A Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Manuscript Collection of the National Library of Greece: Byzantine Chant and Other Music Repertory Recovered

The Ancient Greeks transmitted much of their music theory and performance practices to the Byzantines, who in turn added to and disseminated this information to their western and eastern neighbours. Thus it is easy to see the importance of surviving manuscript sources to present‐day practitioners and scholars. I quickly warmed to this seemingly formidable work on reading the author's Preface where she admits that she never dreamed, when as a young Fulbright musicology student at the National Library of Greece, she would ever compile a catalogue: “But I soon realized that there was no catalogue of the music holdings and...