1. Gregory of Nyssa, On Easter, Homily 4 (PG 46:681). Translation from A. Hamman, The Paschal Mystery: Ancient Liturgies and Patristic Texts (Staten Island, NJ: Alba House, 1969), 96. Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite similarly speaks of hymns as "the sound of many waters," possibly alluding to Ps 93 (92)
2. pseudo-Dionysius, The Celestial Hierarchy 7.4. Translation is from pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works, trans. C. Luibhéid and P. Rorem (New York: Paulist Press, 1987), 165.
3. Alexander Lingas, “From Earth to Heaven: The Changing Musical Soundscape of Byzantine Liturgy,” in Experiencing Byzantium, ed. C. Nesbitt and M. Jackson (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013), 311–58 at 313.
4. R. Murray Schafer, The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World (new ed., Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1994), 274.
5. Alain Corbin, Village Bells: The Culture of the Senses in the Nineteenth-Century French Countryside (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998). The term “acoustic communities” comes from Schafer, The Soundscape, esp. 214–22.