Troparion Tis Litys - The Processional Chant in the Liturgical Practices of the Medieval Slavs
Troparion Tis Litys - The Processional Chant in the Liturgical Practices of the Medieval Slavs

Summary/Abstract: The paper concerns an early chapter in the history of medieval Slavic liturgy and music. Specifically, it addresses the appropriation of the Byzantine urban sessional liturgy in the period of the eleventh to fourteenth centuries. The author attempts to place select sung numbers in the context of the liturgical typikon (Great Church or Studite) in use among the medieval Southern and Eastern Slavs at this time. The particular focus is on the use of the Trisagion and the Kontakion for Palm Sunday with its apparently unique detachable refrain as preserved in the Slavic kondakaria. The author attempts to make the case that the Slavic practice mirrored that in use in Constantinople.

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