Chants of the Byzantine Rites: Canti Ecclesiastici della Tradizione Italo-Albanese in Sicilia (Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae, Subsidia)

About the Author Bartolomeo di Salvo (1916-86) was born in Piani degli Albensei, Sicily, and took the vows of a monk in 1937. He collected the material in this book during travels in the 1950s. Girolamo Garofalo is senior researcher in ethnomusicology at the University of Palermo, Italy. Christian Troelsgård is associate professor of Greek and Latin philology at the University of Copenhagen. Product Description This book presents for the first time the complete chant repertory of an orally transmitted collection of church hymns for the celebration of the Byzantine Rite in Sicily. Cultivated by Albanian-speaking minorities since their ancestors arrived in Sicily in the late fifteenth century, this repertory was transcribed by Bartolomeo di Salvo, a Basilian monk from the monastery of Grottaferrata, and is presented here in English, Italian, and Greek.