"To Thee We Sing" genre: Medieval
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	Bulgarian Chant, Tone Legetos.*** Well-known Greek protopsalt L.Angelopoulos gave invaluable help to the ensemble "Sretenye". Not only he supplemented the repertoire of the choir with a number of very rare ancient canticles, but also what is the most important he shared his knowledge of Byzantine singing characteristic features. Saint John the Damascene, who lived in the 8th century, established church "oktoechos" (eight tones) — common base of liturgical singing, consisting of eight tonal-melodic systems. This chant is performed in tone Legetos. It is very old, rare and unusual tone.
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	Story Behind the Song The true church singing is an integral part of the Church tradition. It comes into being in co-creativity of ascetics and the Holy Spirit, and it is not so much music as a kind of prayer. We can talk only approximately about the date and authorship of hymns represented on the disk. Some Greek and Bulgarian musicologists believe that Eastern Orthodox liturgical singing originates from the singing of levites in ancient Israel. Making its way with Christianity and changing in the light of national features, Eastern Orthodox (Byzantine) singing has begun church-singing culture of Georgia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Rus.

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