Approaches to Successive Technique: Early Russian Orthodox Scores
Approaches to Successive Technique: Early Russian Orthodox Scores

Summary/Abstract: Early Russian Orthodox polyphony has the same features as folk polyphony, but it is charged with the Orthodox symbolism. That is the reason why the notion of an ‘accidental vertical event’, correlative to the folk techniques, cannot be applied in the same way to the church music. The present study connects the main features of the vertical-horizontal flow of Orthodox chant. The successive technique is a resource that applies to the Eastern tradition in a specific way; the voices correlate, but do not complement each other. Orthodox polyphony is gradually striving to create a voice-connecting system of its own. The prevailing second-fourth-fifth vertical of the Early Russian troestrochie corresponds to antique church cryptography. Gradually it was replaced by the third-structure partes associated with the basic Christian symbol of the Trinity.

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