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2026-04-20 14:27 UTC

@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

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@ossobuffo@deacon.social 2026-04-20 14:31

@lxak@goblin.technology Unfortunately, over many centuries of cultural suppression under various foreign overlords, much of the Georgian musical patrimony has been lost to time (much of it was/is transmitted orally). I have heard from folks that spent significant time in Georgia that the non-eucharistic services have long stretches in which the texts are simply read or intoned, since the music is no longer extant. Traditional Georgian chant is in three voices, generally sung by male ensembles except in women's monastic houses. But at Pascha everyone present in non-monastic churches will sing the Paschal troparion.

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@lxak@goblin.technology 2026-04-20 14:32

@ossobuffo@deacon.social I feel like I should add another treble line to make it a rare 5-parter like Fish Pond in the Christian Harmony! It's such a sweet tune. I'll send whatever my group comes up with once we do violence to it with repeats and fermata

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