... According to the Ms Sinai 1097 the Amomos had the following refrains (I give an example in Slavonic): 1st stasis: Ublazhaem tya, [Bogovidche Moisee,...
"Read" never means "conversational speaking"; rather what you may think of as 'chant'. There are others who can do a better job of explaining the purpose of...
Dear Sergius, ... The modern Russian Typikon says: i poem neporochni, na glas 5: v nihzhe kadit ierei. Tazhe tropari, Angelskiy sobor... According to the...
Shota, this is very interesting indeed! I have always believed that the magnifications are related to the Good Friday enkomia (statiji, prohod). So the first...
Can anyone direct me to a source for the "Odednitsa", in English, as served by a priest when the celebration of the full Liturgy isn't possible? In Christ, ...
I do not think the Magnification (Marimurile) is an element of sabbaitic typikon. I'd say it is a later addition, although I have not found any reference as to...
... and ... triple ... Dear Shota, Is this for all Sundays, or for those in the winter months for the lenthening of the night? It is also interesting in that...
Dear Sergius, ... Hard to say, it's from the part describing Sunday vigil. If there's no provision in other parts of the Typikon, then probably the polyeleos...
... exception is any ... epistle ... capable, to ... evil ... JRS: This, however, is not the older Greek practice. If you look at the "Prophetologion" as...
Oi! I need to learn to read more carefully. Mea culpa! ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has...
Father bless! I am afraid I was not aware of this melodic Prophetologion. At any rate my comment was not of scholarly type, just informative. Doing readings in...
Christopher and all: When looking at the fullness of the Russian practice consider the following: 1) The Russian all-night vigil, that is serving Matins the...
... JRS: My set (8 volumes, which I had rebound to make 4) began printing in 1939, then continued at intervals till the last section was printed in 1981. union...
... before ... Matins in ... JRS: Not really. One could claim that most details of divine worship are "an innovation", but in this case the innovation was a...
What about "plainchant" or "straight chant"? To a layman unfamiliar with different chant traditions, the musical chant to various tones and the reader's...
Exactly what I have found when switching from the Russian paradigm with its competing tendencies and jurisdictions- at least outside of Russia- and now at a...
Well, alas, "plainchant" is already spoken for also. In Western terminology, it is usually synonymous with "Gregorian," although it could also refer to such...
Basically, All you would need to do to modify this text is change the begining to "Blessed is our God..." change the epistle and Gospel readings to the same...
Panagiotis, let me raise the terminological issue again. What, in Greek, to you call reading in a conversational voice; what do you call the sort of liturgical...
In the rubrics that we follow for the Typika service in the absence of a priest (I am grateful to say, a very rare event), it says for the Gospel to be read...
... indicating the scriptural lections were intoned with a variety of melodic formulae and cadences in prescribed places, let me add that this is also the...
... by a priest. JRS: Outside of the Old Rite (where it makes up a regular part of the Hours before Liturgy), "Obednitsa", conducted by a priest, is usually ...
... JRS: It would be necessary to find out what "typicon" this rule is found in. There is no such provision in the traditional Typicon. In Christ Fr. John R....
Father John Shaw wrote, It would be necessary to find out what "typicon" this rule is found in. There is no such provision in the traditional Typicon. Father,...
... the ... JRS: One must remember that the services now taken as the basis for most Orthodox public worship, were developed in and for monasteries. There had...
Our choir director always simply called it chanting "straight" and my Greek priest refers to it as "intoning". On this thread there also seems to be a...
