Hagiopolitan Octoechos
Traditional singers today often memorize the history of Byzantine chant in three parts, identified with the names John of Damascus as the "beginning" (the inventor of the octoechos), John Kukuzelis as the "flower" (the inventor of the psaltic art and its soloistic style called "kalophonia"), and Chrysanthos of Madytos as the "great teacher" of the living tradition today (the translator of psaltic art into the modern neume notation).
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