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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Preosviashchennyi Porfirii Uspenskii i Ego Kollektsiia Drevnikh Muzykal`nykh Rukopisei
[ In search of Greek Church singing : His Grace Porfirii Uspenskii and his collection of old musical manuscripts]
St. Petersburg: Aleteia, 1996 228 p. [139 ill] Serie: Vizantiiskaia Biblioteka: Issledovaniia Hardcover ISBN: 5893290119 Language: Russian
Bishop Porfirii Uspenskii (1804-1885) was widely known as a historian of Eastern Christianity. This book is about his search for the Church songs which were performed in Byzantium and his studies of Greek church music of the 16th-19th centuries. He also collected old music manuscripts, obtaining them by hook or by crook in monasteries of the Christian East. The author is a medievalist from the Russian Institute of Art History. The book includes analysis of Uspenskii`s collection, a list of the Byzantine song repertoire, and 139 illustrations of scores and old manuscripts.
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