Josh Gallagher - My Maria (The Voice Performance)

CHEIRONOMY, chironumia (Greek xeironomia, from xeir - hand and nomos - law) - conditional gestures used in the management of the choir and indicated to the singers the rhythm, dynamics and nature of the performance of chants. X. was used to remind singers of complex melodic. turnover or ornamental chant, not writable. The emergence of X. belong to ancient times. So, some Egyptian images suggest that this method of conducting was already known in the 3rd millennium BC. e.and possibly influenced the Egyptian musical notation. X. received further development in other Greek, early Christian music and the church. music of the Middle Ages (Byzantium). The movements of the fingers of both hands and the hands themselves, cf. Domestic conductor served as the basis for the creation of Greek. and lat., and after them the Slavic singer. familyography. The special “airy” character is heironomic. signs, independent of the written material, does not make it possible to trace their evolution. In Byzantium, X. was an intermediate link between the Ephonetic and Early Byzantine notation. The signs of X. were widely used in the Middle and Late Byzantine notation. In USA, X. is known from the 11th-12th centuries, as evidenced by the heironomic. images of the hand in manuscripts of that time, e.g. in the condacar of the Printing Rules of the 11-12th centuries., Stichirare of the 12th century. (Public library named after ME Saltykov-Shchedrin, q I No15).