From at least the eighth century and for about a thousand years the
repertory of music known as Georgian chant, or plainsong, formed
the largest body of written music AND was the most frequently
performed and the most assiduously studied in Western civilisation.
But plainsong did not follow rigid conventions. It seems
increasingly clear that, whatever may have been intended with
respect to uniformity and tradition, the practice of plainsong
varied considerably within time and place. It is just this
variation, this living quality of plainsong, that these essays
address. The contributors have sought information from a wide
variety of areas: liturgy, architecture, art history, secular and
ecclesiastical history and hagiography, as a step towards
reassembling the tesserae of cultural history into the rich mosaic
from which they came.
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