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Hymnography: Traditional Chant Genres

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HYMNOGRAPHY

Introduction: Traditional Melodic Genres

1. Psalmodic or Stichologic Genre

2. Sticheraric Genre
The 3 Classes of Melodic Forms for Stichera:
Idiomela (Samoglasny)
Automela (Samopodobny)
Prosomoia (Podobny)

3. Hiermologic Genre

4. Canonarchal/Responsorial Genre

5. Papadic Genre

6. Common Chants

7. Anomalistic Chants

8. Ecphonesis

9. Paraliturgical Singing

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9. Paraliturgical Singing

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Spiritual (Non-liturgical) Songs in Orthodox Folk Cultures

  • Carpatho-Rusyn and Ukrainian Koliadki, etc.
  • Old Believer Spiritual Verses
  • Romanian Colinde
  • Greek Kalenda

Russian Folk Music topics:

  • historical overview
  • vocal styles, oral tradition
  • regional styles
  • byliny, stariny (epics, epic cycles)
  • skomorokhi, entertainers
  • musical instruments

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BIBLIOGRAPHY: Paraliturgical Singing

  • Bibliography compiled by Dr. Stephen Reynolds, Nikita Simmons, and others.

A) Greek Kalenda

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B) Romanian Colinde

Lipovan, Anastasie. Răspunsuri liturgice si colinde pe 1-2 voci pentru uzul scolilor primare. Arad, 1912.

Lugojan. 24 Colinde redactate pt 2-3 voci. Arad: Editura Diecezană, 1940.

________. Şaptezeci Cântări religioase cum se cântă în Eparhia Aradului. Arad: Editura diecezană, 1942.

________. Colinde. Coruri mixte. 1943.

C) Southwestern Russian Pisni

Богогласникъ.

  • Published at Počajêv: 1790; 1806; 1821; 1825.
  • At Kyjiv: Kievo-Pečers’ka Lavra, 1825.
  • At Ľvôv: 1850; 2nd edn, 1886.
  • At Moscow: 1900 or 1902.

Anonymous. Церковні Пісни з нотами. Winnipeg: Naklad Ukraïns’koï Knyharni, 1923. 198 pp. A collection of hymns in two parts. Apparently this is a reprint of a collection published in Europe, with an imprimi potest from the Ľvôv Metropolitanate dated 1909.

Grodnenskij Ėparchiaľnyj Učiliščnyj Sovĕt. Гродненскій Богогласникъ: Собраніе гимновъ и набожникъ Пѣснопѣній съ присовокупленіемъ краткаго историчнаго очеркъ Православія въ предлахъ нынѣшей Гродненскoй Губерніи и Житія св[ятаго] преподобно-мученика Аѳанасіи (Филиповича). 2nd edn. Grodna: Gubernskaja Tipografija, 1914. 3 independently-paginated parts: essay & life of the saint, 64 pp.; hymns in 3- and 4-part settings, 56 pp; texts of further hymns, without notes, 17 pp. Text in Slavonic, round notation.

Kyprijan, [o. I.]. Партитура спѣвовъ церковнихъ. Ľvôv, 1882.

Lucyk, Feofil. Зборникъ церковно-народныжъ Пѣсенъ. Peremyšľ: Džulynskyj, 1902. 32 pp. A pamphlet containing eight hymns in four-part settings.

Matjuk, Viktor. Співаникъ церковно-народный для шкілъ нарондныхъ. Ľvôv, 1911.

Papp, Štefan. Grekokatolicki Duchovňi Pisňi / Grékokatolícke Duchovné Piesne. Prešov: Greko-Katolickij Ordinariat, 1969. 195 pp. Hymns in Ukrainian/Rusyn – really a mixed language, in Latin letters (Slovak orthography), monophonic, round notation.

[unidentified]. Церковні Пісни, 125. 5th edn. Žovka: Pečatnja Oo. Vasylijan, 1926. 358 + x pp. Hymns in two parts, in Ukrainian, including many compositions by members of the Basilian Order. My copy is obviously a photo-reprint, but with no information about the publisher.

D) Ukrainian Koljadki

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E) Russian Spiritual Verses (Духовные стихи)

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