Shota
Παλαιό Μέλος
See here
http://www.scribd.com/doc/42061384/BROCK-Studies-in-Syrian-Christianity
an article by one of the foremost experts in Syriac studies on the interrelationship between the Syriac and Greek hymnography (there is a menu at the bottom of the page; go to p. 56)*. I also attach the article "The Dependence of Romanos the Melodist upon the Syriac Ephrem: Its Importance for the Origin of the Kontakion" by William L. Petersen (Vigiliae Christianae
Vol. 39, No. 2 (Jun., 1985), pp. 171-187).
http://www.scribd.com/doc/42061384/BROCK-Studies-in-Syrian-Christianity
an article by one of the foremost experts in Syriac studies on the interrelationship between the Syriac and Greek hymnography (there is a menu at the bottom of the page; go to p. 56)*. I also attach the article "The Dependence of Romanos the Melodist upon the Syriac Ephrem: Its Importance for the Origin of the Kontakion" by William L. Petersen (Vigiliae Christianae
Vol. 39, No. 2 (Jun., 1985), pp. 171-187).