Byzantine and Gregorian Chant, Two Branches of Christian Music

Byzantine and Gregorian Chant, Two Branches of Christian Music offers a synthesis based on cultural reflections and accumulated evidence that beyond diversified forms of manifestation the two kinds of religious chant, as practiced today in the Eastern and Western Christian Church, respectively, prove their unity in their common original functionality and finality, their common ethos, their original sources, the ways music proliferated, and, finally, in certain structural elements. The work still remaining to be invested in more extensive and pointed comparisons between indigineous church music and the European music in general holds the promise of identifying even more convincing evidence of musical and spiritual unity.

Gabriela Ocneanu