The Byzantine Chant Byzantine Chant is the music of the Orthodox churches located primarily around the Mediterranean Sea. Byzantine chant can be better understood with a look into the history of the Byzantine chant, characteristics of the chant, and it's relation to other Orthodox chants. Byzantine chant developed in Byzantium from the establishment of its capital, Constantinople, in 330 until its fall in 1453. It is of combined origin, drawing on the artistic and technical productions of the classical age, on Jewish music, and was inspired by the monophonic vocal music that evolved in the early Christian cities of Alexandria, Antio