the mountainside. The song is highly allegorical. Many Acritic songs from ...
Russian Liturgical Music is the musical tradition of the Russian Orthodox Church. This tradition began with the importation of the Byzantine Empire's religious music when the Kievan Rus' converted to Orthodoxy in 988.
Kassia, Cassia or Kassiani (Greek: Κασσιανή, romanized: Kassianí, pronounced; c. 810 – before 865) was a Byzantine-Greek composer, hymnographer and poet. [1] She holds a unique place in Byzantine music as the only known woman whose music appears in the Byzantine liturgy. [2]
Romanos the Melodist (Greek: Ῥωμανὸς ὁ Μελωδός; late 5th-century – after 555) was a Byzantine hymnographer and composer, [1] who is a central early figure in the history of Byzantine music.