Εις μνήμην Λυκούργος Αγγελόπουλου: Magister Scholae cantorum

What is always very strange with this Old Roman composition of the Improperia, that they chose a tune which is not typical for Good Friday, but rather the echos of the resurrection day, the sticheraric melos of plagios protos with the finalis on δ' w

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The Old-Roman Practice of Alleluia singing

According to Gregory the Great (letter to Bishop John of Syracuse, Oct. 598) the Roman habit to sing the alleluia was imported from Jerusalem during the time of Jerome and Pope Damasus. Already in 445 Pseudo-Sozomenos wrote about a touristic attracti

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