Medieval sacred chant
Subtitle: from Japan to Portugal = Canto sacro medieval : do Japão a Portugal
By: Manuel Pedro Ferreira, coordenação
Series: Estudos musicológicos -- 5; Ensaios musicológicos -- 5.
Publisher: Edições Colibri; Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lisboa
Language: eng; fre; por
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9789727727896
Subjects: Music; Congresses; History and criticism; Buddhist chants; Byzantine chants; Gregorian chants
Other titles: Canto sacro medieval :
Notes: Papers originally presented at Monodia sacra medieval = Medieval sacred monody, an international colloquium held in Lisbon and Evora, June 2-5, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references.

English (chiefly), Portugese and French (1 paper)
Table of contents: title: Buddhist music. Chinese hymns in Japanese Buddhist litrugy : structure and ornament / Elisabeth J. Markham ; Music on Japanese Raigō images 700-1700; title: and Chinese influences / Bo Lawergren; title: Christian music. I. Old-Roman, Byzantine and Russian Chant. Russian liturgical chant books from the 11th-14th centuries and their function in liturgical practice / Svetlana Poliakova ;  Some current areas of research in Orthodox chant and their impact on performance / Ivan Moody ; On Byzantine and Old-Roman drones / Kenneth Levy. II. Gregorian chant and beyond. The lamentation of Asterix : Conclusit vias meas inimicus / Manuel Pedro Ferreira ; Aspects of mode in the office of Thomas Becket : new tunes from the diocese of Trier / Estelle Joubert ; Le prosaire de l'ordre de Grandmont (Paris, BnF n.a.l. 2680, XIVe s. in) / Marie-Noël Colette. III. The notation of monody in the Iberian penninsula. Breves notas sobre a representação do meio-tom nos manuscritos litúrgicos medievais portugueses, ou o mito da "notação portuguesa / João Pedro d'Alvarenga ; Observations on the monophonic conductus of the Las Huelgas codex / Nicolas Bell ; A mensuralidade na monodia litúrgica portuguesa do século XVI / José Maria Pedrosa Cardoso.