Collection of Byzantine and Orthodox Musics

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Title

Collection of Byzantine and Orthodox Musics

Resource Link

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/mus00001/catalog

Abstract

Recordings collected by ethnomusicologist Laura Boulton between 1951 and1969 primarily in Greece, Yugoslavia, Ethiopia, and various other countries. It consistsprimarily of Byzantine and other Orthodox Eastern church music and services from theliturgical cycles; it also contains folk and classical music, some of a religious nature,and miscellaneous commercial recordings and books.

Extent

Sound recordings (351 reels, 12 discs) and accompanyingmaterials (4 linear feet, 9 file boxes)

Holding Repository

Archive of World Music, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard College Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6386001

Related Entities

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Velimirovic, Milos

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Feodor Potorjinsky

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Stefanovic, D. I. (Dimitrije I.), 1929-

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Boulton, Laura, 1899-1980

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The music collector Laura Boulton, or musical anthropologist, as she was known in the early days of her fieldwork, recorded some 30,000 musical examples in the course of her 81 years. During a career which took her from hidden corners of the globe to urban centers alike, from royal palaces to tribal huts, she embarked on expedition after expedition at a time when such journeys were considered exotic, dangerous, and beyond the reach of the average traveler. Born in Connea...