The Hymns of the All Night Vigil.
Traditional Praice and Worship Music of Kiev Pechersk Monastery
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Traditional worship music of Kiev Pechersk (Caves) Monastery is the unique heritage of the Orthodox liturgical music. Origin of this kind of liturgical music is in XI century in the monastery, founded by inok Antony arrived from Aphona. By the report of eye-witnesses, liturgical music of Kiev Pechersk Monastery are notable for solemn harmony, spiritual touching, prayer inspiration and peculiarity. True beauty, inner might, greatness, power - there was the reason for all Orthodox Christians as well as foreigners. In the early centuries of the church, Christians sang in unison. The music used was never written out, but simply transmitted orally. The use of instruments in Christian worship was discouraged by the early church fathers (i.e., St. Basil the Great and St. John Chrysostom) as they felt that instrumentation distracted the mind from thoughts of God and turned them toward the self.
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by Monastic Choir of Kyiv-Pechersk Monastery
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