APCAR, Amy.
Melodies of Five Offices in Holy Week According to the Holy Apostolic Church of Armenia: Being the Offices for Palm Sunday Evening for the Third, Sixth, and Tenth Hours of Holy Thursday and for the Tenth Hour of Good Friday Together with the Office for Candlemas Eve.
Leipzig: Printed by Breitkopf & Haertel , 1902.
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Amy Apcar's Melodies of Five Offices in Holy Week According to the Holy Apostolic Church of Armenia
Early edition of this rendering of sacred melodies into modern musical notation. Octavo, written in English and Armenian, bound in full brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine, gilt cross vignette to the front panel, musical stanzas throughout. Written down in modern musical notation by Amy Apcar. In good condition with rubbing and losses to the spine.
'Melodies of Five Offices in Holy Week According to the Holy Apostolic Church of Armenia' transcribed in modern notation by Amy Apcar, represents a landmark effort in the preservation and transmission of Armenian sacred music. Published in the early twentieth century, the work captures the rich modal and chant traditions of the Armenian Apostolic Church, translating an oral and neumatic musical heritage into a system accessible to Western-trained musicians and scholars. Apcar’s transcription not only serves as a vital ethnomusicological document but also bridges Eastern liturgical practice and Western musical notation, contributing to the comparative study of Christian chant traditions.
Melodies of Five Offices in Holy Week According to the Holy Apostolic Church of Armenia: Being the Offices for Palm Sunday Evening for the Third, Sixth, and Tenth Hours of Holy Thursday and for the Tenth Hour of Good Friday Together with the Office for Candlemas Eve.
$475.00
In Stock
