В изантийски литургически песнопения в Южна Италия
Byzantine Liturgical Chants from Southern Italy

Summary/Abstract: The main source which is considered in the article (study) is the book “L’antica melurgia bizantina” by hieromonk Lorenzo Tardo. The book is little known in Bulgaria. In presenting the book to the readers I have preferred those data which provide information on Byzantine music in the territory of Italy. The book also presents sources from libraries and monasteries in Italy. This work by Tardo is of Eastern Church chants. It is based on evidence from the monastic school in the Grottaferrata Monastery near Rome. It was printed in 1938 in the Eastern Italian school of printing bearing the name of St. Nilus. The author also relies on a large number of documents as living evidence of the importance and beauty of those medieval works which in his opinion are a model of Byzantine music and hymnography and which are still in use in the Church. The chants presented can be accepted as models showing the interaction of the oral and written traditions of Byzantine chant. The book by L.Tardo is not the object of a critical study. It cannot rival contemporary works on the subject but it provides valuable obserations in the field of Byzantine music and hymnography in the Italo-Greek area. By means of a comparative analysis of many musical documents preserved in Italian libraries and their interpretation by hieromonk Lorenco, we obtain a picture (we get an idea) of the vitality and importance of the local oral tradition and its legitimization in the practice of the Church as a genuine bridge between the East and the West.

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