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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsByzantine Liturgical Music is like Gregorian chants on steroids.
It's like: "We can sing to God, or we can fuck your shit up. Your choice..."
Mme. Defarge
(8,028 posts)to my favorite DU drinking buddy! 🍷
Aristus
(66,341 posts)I'm absolutely entranced. I listen to it all day, every day. For me, it's not even the spiritual meaning. It's like traveling back in time to, like, the 10th Century or something. It's like time travel in a way that listening to a Mozart symphony from the 18th Century isn't. It's immediate, forceful, spellbinding...
Mme. Defarge
(8,028 posts)so do be careful, mon brave.
Aristus
(66,341 posts)I don't think any demon summoned by these guys would be brave enough to actually show up. I mean, these guys sound bad ass...
petronius
(26,602 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,686 posts)malthaussen
(17,194 posts)Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men;
preserve me from violent men,
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who plan evil things in their heart
and stir up wars continually.
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They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's,
and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah
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Guard me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked;
preserve me from violent men,
who have planned to trip up my feet.
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The arrogant have hidden a trap for me,
and with cords they have spread a net;[a]
beside the way they have set snares for me. Selah
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I say to the Lord, You are my God;
give ear to the voice of my pleas for mercy, O Lord!
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O Lord, my Lord, the strength of my salvation,
you have covered my head in the day of battle.
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Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked;
do not further their evil plot, or they will be exalted! Selah
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As for the head of those who surround me,
let the mischief of their lips overwhelm them!
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Let burning coals fall upon them!
Let them be cast into fire,
into miry pits, no more to rise!
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Let not the slanderer be established in the land;
let evil hunt down the violent man speedily!
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I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted,
and will execute justice for the needy.
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Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name;
the upright shall dwell in your presence.
-- Mal
Aristus
(66,341 posts)That's some real take-no-prisoners singing...
myccrider
(484 posts)that showcased the incredible acoustics in it. I think thats part of the bad ass sound here.
Thanks for this, I have and love Gregorian chant albums, Ill have to get this one, too. Im an atheist but I can enjoy beauty no matter where it comes from. The Parthenon and Stonehenge are gorgeous and impressive whether I believe in the goddess Athena or ancestor/solstice worship or not.
Aristus
(66,341 posts)It's how I discovered this stuff.
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/22/808404928/listen-the-sound-of-the-hagia-sophia-more-than-500-years-ago
That was great. That balloon pop was unbelievable. Thanks.
Aristus
(66,341 posts)The acoustics in the Hagia Sophia can make a balloon-pop sounds like an artillery blast. In a related article, I read that the duration of the acoustical resonance inside the Hagia is an astonishing seventeen seconds...
I listen to the "Lost Voices" album nearly every day. My car has a terrific sound system. I'll put on the album and just let that alien, entrancing sound just wash over me...
myccrider
(484 posts)I put on Gregorian chant, Mozart, Miles Davis, etc every once in a while for the wonderful feels I get from those other musical genres. This Byzantine/Hagia Sophia stuff is definitely going into my rotation.
Aristus
(66,341 posts)was just the rock and roll of the 18th Century.
Liking all kinds of music is cool...