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Kanon Pokajanen is a 1997 composition by Arvo Pärt for four-part choir.The text is the "Canon of Repentance to Our Lord Jesus Christ", an Orthodox hymn.The text is sung in Church Slavonic and following the tradition of Russian sacred choral music, it is sung a cappella.
A biblical canon is a set of texts (also called "books") which a particular Jewish or Christian religious community regards as part of the Bible. The English word canon comes from the Greek κανών kanōn, meaning 'rule' or 'measuring stick'. The use of canon to refer to a set of religious scriptures was first used by David Ruhnken, in the ...
Canon (Greek: κανονικός, romanized: kanonikós) is a Christian title usually used to refer to a member of certain bodies in subject to an ecclesiastical rule.
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree (also known as Apple Tree and, in its early publications, as Christ Compared to an Apple-tree) is a poem, possibly intended for use as a carol, written in the 18th century. It has been set to music by a number of composers, including Jeremiah Ingalls (1764–1838), Elizabeth Poston (1905–1987) and John Rutter.
A Romanian Orthodox Horologion opened to the Katabasiae of the Nativity of the Lord.. Katabasia or Katavasia (Greek καταβασία, from καταβαίον, "descend") is a type of hymn, and the last troparion of an ode of a canon, chanted in the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite.
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A canon (Greek: κανών, romanized: kanōn) is a structured hymn used in a number of Eastern Orthodox services. It consists of nine odes , based on the Biblical canticles . Most of these are found in the Old Testament , but the final ode is taken from the Magnificat and Song of Zechariah from the New Testament .
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