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  2. Apolytikion - Wikipedia

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    The apolytikion of the Feast of the Nativity (December 25): . Your birth, O Christ our God, dawned the light of knowledge upon the earth. For by Your birth those who adored stars were taught by a star to worship You, the Sun of Justice, and to know You, Orient from on High.

  3. Katavasia - Wikipedia

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    A Romanian Orthodox Horologion opened to the Katabasiae of the Nativity of the Lord.. Katabasia or Katavasia (Greek καταβασία, from καταβαίον, "descend") is a type of hymn, and the last troparion of an ode of a canon, chanted in the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite.

  4. O Glyki Mou Ear - Wikipedia

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    O Glyki Mou Ear (Greek: Ω Γλυκύ Μου Έαρ) [1] is a religious Extended play album by popular Greek artist Glykeria. It was released in April 2006 by Eros Music Greece and was released to coincide with Easter of that year. The songs included on the album are Greek Orthodox hymns which are sung on Good Friday of Holy Week. The music is ...

  5. Byzantine music - Wikipedia

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    Byzantine music (Greek: Βυζαντινή μουσική, romanized: Vyzantiné mousiké) originally consisted of the songs and hymns composed for the courtly and religious ceremonial of the Byzantine Empire and continued, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in the traditions of the sung Byzantine chant of Eastern Orthodox liturgy.

  6. These Popular Easter Songs, Hymns, and Albums Will Make ... - AOL

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    Rejoice on March 31 with Easter songs and albums. Find popular Easter hymns, contemporary Christian and gospel favorite, and traditional Easter songs for church

  7. Sacred Treasures: Choral Masterworks from Russia - Wikipedia

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    The 1998 compilation album is composed of choral pieces from the Russian Orthodox Church. Track listing. No. Title

  8. Kassia - Wikipedia

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    Among the other hymns she composed are the following: The Doxastichon chanted at the Vesperal Divine Liturgy on Christmas Eve [14] Numerous hymns in honor of saints found in the Menaion (fixed cycle of the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar), such as Feast of the Nativity of the Forerunner, 24 June. [citation needed]

  9. Octoechos (liturgy) - Wikipedia

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    The Hesperinos psalm (Ps. 140) in Romanian printed in Cyrillic types is often used as a sticheron avtomelon in echos protos (glas a') (Anastasimatar, Vienna 1823). Many hymns in the Octoechos, such as Kathismata, Odes, and Kontakia are set in a strict meter—a fixed number of syllables with particular stress patterns, consistent throughout multiple verses.