Liturgy of the Coptic Orthodox Church: Christmas & Holy Week
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Label: Christophorus - Entree
Cat No: CHE01812
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 5th November 2012
Contents
Artists
Kathedralchor KairoArtists
Kathedralchor KairoAbout
St Mark apostle and evangelist was the founder of the Coptic Church and the first of an unbroken succession of 117 popes and patriarchs. When, in the year 68 AD, Mark was martyred in Alexandria, Anianos had already become bishop and the young church, then 26 years old, was already well organised.
Today serving solely liturgical purposes, the Coptic language has evolved out of the ancient Egyptian tongue, which dates back to the time of the Pharaohs. Musicological research shows that not only does the Coptic Church practise the oldest Christian form of music, it also possesses the oldest school of music in the world. By virtue of the conservative character of the Coptic Church, its tradition has been handed down orally from generation to generation by priests and cantors in wholly or only slightly changed form, so that its music has remained intact.
Not until well into the 20th century was Coptic music notated. In 1927 a devout and wealthy Copt invited the noted English musicologist Ernest Newland Smith (Oxford University; Royal Academy, London) to come to Egypt, to listen to the singers of the Coptic Church and to set their melodies down in notation for the first time in history.
Contents:
CD 1: Christmas
1. Hiteni efschi
2. Scherii
3. E parcenus
4. Pe gen mici
5. A pen chois
6. Agios o Theos
7. Alleluja
8. O seio aphschai
9. Pi hib emi
10. Hiteni eprisvija
11. Aphini naf
12. Alleluja ismu e efnoti
13. Ge ephis maro ot
14. Amen Alleluja
CD 2: Holy Week
1. Sok teti gom
2. Ke eperto
3. Chen efran in tetrias
4. O Monogenis
5. Golgatha
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