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The meaning of the Church music and its greate hymnographers

Author(s): Domin Adam
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion
Published by: Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxă Alba Iulia
Keywords: Church music; christianity; Roman the Melod; Cosma the Melod; choral music; Church hymnography; musical types

Summary/Abstract: The meaning of the Church music and its greate hymnographers. Music is a common element of every tribe and every faith. Consist of body and soul, and for each of these two parties there is music. The spread of Christianity in the Hellenistic made the brilliant culture of Greece combines elements of folk music with its melos Jewish sacred space and give rise to hymnography quite remarkable. In the beginning Christianity has used in the biblical patterns of worship songs, but soon they felt the need to weigh its own source clean the soul of Christians. This new song has resulted in three musical genres- Poetic: Troparion, Condac and Canon, each developed in different periods and each with notable representatives, must remember that the first track and Roman the Melod and Cosma the Melod songs. In the periods of development of the Church activated melods and melurgs. Melods, in the beginning, they created both text and melody Choral, while melurgs songs created just for existing texts. Then it follows the post-Byzantine period (between the Conquest of Constantinople until 1814) and the hrisantic or modern customary for evelopers weigh church. Dynamic tradition of our Church is alive today than ever; this is proved by many songs and Christian hymns raised from pure souls, especially viewed in the Acatists of newest canonized saints.

  • Issue Year: XIV/2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 263-297
  • Page Count: 35
  • Language: Romanian
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