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“What the Palestinian monasteries offered the Church of Constantinople was a tradition of music and hymnody which has remained at the heart of Byzantine liturgy; it was also in Palestine that the eight musical modes were developed. They were…soon adopted by the Carolingians and Western Church to organize its musical composition and chant, and so they stand at the origin of the whole Western musical tradition.”