me too my brother I am hoping for that mercy...and for the rest of us because i don't think in the reality anyone need to be lost.Christ wants every body nobody in this earth it loves like him... nobody greetings from Greece
You should listen Romanian Patriarchal Cathedral Choir "Tronos" performing "The Lord's Lamentations" (Jesus Christ's funeral service held in the Romanian Orthodox Church on the day of Holy Friday, before the great Feast of Pascha).
I know it's a little early to be hearing this at this time of year, and I do know what the words mean, but for some reason I always have (the melody) stuck in my head year-round. I am a musician by God's gifts, and this tune itself says it all, with or without words... That is, the notes/sounds themselves carry meaning, and, arranged in this special way, they carry 10× significance without needing to be translated. (To my untrained ears, this actually sounds kind of weird in English; I am used to hearing it in Greek (or Slavonic), but the feeling of it is the same.)
Thanks for putting this up. It is good you have the text as a comment. It would be great to have the English lyrics on the screen, too. It is hard to make out the words in certain places.
Casually, when people say Christian they refer to Protestants. Technically someone described as Christian could be either Protestant, Catholic, or Orthodox. In this sense, an Orthodox Christian is one who follows Orthodoxy. Notice also the "O" in Orthodox is capitalized to mean the religion, versus a lower case "o" referring to ones devoutness. An Orthodox Christian = one who follows the Orthodox religion. An orthodox Christian = a devout Christian of either Protestant or Catholic religion.
Irene Jessi I see that in 3 years no one has attempted to answer your question... It's not a bad question; there is indeed a way to accurately notate Byzantine chant, but it is extremely esoteric and you'd need to go to a monestary to learn it properly... that is probably not feasible for you, so, if there is/was a need in your local Church for the "sheet music", you have everything you need to make it happen! Please, invent a better way to convey these sounds to your future brethren and sistren with modern ink and paper/computers... You can do it! I expect to be notified of your success... +++
How does one express (in the standard Western musical system) a note that "doesn't exist" (in the Western musical scheme)? Diacritical marks? Special "extra-musical" instructions? How does one express the unearthly and sublime subtleties of the Octoechos through the foreign medium of standard Western notation? It's impossible, I'm afraid.
Irene Jessica our local church has a grievous lack of solid "ison" singers... I want to help, but I guess I'm not "holy" enough to sing... Somehow, "Holy singer + bad voice = good", and "Sinful singer + good voice = bad"... We know this is nonsense, but sometimes the music is so frightfully bad that I just wanna interrupt them and say, "STOP! YOU ARE DOING IT WRONGLY!"
geokonn that's true. But it's a very good effort. Greek after all is a hard language to learn so it's better those songs spread in some universal language
