Even in Moscow Holiday Inn is leavin' the light on for ya'.
There are also people in Moscow who like such strange decor in/on their car.
So that Gabe would be jealous I stopped by this Old Believer (I say "Old Believer" and not "Old Rite" specifically because they're not in communion.) church today. There happened to be a service going on at the time so we stood for a while. There were about 4 women in attendance and then 3 or 4 women singing at the kliros. The singing (which they didn't do very much of at a canon was being read) sounded like a mix between Russian and Greek chant. The church inside was mostly frescoed but there were a lot of smaller, about 8x10, icons hanging on the walls and there were no electric lights.
You probably know this, but all of the Old Believers use Znamenny Chant or similar older style that does indeed sound like a mix between what we normally call Slavic and Byzantine chanting. Since they adhere to the rulings of the Stoglav Council, there's no polyphony or harmony. Some of their liturgical chanting uses the ison as well. Beyond that, I don't know much about it.
I didn't actually know that - I leave Old Believer lore up to you... All I know is that it didn't remind me of any of the Znamenny chant I've heard before (but it probably had something like polyphony in it).
The Old Believers are inclined to distinguish between *their* Znamenny and the Znamenny that came afterwards. There's no singlular tradition, and from what I know about the manuscript evidence, there's plenty of "wiggle room" in the final product. Actually, a brand new 2-CD set just got released by an Old Believer parish in Portland. There's audio samples on the page: http://synaxis.info/psalom/pages/CD/new_cd.html
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Jacob,
You probably know this, but all of the Old Believers use Znamenny Chant or similar older style that does indeed sound like a mix between what we normally call Slavic and Byzantine chanting. Since they adhere to the rulings of the Stoglav Council, there's no polyphony or harmony. Some of their liturgical chanting uses the ison as well. Beyond that, I don't know much about it.
I didn't actually know that - I leave Old Believer lore up to you... All I know is that it didn't remind me of any of the Znamenny chant I've heard before (but it probably had something like polyphony in it).
Jacob,
The Old Believers are inclined to distinguish between *their* Znamenny and the Znamenny that came afterwards. There's no singlular tradition, and from what I know about the manuscript evidence, there's plenty of "wiggle room" in the final product. Actually, a brand new 2-CD set just got released by an Old Believer parish in Portland. There's audio samples on the page:
http://synaxis.info/psalom/pages/CD/new_cd.html
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