In the beginning was the word...

                 a word that "dressed" with music...

The music of Eastern Orthodox Church expresses the sentimental movements of the heart, like attrition, divine sadness , but also praise, doxology, thanksgiving, holy enthusiasm.

Its character is liturgical, mystagogic, leading up, that is to say, from flesh to spirit.  Its purpose is not to accompany the words (in order to please the ear hearing), but to stress them. For this reason, it was unificated and blazoned through the centuries as monofonic music in order that, through this and "divine inspiration", help people to understand the words of God better.

Consequently, via its performers, helps itself to the adoration. In addition to that when it is served and presented from good voiced Psalts (chanters), the orthodox ecclesiastical music not only is boring, but also disposes, beyond the religiosity, unreachable magnificence. So it is obvious that also our Greek-orthodoxe ecclesiastical tradition is an unending wordmaking and musicmaking, a non-stop praise, a "clear sound of who celebrating..", a live way to apply with consistency the will" every breath is praising the God.."

The Byzantine music is the music of soul. If somebody does not conceive that this music ornaments and enriches with divine sentiment, the wonderful words of the hymns, can't either feel deeply their meaning. Because words and psalmody, as wisely refers Fotis Kontogloy, are tied up as body and soul, as form and colour in a picture.

The Byzantine music expresses the "most leal" of the christian religion, the mental joy and sadness, namely that spiritual fragrance, which can be approached only by the spiritual senses that feel the participants of the ecclesiastical life. It constitutes a wise creation of many centuries, a divine song that even today, in this materialistic period, can move and lead the human souls to divine attrition.
                                               

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