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In this forum we haven’t been talking much about Traditional Theology of late, so I thought we might have a thread to talk about the musical heritage of traditional theology. @dzheremi - your church has Tasbeha, one of my favorite traditions of ancient hymnody (as far as ancient church music goes, I love Tasbeha, it, along with the Syriac Beth Gazo 8 tone system, the delightful fusion of Gregorian Chant and Byzantine Chant one finds in the idiosyncratic music of the Ambrosian Rite of Milan), and the polyphonic music of the Georgian church, is one of my four favorite forms of ancient Christian chant. @Paidiske - did i ever tell you how much I love Anglican chant, the way the Psalms are sung at Choral Evensong? @MarkRohfrietsch - I adore the motets and cantatas of JS Bach as well as his five Lutheran masses, and the music of other Lutheran composers such as Dietrich Buxtehude. I wish we had a Russian or Ukrainian or Bulgarian around so I could gush about how much I love the music of those three churches. Contemporary Greek Orthodox music by composers like Tikey Zes and Michaelides is exquisite. @hedrick - The contribution of early Calvinist Psalters in Geneva was huge; who doesn’t love the melody “The Old 100th”? I am desparately trying to find recordings of some forms of early Anglican, Presbyterian and Congregational church music, namely the Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter (Anglican), Lining Out (Presbyterian) and the Bay Psalter (Congregationalist, used in the early churches in New England).
The Ethiopian Church by the way has the oldest system of musical notation currently in use in the world. Their music is extremely complex and I find it beautiful and challenging.
My thought was maybe we could talk about the function of traditional sacred music in the liturgy and also post links to recordings on YouTube and elsewhere of particularly good church music. I tagged several of you because I either regard you as a friend or really admire your posts, and I thought you might enjoy this thread, as you have historically posted heavily in this forum, and of late it feels to me like we could be having more conversations about traditional Christianity in here, and a lot of recent threads in here you guys have not participated in, and those threads struck me as not really being in the same category with what we were talking about in this forum when I joined last year.
The Ethiopian Church by the way has the oldest system of musical notation currently in use in the world. Their music is extremely complex and I find it beautiful and challenging.
My thought was maybe we could talk about the function of traditional sacred music in the liturgy and also post links to recordings on YouTube and elsewhere of particularly good church music. I tagged several of you because I either regard you as a friend or really admire your posts, and I thought you might enjoy this thread, as you have historically posted heavily in this forum, and of late it feels to me like we could be having more conversations about traditional Christianity in here, and a lot of recent threads in here you guys have not participated in, and those threads struck me as not really being in the same category with what we were talking about in this forum when I joined last year.
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