Tessari Sylvia (ed.), Bessarion and music Concepts, theoretical sources and styles

Tessari Sylvia (ed.), 

Bessarion and music Concepts, theoretical sources and styles / Bessarione e la musica. Concezione, fonti teoriche e stili Proceedings of the international meeting Venice, 10-11 november 2018. 

Venezia 2021

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Moody Ivan, Review in: Journal of the International Society for Orthodox Church Music Vol. 7:1 (2023), Section IV: Reviews, pp. 74-75

Contents

• Silvia Tessari, Preface

• Daniel Glowotz, Born from a Series of Misunderstandings. The Reports about Music at the Council of Florence and the Documents of Cardinal Bessarion’s Musical Thought 

• Silvia Tessari, Bessarion and his Musical Culture as Reflected in his Byzantine Musical Manuscripts now in Venice 

• Gerda Wolfram, The Art of Chanting Reflected in Fifteenth/Sixteenth Centuries Byzantine Theoretical Treatises 

 

• Christian Troelsgård, Ioannes Plousiadenos, Bessarion and Byzantine music. Tracing Aspects of Byzantine Chant Traditions in the Later Part of Fifteenth Century along the Axis Constantinople – Crete – Venice 

• Nina-Maria Wanek, Byzantine ‘Polyphony’ in Bessarion’s Time 

• Giuseppe Sanfratello, Byzantine Chant in the Sicilian-Albanian Colonies since the Time of Bessarion 

• Maria Alexandru, St Kassia through the Eyes of Byzantine Composers of the Kalophonic Era