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+++++++++++++++++++++ Troparion: A brief hymn commemorating a Saint or an significant
event, which is read or chanted daily in the services of the Orthodox Church.
Troparia and Kontakia are short anthems in rhythmical
prose, set to music, which express a succinct form of the significance
of a given Feast.... The service books of the Eastern
Church....which contain them give the varaible portions of the services
for the days indicated:
Triodion: from the Sunday of the Pharisee and the
Publican ( the last Sunday after Epiphany ) to Easter Eve,
inclusive;
Pentecostarian: from Easter
Sunday to the Sunday of All Saints ( which has the same place in the
Calendar as the Trinity Sunday of the West ), inclusive;
Parakletike or Oktoechoes: for the rest of the year.
It contains eight groups of offices, each one covering one complete week and
set in order to one of eight tones of the ...... ecclesiastical music;
each group, therefore occurs at eight-weekly intervals;
Menaion: in twelve volumes, one for each
calendar month -- the services for the fixed feasts and saints' days,
including also Christmas and Epiphany**
** The
highlighted explanations above are taken from A
Manual for Eastern Orthodox Prayers, St. Vladimir's Seminary
Press, Crestwood, New York, 10707, 1999, first published in
1945 in Great Britain by the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius
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