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The Greek Orthodox Experience
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N TRACK NAME LENGTH
1 The Great Doxology 7'40
2 The Thrice-Holy Hymn 6'19
3 The Cherubic Hymn 9'44
4 Psalm 145 3'19
5 Hymns from the Akathist to the Mother-of-God 11'12
6 Troparia and Kontakia for Christmas and Pentecost 7'57
7 A Litany from Christmas Vespers 3'16
8 Hymns at Great Friday Vespers 8'40
9 The Praises for Paschal Matins 15'42

 

The Greek Orthodox Experience - A Capella Choir, directed by Constantin Zorbas, sung in Greek.

The music of the Orthodox Church is based upon an ancient cycle of eight tones and the varied items on this disc have been selected from a series of recordings, made to demonstrate the richness of the tradition of Byzantine Chant, under the direction of Constantin Zorbas, Professor of Byzantine music and Head Chorister of Saint Panteleimon Acharnon Church in Athens, Greece. The music, which is both monophonic and unaccompanied, underlines and heightens the sacred texts, and the basic atmosphere of each tone is maintained by an underlying drone, called the "ison", which is usually held by a number of skilled singers, because this is not the easy task that it might appear at first hearing.

The notation, which governs the music, is in the form of signs placed around the words and is thus quite different from the Western European notation placed on one or two staves. It is probable that, at some point in the past, this notation arose from the improvised hand signals made by the leader of the singers, and it gives to the whole method of singing a great flexibility, subtlety and sensitivity in relation to the text.

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