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Znamenny chant
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre
Znamenny chant · When the Kievan Rus' adopted Christianity from Byzantium in 988, Greek church chants came with it. Russian singers made of them a monophonic chant of their own, named after the znamena or kryuki: hook-shaped signs that do not indicate individual notes but melodic turns that the singer knows by heart. The melodies are ordered in eight church modes. After the church reforms of Patriarch Nikon in the seventeenth century, it was above all the Old Believers who preserved this centuries-old chant.
Listening
Listening tip. Ex Libris sings a troparion for the feast of the Trinity in the old znamenny style. All the voices sing one melody together. Where do they stretch a single syllable over a whole series of notes?
Troparion van de Heilige Drie-eenheid · Ex Libris Ensemble & Daniil Sayapin, 2020
Thou Art Our Joy · Sretenije, 1999
We Praise You (znamenny) · Choir of the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Paris, 1993
See also
- Ex Libris Ensemble & Daniil Sayapin
- Sretenije
- Choir of the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Paris
- Byzantine chant
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