Diane Touliatos-Miles
Byzantine music
composers of medieval Byzantine chant
Ioannes Koukouzeles
Ioannes Kladas
Xenos Korones
Manuel Chrysaphes
women composers
hetairai
prostitutes
Telesilla of Argos
Sappho of Lesbos
Polygnota
daughter of Socrates of Thebes
daughter of Aristocrates of Cyme
Paul Corinthians 14:34-35
locales as Samosata
Church Fathers
Manuscript sources
liturgical music
liturgical chant
Martha, mother of Symeon
Theodosia
Thekla
Kassia
Kouvouklisena
Palaeologina
daughter of Ioannes Kladas.
Ioannes
hymnographers
Romanos Melodos
John of Damascus
Kanon
Theotokos
Lavra MS Gamma 71, manuscript i, Mount Athos
inscription , Athens MS 2406, folio 258v. (A published musical transcription by this writer is available in College Music Symposium, volume 24, (Spring, 1984), p. 64.) "The Lampadarios"
dynasty Palaeologus ,1259 to 1453
Kassia, A.D. 810, probably in Constantinople, and died sometime between 843 and 867.
Kasia (Kasia),
Kassia (Kassia)
Eikasia (Eikasia)
Ikasia (Ikasia)
Kassiane (Kassianh).
epigrams
gnomic verses
and moral sentences
Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos
fourteenth-century catalogue of important Byzantine hymnographers
Triodion, a Lenten liturgical service book, printed in Venice in 1601
iconoclastic
Theodore the Studite (759-826)
Emperor Theophilos, who reigned from 830 to 842.
Edward Gibbon.
Theophilos
Byzantios
Georgios
Kyprianos
Marcos Monachos
Stichera
performance practice of medieval Byzantine liturgical music
sang the monophonic notated melody
unwritten improvisatory
accompaniment
isokratema.
Augustus (27 B.C. -A.D. 14)

Touliatos, Diane. "Kassia (ca. 810-ca.867)," Women Composer: Music Through the Ages, vol. I Composers Born Before 1599, eds.Martha Furman Schleifer and Sylvia Glickman. New York: G.K. Hall,1996, pp. 1-24.

Idem., "The Traditional Role of Greek Women in Music from Antiquity to the End of the Byzantine Empire," Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions, ed. Kimberly Marshall (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993), pp. 111-23 and notes 250-53.

Idem., "Medieval Women Composers in Byzantium and the West," Proceedings of the VIth International Congress of Musicology "Musica Antiqua Europae Orientalis" (Bydgoszcz, Poland, 1982) pp. 687-712.

Idem., "Women Composers of Medieval Byzantine Chant," College Music Society Symposium, vol. 24, pt. 1 (Spring, 1984), 62-80.

Kassia's "Using the Apostate Tyrant As His Tool," Transcription and Arrangement by Diane Touliatos for the Kronos String Quartet's Early Music (Lachrimae Antiquae) CD, 3' 51", released September, 1997.