Endnote 1 – How a Sung Sermon Works

The most complete discussion of the structure and metrics of the kontakia is José Grosdidier de Matons, Romanos le Mélode et les origines de la poesie religieuse a Byzance (Paris: Beauchesne 1977) 119–156, and Paul Mass and Constantine A. Trypanis, Sancti Romani Melodi Cantica: Cantica Genuina (Oxford: Clarendon, 1963) pp xi–xxiii.