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Kenneth Levy

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257:, Paula Higgins notes that he "investigated Byzantine and Western chant, including the Old Roman, Ambrosian, Beneventan and Ravennate repertories, and by careful comparison he has been able to draw tentative conclusions regarding the relationships of certain Western chants to Byzantine models and between modal patterns and performing practices common to East and West." He also wrote on the 448: 443: 185: 97: 349: 376: 251:. In particular, an obituary from Princeton described him as "among the world’s authorities on early Christian and Byzantine music". In 224:
for over a decade. In 1966 he returned to Princeton, teaching there until his retirement in 1995. Levy died on August 15, 2013, in
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Kenneth Jay Levy was born on February 26, 1927, in New York, New York. After service in
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set up the 'Kenneth Levy Fund' to fund studies relating to
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Skillman, New Jersey
Byzantine music
Alma mater
Queens College
Princeton University
Medieval
Byzantine music
Princeton University
Brandeis University
Medieval
Renaissance
Byzantine music
World War II
Queens College, City University of New York
Bachelor of Arts
Curt Sachs
music theory
Karol Rathaus
Master of Fine Arts
Princeton University
Oliver Strunk
Erich Hertzmann
Brandeis University
Skillman, New Jersey
American Institute of Musicology
medieval music
Medieval
Renaissance
Byzantine music
Grove Music Online

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