Very excellent brother. I’m a Youth Director of an Antiochian Orthodox parish near Houston, and I’m about to share this with our youth group who will chanting the Sunday Liturgy Epistles this month, for our youth month. Thank you 🙏☦️
This is a wonderful video Michael. Should be required viewing for anyone reading the epistle. What I really liked about it is the sung (read) examples of what is right and wrong; one simply cannot get that from a text. Bravo.
Christ is among us. God bless you. A chanter friend of mine sent me your website which, after a few hours, led me to this video. You have a gift. Panagia save you.
I read the epistle in my OCA parish, I'm not a great singer but I'm -okay-. I want to do better but I don't know if I can do this. Any tips for the Russian style?
”In Churches of the Slavic tradition, the Epistle is chanted in elevating monotone: the first phrase is read at a single, low tone, with emphasis on the final word, the second phrase and subsequent phrases are read at ascending, higher tones, up to the final phrase, which is read extra slowly and with emphasis, to draw attention to its completion.”
It depends. The Russian style of ascending half steps is essentially everyone 1-2 sentences you ascend chromatically, so you have to start really low. As you ascend, you ascend by half step on the last syllable of the sentence. The important thing to keep in mind is the pacing, it is reading, so still speak as if there is a narrative
