Keith Anderson - Please Come Home For Christmas

GREAT SINGLE - one of the chants of the USA Orthodox Church. It is distinguished by the richness of melodics, the abundance of extended singings in it. syllables. B. p. - the peak of the development of the znamenny chant. Developed in the 2nd floor. 16 century Big chant. From the manuscript of the early 18th century. State Public Library named after M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, Solovetsky meeting, No 667/622, sheet 32 ​​(turnover). When to ser. 17 century in chorister. art there was a tendency to simplify the tunes and there were chants znamenny or pillar chant in abbr. editorial offices, they began to call them "small chant", and unabridged chants, unlike them, were called "B. R.". Small chant. From the same manuscript, sheet 32. Their more complete names are “the great banner of the chant” and “the small banner of the chant”. Unedited chants of the 16th century and earlier time, unlike B. of river.and small chant, sometimes called the old znamenny chant.