Octoechos – name of the eight mode system used for the composition of religious chant in Byzantine, Syrian, Coptic, Armenian, Latin and Slavic churches since the Middle Ages. In a modified form the octoechos is still regarded as the fundament of the living tradition of monodic Orthodox chant today.
[adapted from Octoechos - Wikipedia (Wikipedia.org)]
Octoikhos (alternate spelling) – liturgical book which contains services from All Saint's Sunday to the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee in eight tones; hence its name "Octo" which means eight. Since each tone is used for one week only, the Octoikhos covers but eight weeks. Consequently after each eight weeks the cycle of Octoikhos is repeated.
[Greek Catholic Dictionary, Rev. Basil Shereghy, S.T.D. and Rev. Vladimir Vancik, S.T.D., Pittsburgh Byzantine Diocesan Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1951, pg. 51]
[adapted from Octoechos - Wikipedia (Wikipedia.org)]
Octoikhos (alternate spelling) – liturgical book which contains services from All Saint's Sunday to the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee in eight tones; hence its name "Octo" which means eight. Since each tone is used for one week only, the Octoikhos covers but eight weeks. Consequently after each eight weeks the cycle of Octoikhos is repeated.
[Greek Catholic Dictionary, Rev. Basil Shereghy, S.T.D. and Rev. Vladimir Vancik, S.T.D., Pittsburgh Byzantine Diocesan Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1951, pg. 51]
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