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Maronite Music: History, Transmission, and Performance Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Guilnard Moufarrej
Guilnard Moufarrej*
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University of California, Merced
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This essay discusses the music of the Maronite Church, a Christian church based in Lebanon. It provides an overview of the chants used in religious services and examines their transmission and performance practice. The Maronites have always faced challenges to maintain their identity and preserve their heritage while adapting to their cultural milieu. Their religious music reflects the dichotomy between safeguarding tradition and accepting contemporary trends. Since the late nineteenth century, Maronites looking for better opportunities and political freedom have increasingly immigrated to the New World, where they face new challenges to preserving their religious identity while assimilating to the culture of their new homeland. Therefore, this essay reaches beyond the traditional geographic boundaries of the Maronite Church in Lebanon to examine issues in the transmission of Maronite music in the diaspora.

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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , Winter 2010 , pp. 196 - 215
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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 2010

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