Favorite Chant style

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Different Eastern traditions have different chant styles.
For instance, the Ruthenians have Prostopinije.
What are some of the chant styles used in Rites other than Byzantine Rites?
 
mgy100 said:
Different Eastern traditions have different chant styles.
For instance, the Ruthenians have Prostopinije.
What are some of the chant styles used in Rites other than Byzantine Rites?
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The Ukrainian and Russian traditions have exquisite 4 and 8 part harmonies. I love to listen to them…

Most of the time, the Ruthenian Prostopinije tones can be found as one of these lines.

However, my preference when in church is the Prostopinie.
 
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Gregorian chant. That existed long before the Schism.
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Nothing was mentioned about western chant styles nor any schism in the original post.

Back to meaningful posts that discuss Chants found in the Eastern Tradition.

Aramis, the chant style found in the UGCC and some Ukrainian Orthodox churches in the USA is just as powerful as Carpatho Plain Chant.

It’ll be neat to see what the chant styles are like outside of the Byzantine Rite traditions.
 
Gregorian chant. That existed long before the Schism.
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Which “schism”? Some Arians, neo-Arians, Manicheans and Jansenists all continued to use Gregorian. FDRLB
 
Most of the time, the Ruthenian Prostopinije tones can be found as one of these lines.
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I would disagree with “most of the time”. One could equally say the same of Galician samoylka or Kyivan chant. In fact one of the melodies in the new Ruthenian pew book (“Only-Begotten Son”) is actually a Galician samoylka melody.

And yes, as mgy100 well said, harmonized samoylka and Kyivan chant is indeed beautiful as we have it in the Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox churches.

Every particular Church also has its own hymnographic style. The Ethiopian Orthodox at our local parish have an incredible congregational chant; most do not even use prayer books. Men and women are seated on different sides of the church. A group of cantors at the front on the men’s side lead the chanting with sticks that have silver triangles at the top they call a sistrum; the cantors sway and hit the sticks according to the chant rythym. There is nothing like it I have ever seen or heard.
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Tradaitional Subcarpathian Rusyn Prostopinije when it is still sung in the original Church Slavonic musical setting.

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