Dom Cardine about medieval authors and their way to discuss rhythm: "Ils ne savaient pas de quoi ils parlaient."
I think this projection summarises so well the situation of being helpless concerning most of the questions about rhythm, that we will certainly come together here. Even if these discussions are usually completely different with respect to Eastern and Western chant, those interested in Western chant can learn from the present profound ignorance of rhythm used in Byzantine chant.
It still lives within the traditions of Orthodox chant, yet we do not even understand the rhythm of the 18th-century traditions. The rhythmic style of Petros Peloponnesios at the New Music School of the Patriarchate became already a subject of disputes among the following generation of teachers like Iakovos the Protopsaltes and Petros Byzantios.
I would like to announce that Constantin Floros has uploaded his review of van Biezen:
https://www.academia.edu/7839626/
Zur Rhythmik der byzantinischen Kirchenmusik
35. Jahrg., H. 2 (April–Juni 1982), pp. 154-155
(article consists of 2 pages)
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The first review, published 1972:
https://www.academia.edu/7880827/
The Middle Byzantine Kanon-Notation of Manuscript H. A Palaeographic Study with a Transcription of the Melodies of 13 Kanons and a Triodion. (Utrechtse Bijdragen tot de Muziekwetenschap, Band V) by JAN VAN BIEZEN
Die Musikforschung
25. Jahrg., H. 3 (JULI/SEPTEMBER 1972), pp. 375-377
Published by: Bärenreiter
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41117391