-
called cheironomic or in
campo aperto,
appeared as
freeform wavy
lines above the text.
Various scholars see
these as
deriving from
cheironomic hand-gestures...
-
famous maistores of
Psaltic Art at Constantinople,
leading a
choir by the
cheironomic gesture of Ison (picture of a 15th-century
chant m****cript at the Great...
- text.
Scholars postulate that this
practice may have been
derived from
cheironomic hand-gestures, the
ekphonetic notation of
Byzantine chant, punctuation...
- into
another echos. The so-called "great signs" were once
related to
cheironomic signs;
according to
modern interpretations they are
understood as embellishments...
- have survived. Only a 14th-century m****cript of
Kastoria testifies cheironomic signs used in
these books,
which are
transcribed in
longer melodic phrases...
-
keriah know of any errors. In some congregations, a
gabbai will give
cheironomic signals to
indicate how the
verses should be chanted. All
those at the...
-
Mount Athos, Mone Koutloumousi, Ms. 475, fol. 1v). His
students use
cheironomic gestures for the
neumes ison and oxeia, two of the
first signs memorized...
