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Just throwing my two cents in here about music history if anyone is interested. Mononphonic chant is far older than polyphonic chant. The oldest existing evidence we have for Western polyphony is from the 10th century.
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1. the liturgy that is notated was not done by Newlandsmith but by Margaret Toth and Martha Roy2. most of the library of congress collection has been digitized, it was curated by Carolyn Ramzy, here is the link. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/ht…
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I'm very happy cyril that you are reading this book, both Carolyn Ramzy and Mother Lois Farag are great scholars. The octoechos is a term in music theory that discusses the eight "church" modes, it is most closely associated with the Byzantine rite…
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Hey there, In Kallistos Ware's book The Orthodox Church he says that the Orthodox address St. Mary as immaculate because she lived a perfect life on earth, not using it to refer to the immaculate conception. His explanation is on pages 259 if you h…
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I couldn't figure out how to get the coptic font to work on the forum, apologies, if you copy and paste the words in a word document and change the font they should be just fine. prayer - pi`slyl (pieshleel) incense - pi`c;oinoufi (pi esthoino…
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here is a link to the liturgy with musical notation done by Ernest Newlandsmith, the guy mentioned in the book. http://www.amazon.com/Coptic-Orthodox-Liturgy-Basil-Transcription/dp/9774244370/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311958474&s…
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is there a recording of the long way to say this hymn out there somewhere?
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can you tell me where you watched this video?
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The doxologies are said after the commemoration while the psalis are said after the fourth ode. No, you don't have to say both you can say whichever one you want, most people that I know that say tasbeha will skip the doxologies.
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the kind of fast they are referring to is when you don't eat anything at all, not the kind of fast that we do where we just cant eat meat.
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there are a lot of shere ni maria's, and if you are looking for the words for it, it is the same hymn as the shere ni maria that we say at the beginning of the mass, you can find those in the mass of the higher institute of coptic studies' version o…
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lots of saints in our church have done things similar to what she did one monk, i cant remember who was complemented on being beautiful so he went and stayed in a salt water lake for 6 hours until his skin became brown and leathery.