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This is the first comprehensive study of Greek language ordinary chants (
Gloria/Doxa, Credo/Pisteuo, Sanctus/Hagios and Agnus Dei/Amnos tu theu) in Western manuscripts from the 9th to 14th centuries. These chants - known as "Missa Graeca" - have been the subject of academic research for over a hundred years. So far, however, research has been almost exclusively from a Western point of view, without knowledge of the Byzantine sources. For the first time, this book presents an in-depth analysis of these chants and their historical, linguistic and theological-liturgical environment from a Byzantine perspective. The new approach enables the author to refute numerous (and largely contradictory) theories on the origin and development of the Missa Graeca and provides new answers to old questions.
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Mag. Dr. Nina-Maria Wanek (1974), Vienna University, is a senior researcher in Byzantine and Modern Greek music from the middle ages until the 20th century, Western plainchant as well as 20th century Austrian music. She has published numerous monographs and articles on these topics, including a book on
Sticheraria in Late and Post-Byzantine Times as well as on the Byzantine music-liturgical manuscripts at the Austrian National Library. Currently she is conducting a major research project on "Psalm Composition in Middle- and Late Byzantium" at Vienna University.
