{"id":1211,"date":"2020-06-06T14:49:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T13:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/databassist.com\/music\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2020-06-06T16:19:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T15:19:26","slug":"sing-to-the-life-giving-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/databassist.com\/music\/archives\/1211","title":{"rendered":"‘Sing to the life-giving Trinity’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After Pentecost, on Trinity Sunday the Christian Church globally celebrates the Holy Trinity: the belief in one God in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. This is the central tenet that unites all the orthodox Christian denominations across both Eastern Christianity and Western Christianity: first adopted at the fourth-century councils of Nicaea and Constantinople, the doctrine of Trinitarianism has ever since been affirmed in the Nicene Creed and other statements of faith. Trinitarian theology is particularly emphasized in the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom<\/em>, which since the fifth century has remained the principal liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the ordinary used on most occasions when the Eucharist is celebrated. Some of the 15 sections, notably the Creed, the Sanctus and the Lord’s Prayer, are familiar to us in the West from the Mass and Holy Communion, while others — including the Cherubikon<\/em> (Hymn of the Cherubim) — are not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Normally sung to traditional chants in the Church Slavonic language, the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom<\/em> was for many centuries hardly ever set to special, composed music in multiple vocal parts; in Russia, that required the approval of the Imperial Chapel, rarely given. The setting of 1878 by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky circumvented that rule and thereby instigated a whole new tradition in Russian sacred music. He composed and published it without permission, causing it to be banned at first, sparking off a legal dispute that was finally resolved in the publisher’s favour. Since then many settings have been composed, from Rimsky-Korsakov’s of 1883 onwards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here we sample two of the most loved sections of Tchaikovsky’s setting: the Cherubikon<\/em> (equivalent to the Western Offertorium<\/em>) that precedes the Eucharistic Prayer and the ‘Our Father’ that follows it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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6. Hymn of the Cherubim<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We who mystically represent the Cherubim,\nand who sing to the Life-Giving Trinity the thrice-holy hymn,\nlet us now lay aside all earthly cares\nthat we may receive the King of all,\nescorted invisibly by the angelic orders.\nAlleluia.<\/font><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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