Abstract. An unknown troparion for the Office of the Holy Passion in MS 4 of the Monastery of Kykkos.
The Sticherarion-Anthologia of the Monastery of Kykkos MS 4 (φ.74r-ˇ‐75v), of the 19th century, contains a troparion that “is chanted on the Holy and Great Thursday, when the Holy Cross is placed in the middle of the church”. This troparion is a quatrain poem. The theological content of the poem is salvific. Τheoretically speaking the troparion is a combination of what preceeded and what followed the 1814 Theory of Byzantine music. The copyist notes the mode of the troparion as being the Third from Ga (base) and this because the melody (melos) begins from high Ni΄ from the base of Nana (of the Trochos system). The melody on the first melodic phrase is a movement of Nana. The melos moves two tones below the base while it osculates dyphonia on the words “Ουτος”, “αμαρτιας” and “ερει”. The final ending of the melody occurs in the antiphony of Nana. The mode of the troparion, according to the 1814 theory, is the plagal of the Fourth, which begins from its heptaphony.
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