st. john of damascus (676-749 - Cristo Raul

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HYMNS.
hymn-writer of that Church, we should add him that to
is ascribed the composition of this
book; or at
least, of the original germ or nucleus of it Not
lerely the words, but the music as well, have been
ittnbuted to him ; and some writers have even
so far
gone
as to say, that he must be considered the
author both of Eastern Church music, and of the
system of notation used for it. This is no doubt an
exaggeration of his services ; but the very existence
such of
a belief testifies to the high repute in which his
its
as a hymn-writer were held.
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-ie Universelle des Musiciens," par F. J. Fetis
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mus.que Manuscripts of the
"Octoechos," some
of them with anc,ent musical notation, are preserved in the
Impenal L.braries of Paris and Vienna. A list of some of
abridUS ^ Jn
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