Nikolaos Giannoukakis
Παλαιό Μέλος
Original in Greek:
http://www.ec-patr.org/docdisplay.php?lang=gr&id=1480&tla=gr
Note: This is NOT in any way an official translation. It is my own.
Ecumenical Patriarchate
Announcement by the Holy and Sacred Synod on the subject of Ecclesiastic Music
The Ecumenical Patriarchate, consequent to the decision of the Holy and Sacred Synod of the 29th of March 2012, on the specific exhibit of the Patriarchal and Synodic Committee on Holy Worship of the 23rd of March 2012 on the subject of our Ecclesiastic Music, because of the responsibility of a number of Psaltae in applying, at first imperceptibly, but in time more systematic, a theoretical work which circulated in 1982 under the title "Method of Hellenic Music-Theory", which created a disturbing situation, declares that:
1. It rejects and condemns the attempts to disseminate, against the authority of the decisions of the Mother Church, the unconstrained, irresponsible and blatant self-initiatives and recantations of the said "Theory", characterised as obsolete and foreign in relation to the canonical order of the prevailing theory and practice of our ecclesiastic music.
2. It denounces all illegitimate actions that willfully aim to change, falsify and forge the archaic musical works of composers formally recognised by the Mother Church, and,
3. As a musical system of our Ecclesiastic Music it recognises, applies and teaches along the theory, the practice and the tradition of the 1812-1814 "New Method of Analytic Notation of the Musical Compositions", founded by the Three Teachers, Chrysanthos Metropolitan of Prousa, Gregory the Protopsaltis and Chourmouzios the Chartophylax, and approved by the Mother Church.
In the Patriarchate, on this the 28th of May, 2012
From the Archsecretariat of the Holy and Sacred Synod
http://www.ec-patr.org/docdisplay.php?lang=gr&id=1480&tla=gr
Note: This is NOT in any way an official translation. It is my own.
Ecumenical Patriarchate
Announcement by the Holy and Sacred Synod on the subject of Ecclesiastic Music
The Ecumenical Patriarchate, consequent to the decision of the Holy and Sacred Synod of the 29th of March 2012, on the specific exhibit of the Patriarchal and Synodic Committee on Holy Worship of the 23rd of March 2012 on the subject of our Ecclesiastic Music, because of the responsibility of a number of Psaltae in applying, at first imperceptibly, but in time more systematic, a theoretical work which circulated in 1982 under the title "Method of Hellenic Music-Theory", which created a disturbing situation, declares that:
1. It rejects and condemns the attempts to disseminate, against the authority of the decisions of the Mother Church, the unconstrained, irresponsible and blatant self-initiatives and recantations of the said "Theory", characterised as obsolete and foreign in relation to the canonical order of the prevailing theory and practice of our ecclesiastic music.
2. It denounces all illegitimate actions that willfully aim to change, falsify and forge the archaic musical works of composers formally recognised by the Mother Church, and,
3. As a musical system of our Ecclesiastic Music it recognises, applies and teaches along the theory, the practice and the tradition of the 1812-1814 "New Method of Analytic Notation of the Musical Compositions", founded by the Three Teachers, Chrysanthos Metropolitan of Prousa, Gregory the Protopsaltis and Chourmouzios the Chartophylax, and approved by the Mother Church.
In the Patriarchate, on this the 28th of May, 2012
From the Archsecretariat of the Holy and Sacred Synod