service in the Orthodox Church influences all the senses: the icons on the vision, the singing and reading comprehension, burn incense on the sense of smell, and the eating of holy bread, shrines taste.This is important all counts.In the temple, in worship, people live a full life.Service in the church goes on daily, weekly and annual cycle.
person who is not familiar with the Orthodox Church, the service seems to be monotonous, quite the same.But the difference is certainly there.
Each service consists of a constant and a variable part.Constant hymns - is, for example, the Cherubic Hymn at each Liturgy.It sounds at every service (except for a few times a year) and remains unchanged.Cherubic wrote some of the composers and their creations also sometimes performed.But it usually takes a decision choir director, it is not regulated by the Charter: to sing today to Cherubic Gretchaninov, Tchaikovsky or just some monastic chant.
Virtually all hymns that are executed and you know - it's here are unchanging part of worship.Changes frequently take into account:
- day of the week (each day of the week - the memory of special events);
- number (the memory of the saints to eat every day);
- presence of Lent, now or in the near future (including 4 weeks of preparation for Lent, Easter "controls" about six months).
Church chants painted daily charter.Regent has been in this experienced man, having special education.Full service is the same throughout the year only once in 518 years.That is, even if you go to all the services, hymns not repeat twice the same way throughout the life of a dozen generations.But, of course, full respect for all the charter is extremely time-consuming, this is possible only in the monasteries and in the world, people will not sustain such long service.
Notes motets divided into eight tones.The voice - it's just the melody, the melody, which are sung troparia given day.Reads alternate for weeks: that is repeated approximately every six to eight weeks.
not always specific parish can afford gorgeous chorus.In the central metropolitan councils often sing professional singers, and in small churches on the outskirts of the congregation is usually a little familiar with musical notation.Professional singing is certainly more impressive, but often these singers - unbelievers, and after church hymns - prayer.
What is more important: a beautiful voice in the choir or chorus prayer spirit - must decide rector.Recently, there was even a fashion hymns.Their radio, sing in the halls of the Philharmonic and the chapel, you can buy a recording.
Well, that ecclesiastical art attracts people, but listening to these records is often quite nemolitvennym superficial.But hymns most intimate moments of worship.What to do with the churched person: to pray or enjoy the voices?Or remember that this is no service at all, and everything that happens in the hall for concerts - only the music, but not a prayer?Therefore, not all Orthodox Christians attend these concerts and all are fans of this art.
