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Ukraine. Belarus. Soviet Union. v. t. e. Russian Liturgical Music is the musical tradition of the Russian Orthodox Church. This tradition began with the importation of the Byzantine Empire's religious music when the Kievan Rus' converted to Orthodoxy in 988. [1]
Znamenny Chant is a unison, melismaticliturgicalsinging that has its own specific notation, called the stolpnotation. The symbols used in the stolpnotation are called kryuki(‹See Tfd›Russian: крюки, 'hooks') or znamëna(‹See Tfd›Russian: знамёна, 'signs'). Often the names of the signs are used to refer to the stolpnotation.
The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (Russian: Литургия святого Иоанна Златоуста, Liturgiya svyatogo Ioanna Zlatousta) is an a cappella choral composition by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Op. 41, composed in 1878. [ 1 ] It consists of settings of texts taken from the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, the most ...
Obikhod. The Obikhod (Обиход церковного пения) is a collection of polyphonic Russian Orthodox liturgical chants forming a major tradition of Russian liturgical music; it includes both liturgical texts and psalm settings. The original Obikhod, the book of rites of the monastery of Volokolamsk, was composed about 1575.
Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (‹See Tfd› Russian: Литургия Иоанна Златоуста), is a 1910 musical work by Sergei Rachmaninoff, one of his two major unaccompanied choral works (the other being his All-Night Vigil). The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is the primary worship service of the Eastern Orthodox ...
The All-Night Vigil (Pre-reform Russian: Всенощное бдѣніе, Vsénoshchnoye bdéniye; Modern Russian: Всенощное бдение) is an a cappella choral composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff, his Op. 37, premiered on 10/23 March 1915 in Moscow. The piece consists of settings of texts taken from the Russian Orthodox All-night ...
To understand the Russian Orthodox method of bell ringing, it is necessary to recognize a few items of terminology. The bells in an Orthodox bell tower (zvonnitsa) are organized into three groups: Zazvonny — the smallest, or soprano bells. Podzvonny — the middle, or alto bells. Blagovestnik — the largest, or bass bells.
In Russian Orthodox churches, the kontakion is traditionally sung during funerals and memorial services, and on Parents’ Sabbath (Russian Wikipedia article) when the departed are commemorated. [19] It was translated into English from Russian by William John Birkbeck , an English theologian and musicologist who studied Russian church music in ...