Right now the best explanation I can give for this is that they’re part of an ongoing effort. The effort is still taking shape. Comments are welcome.
Philoponoi
- Orthodox Scholars Initiative 9 April 2009 dangreeson
- Bock on Ehrman: “One has to wonder when an author admits to providing nothing new in a book what the motive is for writing” 2 April 2009 Richard Barrett
- “the New Humanism” 28 March 2009 dangreeson
- Design and Religion 26 March 2009 dangreeson
- Professor April DeConick: “Should the Historical Jesus matter to people of faith?” 18 March 2009 Richard Barrett
My LibraryThing
- Cicero: De Amicita Ap Selections by Patsy R Ricks 5 January 2008Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers (2006), Edition: Student, Paperback, 73 pages
- Latin-English Sunday Missal - The Ordinary of the 1962 Typical Edition (Latin-English Sunday Missal The Ordinary of the by Roman Catholic Books 5 January 2008Roman Catholic Books (2007), Paperback
- The Exeter Book by George P. Krapp 5 January 2008Columbia University Press (1936), Hardcover, 382 pages
- The Bible as Book by Kimberley Molinari 5 January 2008British Library Publishing Division (1998), Hardcover, 272 pages
- De amicitia : selections by Marcus Tullius Cicero 5 January 2008Wauconda, Ill. : Bolchazy-Carducci, c2006.
- Barefoot Contessa family style : easy ideas and recipes that make everyone feel like family by Ina Garten 5 January 2008New York : Clarkson Potter, 2002.
- A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature by Frederick W. Danker 5 January 2008Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2000.
- Reading Ovid : stories from the Metamorphōsēs by P. V. Jones 5 January 2008New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Holy image, hallowed ground : icons from Sinai by Robert S. Nelson 5 January 2008Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, c2006.
- Latin-English Sunday Missal - The Ordinary of the 1962 Typical Edition (Latin-English Sunday Missal The Ordinary of the by Roman Catholic Books 26 December 2007Roman Catholic Books (2007), Paperback
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Nice melody, You going to add a part or two?
Interesting question. Let us say I’m not sure it’s up to me to harmonize it — I think I might leave it to others to try if they want. Obviously there’s tonal movement implied throughout, but there’s part of me that says we need the library of tunes before we try to come up with a harmonic vocabulary.
Richard
Your “Gladsome Light” is missing a word: “of the immortal, heavenly, holy, blessed Father.”
Old version. Fixed.
Holy Crap! I’ve never seen anything quite like this blogsite. I’ve never even blogged! This is amazing!(I don’t get out much).
Richard, if I played these on a piano (I mean if this music were performed with equal temperament) would the tonality be right?
I’m very confused about this whole question with Orthodox music in general. I’ve been asked to be the choir director at my Orthodox church (we do mainly Obhikod, with a lot of contemporary stuff thrown in) but my musical background consists mainly of being a student (and teacher) of modern piano methods; plus, I sang in a really decent college-level Baptist choir. I don’t even know where to begin to access the more ancient or authentic ways of singing. My priest is a monk who knows a lot of music by memory but doesn’t have any theory.
I’m assuming you wrote this based on your studies of early music?
Love your blog!
I actually wrote these as an ongoing experiment in trying to write Orthodox music in an American vernacular musical idiom but with Byzantine influence. Think of a Shaker a-frame with an iconostasis, and you’ve got the right idea.
There’s a LOT to be confused about with respect to Orthodox music. E-mail me privately and let’s compare notes. I can see which way I might be able to help. richardtenor (AT) gmail. com.