In the overwhelming majority of churches, I think, the Sedalny or Sessional Hymns are merely read. However, I recall them as being sung (on Sundays) in...
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Priest Seraphim Holland
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Mar 1, 1999 1:22 pm
... I have always heard them sung. I think years ago I heard them in the sticheric melodies, but we sing them in the troparic melodies, and that is my...
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Rev. John R. Shaw
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Mar 1, 1999 1:40 pm
In the overwhelming majority of churches, I think, the Sedalny or Sessional Hymns are merely read. However, I recall them as being sung (on Sundays) in...
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Dr. Elizabeth W. Riggs
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Mar 1, 1999 1:43 pm
Just a reminder. There is NO Choir rehearsal tonight. Ted and I are still "cripped up" and Fr. and Matushka are out of town. We will resume next week, and...
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damianj@...
Mar 1, 1999 2:19 pm
Dear Elizabeth, please e-mail me privately. I tried to send you a note last week and it "bounced back". I have a reply on that Sedalen "Thy Fatherly Embrace",...
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Fekula, Peter
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Mar 1, 1999 3:08 pm
The Tone 6 indication is curious. The hymn is a tone 8 hymn in Russian usage as well. In fact, whenever I've heard it sung simply, "by Tone," instead of...
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Malcolm Jenner
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Mar 1, 1999 3:21 pm
... My experience is that this sort of difference is quite common, and stems from the Greek terminology for the Tones, where Tones 5,6 & 8 are known, ...
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Serge Keleher
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Mar 1, 1999 3:41 pm
Ah, yes, the Passia. It may not be exactly Western Ukrainian in origin; it's possible that it developed in Belarus. In any case, the service is a substitute...
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Dr. Elizabeth W. Riggs
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Mar 1, 1999 4:12 pm
OOPs - I clicked on the wrong "choir" list! Please forgive me! Elizabeth Riggs ... eGroup home: http://www.eGroups.com/list/ustav Free Web-based e-mail groups...
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Fekula, Peter
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Mar 1, 1999 4:30 pm
Matushka asks an interesting question. In our parish, the only time we sing the refrains of a canon instead of reading them is during the Great Canon of St....
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FrJohnM@...
Mar 1, 1999 4:53 pm
In this case, the explanation doesn't make any sense, because tone 8 is Plagal 4, not vice versa. ... eGroup home: http://www.eGroups.com/list/ustav Free...
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ilector
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Mar 1, 1999 4:59 pm
Dear Matthew, In the older, pre-L'vov/Bakhmetev days, stichera and troparia in Tone VI were sung to exactly the same melody, viz. the one we nowadays use for ...
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ilector
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Mar 1, 1999 5:08 pm
Dear Father James, A counterpart of the Passia is served in a number of the Synod's parishes in Pennsylvania. The parishioners of those churches are ...
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ilector
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Mar 1, 1999 5:23 pm
Dear Peter, I rather suspect that the chanting of the Tone IV paschal hypacoï in Tone VIII has entered our current usage by way of the St. Petersburg capella...
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Dr. Elizabeth W. Riggs
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Mar 1, 1999 7:35 pm
<SNIP> I suppose I should check in here and explain that we use the Kievan Tone 6 Stichira melody for "In thee rejoiceth..." simply because that is how we knew...
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Daniel Olson
daniellector@...
Mar 1, 1999 7:35 pm
Since it many places it has become customary to serve the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts in the evening, I thought it would be beneficial to print out the...
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Fekula, Peter
pfekula@...
Mar 1, 1999 9:01 pm
It's never a good idea to make a categorical statement without checking its accuracy first. In a post last week I said that "The Orthodox Episcopate" (TOE) is...
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Matthew Williams
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Mar 1, 1999 9:03 pm
... I only wish I could get my hands on a Sputnik Psalomshchika so that I could open its pages... Matthew Williams ... eGroup home:...
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Rev. John R. Shaw
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Mar 1, 1999 10:24 pm
The least-known point about the refrains to be sung at a Canon at Matins, is that these are appointed to be from the Old Testament Canticles, just as on Lenten...
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Stephen Shott
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Mar 2, 1999 12:35 am
I have a few questions concerning the services for the Annunciation, and I would greatly appreciate any help. 1. In the SJKP calendar, for the canon in Matins,...
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Stephen Shott
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Mar 2, 1999 12:35 am
... This is interesting, because in the ROCA parishes in Berlin and Frankfurt, they always seem to use the tone II stichera melody for tone II troparia (and...
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Serge Keleher
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Mar 2, 1999 12:46 am
Those who enjoy hearing an entire Canon sung (troparia and all) with enthusiasm and gusto should attend a Greek church for the Akathistos to the Theotokos on a...
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belkoff@...
Mar 2, 1999 3:33 am
From Amy Belkoff at All Saints in Eastpointe Michigan At Matins for Lazarus Saturday, we are only doing one Canon per Ode. Is this how is goes? Ode I Canon I...
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ilector
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Mar 2, 1999 4:23 am
Dear Peter, Yes, the late Metropolitan did feel that the refrain "Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me" should not be used during Sunday services. No, his...
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ilector
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Mar 2, 1999 4:36 am
Dear Amy, Two canons appear in the Triodion for Lazarus Saturday. By rights, the order should be: Irmos of Canon I (composed by St. Theophanes the Branded) ...
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Carles, Trevor
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Mar 2, 1999 7:02 am
From: Deacon James Carles Sydney/Australia Greetings to all, I'm trying to track down an English translation of an Akathist that is, I think, entitled in...
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Malcolm Jenner
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Mar 2, 1999 8:53 am
... Plagal ... Perhaps I did not make myself entirely clear. My interpretation of what has happened is that certain hymns which were originally in Tone 8 (= ...
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Serge Keleher
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Mar 2, 1999 11:03 am
I'm not certain of the regulations of all the various jurisdictions. However, in time for Great Lent of 1969 (if I'm not mistaken) the Holy Synod of the...
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Malcolm Jenner
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Mar 2, 1999 11:19 am
... In Britain there was issued at that time a joint instruction to that effect coming from Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh (MP) and Archbishop Athenagoras of...
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FrJohnM@...
Mar 2, 1999 2:38 pm
It is interestingly theory. I am not sure that it is historically valid as it seems unlikely to me that the omission of the word "plagal" would be universal ...
