Chrysanthos of Madytus

Chrysanthos of Madytus: (c. 1770, Madytus, northwestern Turkey – 1846, Bursa, Turkey)

Byzantine theorist. Working with Chourmouzios the Archivist and Gregorios the Protopsaltes (c. 1778–1821), he wrote Theōretikon mega tēs mousikēs ("Great Theoretical Book on Music"), which simplified the neumatic notation of Byzantine chant, which had grown extremely complex over the centuries, with a kind of solfege and a reduction of the traditional eight modes into three species: diatonic, chromatic, and enharmonic. This Reformed or "Chrysanthine" notation is today the system of the Greek Orthodox Church.

See also Guido D’Arezzo; Oktoēchos.

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Byzantine Chant — Chant of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Uniate Church of the Byzantine Rite, and other ecclesial descendants of the eastern Roman empire. An estimated 15,000 manuscripts of the chant survive, although only about 10 percent are written in a… … Historical dictionary of sacred music
Kalophonic Chant — Elaboration of the traditional Byzantine chants, characterized by verbal and motivic repetition and performed by expert maistores from the 14th and 15th centuries until the 19th century, when Chrysanthos of Madytus simplified the repertory.… … Historical dictionary of sacred music
Madytos — (griechisch Μαδυτός, lateinisch Madytus) bezeichnet: eine antike Stadt auf dem thrakischen Chersones, heute Eçeabat auf der Halbinsel Gallipoli in der Türkei ein auf einen erloschenen Bischofssitz in der antiken Stadt zurückgehendes… … Deutsch Wikipedia

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