CD - ROM "My voice will you hear..."
Creator: MULTIMEDIA STUDIO - YAROSLAV-THE-WISE NOVGOROD STATE UNIVERSITY
Description:
This unique CD-ROM is the first about Russian choral music, Eastern Orthodoxy priceless heritage. It presents a many-sided review of Orthodox Russian Culture reflected in music, demonstrates the spirit of the Russian people.
Church singing accompanies Russians through their lives. The "Psalter" was their first guide.
And now we can evaluate the great significance of Russian choral music in the development of World Culture
“Russian orthodox hymnody”
From this section you will know many interesting facts about the establishment of Orthodox Church singing in connection with the adoption of Christianity in Russia.
You will know that the "angelic" singing that our ancestors heard during a liturgy in Constantinople, so enraptured them that they claimed not to know whether they were on Earth or in Heaven. Nowadays Orthodox Russia has gained an experience of thousand years old of singing a cappella since no musical instrument can surpass the human voice in its influence upon people. The section will demonstrate the stages of Church singing formation: Znamenny, Kievan and others chants, choral music, sacred verses, psalms, canticles etc. You will see that the formation of Russian Orthodox Choral Music was a rather complicated process. Though it was influenced by The Polish, Italian and other musical cultures, the "return" to the old Russian choral traditions in 19th century was inevitable.
The Russian Orthodox Church music still inspires our great composers including S.Rakhmaninov and P.Chaykovsky.
“Russian Orthodox ecclesiastical hymns”.
You will know many interesting facts about the origin, history, essence and meaning of Orthodox feasts. Apart from this, the section provides a detailed explanation of the divine liturgy, describing this charming procedure. Included on this CD are the full texts of the “Divine liturgy” and other enrapturing hymns and choral compositions
“Sacred Music Composers”
In this section you know about the remarkable people who played important roles in the establishment and formation of ancient Russian Orthodox choral music and see a unique collection of fascinating photographs many of which may be found only in library funds of the Ecclesiastical Academy in St. Petersburg.
“Church Slavonic language Dictionary” will open one of the pages of Russian Orthodox culture to you.
“Church Music terms vocabulary” compiled specially for this CD-ROM, having no other analogues will not only explain the definitions of terms used in liturgy to you but will also provide a complete research on different aspects of Church singing.
“Collection of Sheet Music of sacred music”
Musicians may be interested in the section devoted to sheet music where you could read music listening to the most ancient hymns of different styles but also sing from the music. These 19 Old Russian Orthodox hymns makes this CD a unique encyclopaedia of Russian Musical Culture.
CD-ROM XA reliable technology will enable you to enjoy this incredible church music even on CD-player.
We hope that this work will help you in the course of study History, Culture, Musicology The material skilfully chosen and artfully performed reveals the unique traditions of Orthodox Russian Culture reflected in music and demonstrates all the historical periods of its formation. It may also be used for lectures.
System requirements:
486DX33
OS: WIndows
8 Mb RAM,
16-bit sound card with stereo speakers,
SVGA-video adapter 1024*768, 65636 colors,
Double-speed CD-ROM
MS Windows compatible mouse.