Armenian chant
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Armenian chant
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Armenian chant is the melismatic monophonic chant used in the liturgy of the Armenian Apostolic Church and the Armenian Catholic Church. Armenian chant, like Byzantine chant, consists mainly of hymns. The chants are grouped in a system of eight modes called oktoechos. The oldest hymns were in prose, but later versified hymns, such as those by Nerses Shnorhali, became more prominent. The official book of hymns, the sharakan, contains 1,166 hymns (Šaraknoc'). The earliest surviving manuscripts wit
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Chant used in Armenian Christian liturgy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_chant
date created:
2006-05-01T16:03:07Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T20:10:28Z
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