Various Artists - Sicily: Music for the Holy Week - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Various Artists - Country Girl Singing Sensation / Various [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/01/2013

'Play this record loud, take inspiration, dream dreams of the city and get a band together. Time's running out.' NME this is where it's all happening. It is pure excitement and inspiration.' Clash Messier than a night in with Pete Doherty.' Zooa Polaroid of the last year in a city this an important ' Drowned in Sound a perfect snapshot of a flicker in musical history reflecting an uncompromising scene rightly proud of it's independence' Xfm. Snapper. 2006.

According to ethnomusicologist Christian Poche, the Syrian Orthodox Church (also known as the Syriac Orthodox Church in English-speaking countries since 2000) is one of the oldest Christian churches of the Middle East. Founded in Antioch, the capital of the Roman province of Syria (and now Antakya, Turkey), the church's followers carried their beliefs throughout the Middle East and to the western coast of India. In it's liturgy, the church employs the Syriac language, an Aramaic dialect similar to that spoken by Jesus Christ and the Apostles. The liner notes offer a history of the church and it's musical traditions, with selections focusing on western Syrian singing.Poche claims the five oral traditions presented on this recording are Urfa (in Turkey), Inchthe most prestigious of the traditionsInch; Amid (now Diyarbakir), which has essentially disappeared; Mardin (in Aleppo); Tagrit (in Iraq); and Tur 'Abdin, which Inchreflects the golden age of Syriac.Inch the Syrian Orthodox Church uses an oktoechos (set of eight modes) for it's qinto (melodies), designating a specific mode for each Sunday and rising by one scale degree each week. These melodies are taken from the bet-gazo (treasure of melodies), a compilation of non-biblical texts used by the deacons.