Miloš Velimirović

Miloš Milorad Velimirović (December 10, 1922 – April 18, 2008) was an American

Velimirović was born in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia to Milorad and Desanka (Jovanović) Velimirović, a physician and a piano teacher respectively. In his boyhood in Serbia, he learned to play the violin and piano. He learnt several languages, and had a lifelong passion for music. During his adolescent years he studied music history and music theory. Velimirović began a program of studies in music history at the University of Belgrade, also studying violin and piano at the conservatory. In 1941, with the invasion of the Axis powers, the university was closed, and Velimirović's studies there were suspended until after the war.

Fieldwork in Yugoslavia

From 1950 to 1951, Velimirović worked with

Academic career

Velimirović was a

• Byzantine elements in early Slavic Chant: The Hirmologion. Monumenta musicae Byzantinae. Copenhagen: E. Munksgaard. 1960.
• Jack Westrup, ed. (1966). "Byzantine Composers in Ms. Athens 2406". Essays Presented to Egon Wellesz. London & New York: Oxford University Press.
• Studies in Eastern Chant, volumes I–IV. Egon Wellesz and Miloš Velimirović, general editors. Oxford University Press. 1966–1979.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• Laurence Berman, ed. (1972). "The Prooemiac Psalm of Byzantine Vespers". Words and Music: The Scholar's View: A Medley of Problems and Solutions Compiled in Honor of A. Tillman Merritt by Sundry Hands. Cambridge: Harvard University, Department of Music [1]. {{cite book}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
• ISBN 1-56159-174-2
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• Malcolm Hamrick Brown, ed. (1984). "Melodies of the Ninth-Century Kanon for St. Demetrius". Russian and Soviet Music: Essays for Boris Schwarz. Russian Music Series. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press.
  ISBN 0-8357-1545-0
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• Richard Crocker;
  ISBN 0-19-316329-2
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• Richard Crocker; David Hiley, eds. (1990). "Byzantine Chant". The New Oxford History of Music: v.2 The Early Middle Ages to 1300 (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.
  ISBN 0-19-316329-2
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• John J. Yiannias, ed. (1991). "Byzantine Musical Traditions among the Slavs". The Byzantine Tradition after the Fall of Constantinople. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia.
  ISBN 0-8139-1329-2
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• William C. Brumfield; Milos M. Velimirovic., eds. (1991). Christianity and the arts in Russia.
  ISBN 0-521-41310-9
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• John S. Langdon; Stephen W. Reinert; Jelisaveta Stanojevich Allen; Christopher P. Ioannides, eds. (1993). "Reflections on Music and Musicians in Byzantium". ΤΟ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΝ: Studies in Honor of Speros Vryonis, Jr. New Rochelle, New York: Aristide D. Caratzas.
  ISBN 0-89241-512-6
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• Alex N. Dragnich, ed. (1994). "Serbia's Cultural Legacy: the Middle Ages". Serbia's Historical Heritage. New York: Columbia University Press.
  ISBN 0-88033-244-1
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• A. R. Littlewood, ed. (1995). "Originality and Innovation in Byzantine Music". Originality in Byzantine Literature, Art and Music: A Collection of Essays. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
  ISBN 0-946897-87-5
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• Geoffrey C. Orth, ed. (1995). "The First Organ Builder in Russia". Literary and Musical Notes: a Festschrift for Wm. A Little. Berne: Peter Lang.
  ISBN 3-906753-89-1
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• Helen Damico with Donald Fennema and Karmen Lenz, ed. (2000). "Egon Wellesz (1885–1974)". Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline: Volume 3: Philosophy and the Arts. New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc.
  ISBN 0-8153-3339-0
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• Peter Jeffery, ed. (2001). "Russian Musical Azbuki: A Turning Point in the History of Slavic Chant". The Study of Medieval Chant: Paths and Bridges, East and West: in Honor of Kenneth Levy. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer.
  ISBN 0-85115-800-5
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• Findeizen, Nikolai (January 16, 2008). History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800. Russian Music Studies. Miloš Velimirović and Claudia R. Jensen, editors, translation by Samuel William Pring. Bloomington:
  ISBN 978-0-253-34825-8
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• Velimirovic, Milos (1960). "Russian Autographs at Harvard". Notes. Second Series. 17 (4). Music Library Association: 539–558.
  JSTOR 892377
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• Velimirović, Miloš; Liszt, Franz (1961). "Lisztiana, with Three Unpublished Letters". The Musical Quarterly. 47 (4). Oxford University Press: 469–480.
  JSTOR 740625
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• Velimirovic, Milos M. (1962). "Liturgical Drama in Byzantium and Russia".
  JSTOR 1291166
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• Velimirovic, Milos; Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay (1962). "An Unpublished Letter from Rimsky-Korsakov". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 15 (3). University of California Press on behalf of the American Musicological Society: 352–353.
  JSTOR 829870
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• Velimirovic, Milos (Winter 1962). "Recent Soviet Articles on Music Theory". Journal of Music Theory. 6 (2). Duke University Press on behalf of the Yale University Department of Music: 283–293.
  JSTOR 842913
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• Velimirovic, Milos (Summer 1963). ""Early Roots of Russian Opera" Revisited". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 16 (2). University of California Press on behalf of the American Musicological Society: 257–260.
  JSTOR 829948
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• "Cristoforo Ivanovich from Budva: the first Historian of the Venetian Opera". Zvuk: 135–45. 1967.
• Velimirović, Miloš (Jul 1968). "H. J. W. Tillyard, Patriarch of Byzantine Studies". The Musical Quarterly. 54 (3). Oxford University Press: 341–351.
  JSTOR 741291
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• Velimirović, Miloš; Velimirovic, Milos (Jan–Jun 1971). "Present Status of Research in Byzantine Music". Acta Musicologica. 43 (1/2). International Musicological Society: 1–20.
  JSTOR 932497
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• Velimirović, Miloš; Velimirovic, Milos (Jul–Dec 1972). "The Present Status of Research in Slavic Chant". Acta Musicologica. 44 (2). International Musicological Society: 235–265.
  JSTOR 932170
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• Velimirovic, Milos (Autumn 1975). "[Letter from Miloš Velimirović]". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 28 (3). University of California Press on behalf of the American Musicological Society: 567–569.
  JSTOR 831331
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• Kenneth E. Naylor, ed. (1976). "Peasant Culture and National Culture: Examples from the Arts". Balkanistica. III. Columbus, OH: Slavica Publishers, Inc. [for the American Association for South Slavic Studies].
  ISSN 0360-2206
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• Velimirović, Miloš (Apr 1976). "Egon Wellesz and the Study of Byzantine Chant". The Musical Quarterly. 62 (2). Oxford University Press: 265–277.
  JSTOR 741340
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• Velimirovic, Milos (Winter 1986). "Changing Interpretations of Music". New Literary History. 17 (2). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 365–380.
  JSTOR 468903
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