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Музикалната Епистемология На Аристоксен [Musical Epistomology Of Aristoxenus], Anna K. Boshnakova
Музикалната Епистемология На Аристоксен [Musical Epistomology Of Aristoxenus], Anna K. Boshnakova
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Музикално-Философските „Картини" На Касия [Kassia's Musico-Philosophical “Paintings”], Anna K. Boshnakova
Музикално-Философските „Картини" На Касия [Kassia's Musico-Philosophical “Paintings”], Anna K. Boshnakova
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This article is dedicated to the unique musico-philosophical "paintings" of Kassia - gifted poet and composer, wrote over fifty liturgical chants and more than two hundred secular verses in the forms of epigrams, gnomic verses, and moral sentences. She was born around AD. 810, probably in Constantinople, and died sometime between 843 and 867. Kassia's fame and importance is documented by Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos in his fourteenth-century catalogue of important Byzantine hymnographers, in which she is the only woman composer acknowledged. As а composer of sacred poems, (which are remarkable example of melopsychographia), her musical inventiveness was very important …