Post #2737872
2026-04-20 06:25 UTC
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@ossobuffo@deacon.social 2026-04-20 14:27
@lxak@goblin.technology Never mind, I see that this is the same as Vlad's version, except you have pitched it up a whole step and swapped tenor and soprano lines. I have put your version back into the key of G and made the notes round so they won't confuse our parish choir members (!?!), and I am giving this to our interim choir director for immediate consumption (our main choir director is spending a semester in Romania teaching violin as a Fulbright scholar). We sing this text at every service until Ascension (the 40th day after Pascha). Here's the same text sung in Georgian, to several regional melodic/harmonic variants. Georgian chant is the oldest polyphonic musical form in eastern Christendom, and may even predate Western church polyphony! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTWVg3jWw6k Here's a Russian ensemble singing Vlad's arrangement in heavily accented English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLAV_X5EwGk