Plousiadinos' Song - Late Medieval Byzantine Music (Patreon)

Early access to a speculative, historically informed approximation of what historical, secular music of the Eastern Roman Empire could have sounded like.

The only surviving secular piece of music from the Eastern Roman Empire is by Ioannis Plousiadinos, a 15th century Cretan intellectual who wrote an Imperial Acclamation for John VIII Palaiologos, the penultimate emperor of the Empire. The melody heard here is based on that written down composition, and I added in attested melodic motifs from medieval Byzantine liturgical music and neighbouring modal traditions. The instrumentation is all period accurate and based on visual representations of Greek medieval art.