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It’s Tone 6 Sticheron melody, but I can’t quite understand them.

It’s probably the hymn from Sunday Matins Having beheld the Resurrection of Christ…
 
bkovacs said:
I know this is Byzantine Chant, but what piece is it.
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Very Beautiful, I love the Byzantine (Eastern) Tradition.

One question that came up to mind:

Any reason why they do the sign of the cross backwards? (I mean, it seems backwards to me but to them, my sign of the cross is backwards). Just wondering.
 
M0nkey said:
Very Beautiful, I love the Byzantine (Eastern) Tradition.

One question that came up to mind:

Any reason why they do the sign of the cross backwards? (I mean, it seems backwards to me but to them, my sign of the cross is backwards). Just wondering.
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Bede in his letter to Bishop Egbert advises him to remind his flock “with what frequent diligence to employ upon themselves the sign of our Lord’s cross”, though here we can draw no inferences as to the kind of cross made. On the other hand when we meet in the so-called “Prayer Book of King Henry” (eleventh century) a direction in the morning prayers to mark with the holy Cross “the four sides of the body”, there is a good reason to suppose that the large sign with which we are now familiar is meant.

At this period the manner of making it in the West seems to have been identical with that followed at present in the East, i.e. only three fingers were used, and the hand traveled from the right shoulder to the left. The point, it must be confessed, is not entirely clear and Thalhofer (Liturgik, I, 633) inclines to the opinion that in the passages of Belethus (xxxix), Sicardus (III, iv), Innocent III (De myst. Alt., II, xlvi), and Durandus (V, ii, 13), which are usually appealed to in proof of this, these authors have in mind the small cross made upon the forehead or external objects, in which the hand moves naturally from right to left, and not the big cross made from shoulder to shoulder. Still, a rubric in a manuscript copy of the York Missal clearly requires the priest when signing himself with the paten to touch the left shoulder after the right. Moreover it is at least clear from many pictures and sculptures that in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the Greek practice of extending only three fingers was adhered to by many Latin Christians. Thus the compiler of the Ancren Riwle (about 1200) directs his nuns at “Deus in adjutorium” to make a little cross from above the forehead down to the breast with three fingers". However there can be little doubt that long before the close of the Middle Ages the large sign of the cross was more commonly made in the West with the open hand and that the bar of the cross was traced from left to right.
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I know this is Byzantine Chant, but what piece is it. Is it from the Liturgy etc.

**BTW, this is not really Byzantine, but Russian, specifically Kievan chant.

There is actually a very wide variety of chant in the churches of the Byzantine tradition.**
 
bpbasilphx said:
It’s Tone 6 Sticheron melody, but I can’t quite understand them.

It’s probably the hymn from Sunday Matins Having beheld the Resurrection of Christ…
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I believe so, as well. But likewise, the words are muddled.

I was able to understand a couple of words…
narod (people)
tserkov pravoslavnij (orthodox church)
 
bpbasilphx said:
It’s Tone 6 Sticheron melody, but I can’t quite understand them.

It’s probably the hymn from Sunday Matins Having beheld the Resurrection of Christ…
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I don’t speak a lick of Russian but that is probably the most well known troparia sung in that tone.

Yours in Christ
Joe
 
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I was able to understand a couple of words…
narod (people)
tserkov pravoslavnij (orthodox church)**

In that case, it’s not Having beheld…
 
It is a sticheron (sung in the sixth tone (Kiev chant)) from the service honouring the wonderworking ikon of the Dormition of the Theotokos which is kept within the Pskovo-Pecherskii (Pskov Caves) monastery. The ikon is seen in the video, being carried in procession.
 
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