The Byzantine approach to the liturgical text setting

This thesis deals with the byzantine approach to the liturgical text setting. Since byzantine music is not well known in the Czech Republic, the first chapters of this thesis explain the rudiments of theory and notation of byzantine music while the last and main chapter deals with the issue of the byzantine "text setting technique". In order to demonstrate the principles of the byzantine composing technique the main chapter is conceived as a kind of "workshop" where these principles are applied to the Czech language, and where the procedure of text setting is described step by step. The main aspiration of this study is to prove that the byzantine approach is a very sophisticated and interesting one as well as to show that this musical language is universal and can be utilized for text setting in almost any other language than Greek