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Russian Orthodox Liturgy

I found on Internet an interesting article written by Urko Sangroniz would like to present here. Spectra is dedicated to the music of the Orthodox liturgy, as I know from my experience, always attracts great interest to foreigners visiting Russian churches.

Music from the Orthodox liturgy is written to be sung by a choir a cappella. The faithful can not participate in the musical performance of songs, as these are reserved for a choir to sing properly trained.

participating in the Liturgy past two choirs, one against the other, the first singing in Greek while the latter answered him in Old Slavonic. This practice began to disappear to make way for the present, in which a chorus that sings only in Russian is responsible for interpreting the music during the liturgy.

On the other hand, the use of musical instruments during the celebration of religious services is strictly prohibited. This prohibition is rooted in the ancient customs of the early Christians: they considered music as a kind of divine gift and as such could not be "contaminated" with the instrument emerged from the hand of man. Otherwise would have been nothing short of a sacrilege, so I only used during the celebrations the song was religious. Some argue, however, that this practice meets practical reasons. In any case, whether religious or practice, the truth is that it is a custom adopted by the Orthodox religion.

is why in the Byzantine basilicas and churches no bodies. This helped the song and polyphony were developed greatly, achieving a wide variety of melody, harmony, and timbre, not to mention the large number of effects achieved.

There is also an element that makes this music unique and unrepeatable, deep bass, called "oktavisty" in Russian. I should mention that the natural tessitura of the major voices in Russia is the bass-baritone, and it is this voice that has traditionally been more important in music literature, quite the opposite in Europe, where the music is clearly written for showcasing high-pitched voices .

N. Yaroshenko. Choir boys trained

Thanks to its wide tessitura grave and its potential in this area, deep bass can continuously sing an octave below the bass voice to use, hence its name ("octave") . The effect achieved by these voices is very similar to the pedal organ. Music Russian religious is particularly compact and pasted thanks to these marvelous voices, and have always attracted the attention of Western musicians, Berlioz and Schumann, in their trip to Russia, were fascinated with these voices to hear the choir of the Imperial Chapel St. Petersburg.

Choral music of the Orthodox liturgy was to develop to the point that at the end of s. Nineteenth and early twentieth century church services were nothing short of choral concerts with soloists of the great Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin, a singer with a global reputation in his time. All this development is stopped short by the arrival of the Revolution in 1917. Video REJOICE



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