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Katja's avatar

I'm Orthodox, and kind of into music of all sorts, and in the 21 years since I converted, I've sung a lot of different Orthodox music. The Hymn of Kassiani is sung on Wednesday of Holy Week (https://orthodoxwiki.org/Hymn_of_Kassiani), so this year the churches that can will have it sung May 1. I say "who can" because every version I've seen is fairly hard, and people aren't used to it, so many times it just doesn't get sung. I don't know if you've ever visited an Orthodox Church, but the most common Liturgy done is the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. As he died in 407, this would already be used in your time frame. There are some minor things which have been tweaked or changed through the years, but as someone who is Orthodox, there is kind of a wonder involved with knowing that the way we worship has been the same for so long.

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Charlotte Pendragon's avatar

Thank you for sharing! You really did a deep dive research into this type of music. I will listen to some of these a little later today.

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