Summary
This paper explores the Greek Evangelical Hymnography, considering not only the Lutheran protestant tradition but also the way the origins of the churches influenced the hymn melodies. Moreover, it focuses on the presentation and the analysis of evangelical hymns which were mainly sung in Cappadocia. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of three hymns, the melodies of which were only passed down through oral tradition (nowadays almost forgotten), and which are presented for the first time in this paper. Since the population exchange between Greece and Turkey took place at the beginning of the 20th century, two different cultural environments started to coexist amongst the churches that settled in Greece, the Modern Greek and the Ottoman. Each one affected the language of the hymnography and its musical texture (modality, harmony and rhythm).
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