Musicology Annotation << Back The Entry of the Mother of God (Theotokos) into the Temple in Greek manuscripts. Authors’ Kalophonic Chants Nadezhda Shchepkina For the first time in the medieval musical studies, the repertory of Kalophonic hymns which form the Office of the Major Feast honoring the Theotokos have been identified. The work deals with six unpublished manuscript sources dated by the 15th, 16th and 18th centuries from the collections of Saint Petersburg depositories. The sources contain 15 compositions to the texts of the Entrance of the Theotokos hymn cycle. The author of the work has identified six hymnographers (melurgui) of the Byzantine and post-Byzantine periods, who wrote the music to the texts of the Entrance Feast hymns: Nicolaоs Campana, John Kukuzelis, Xenos Koronis, Konstantinos Magoulis, Manuel Chrysaphes and Balasios the Priest. A special difficulty in the study of kalophonic hymns is their attribution to a canonical text, as the role of incipits in such hymns often belongs to medial or final cola of canonical texts. For their work, the hymn creators chose the most important genres of the festal hymn cycle: the ideomelon sticheron, the refrain to the 9th ode of the kanon, the heirmos of the 9th ode of the kanon. Keywords: manuscript hymnbook, canonical text, edition, Byzantine hymnographers (melurgui), hymn cycle. Contacts: E-mail: nadjach@yandex.ru Pp. 14-20.