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How to Be Liberated from Frequent Falls? Reasons and benefits (4)

How to Be Liberated from Frequent Falls? Reasons and benefits By: House of God’s Love Book name: Book series of Principles of Spiritual Life How to be liberated from frequent falls By: Servants of God’s Love Hostel * We hope in Christ that this series would reach the hands of every Christian youth. …

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Coptic Music Transcriptions In Western Notation

Heritage, History / By Youssef Matta

Coptic Music Transcriptions in Western Notation Although there may be some pieces of evidence of a notation system using dots and a primitive ekphonetic notation for Coptic music, the Copts have preserved their music over the centuries essentially by means of an oral tradition (see Oral Tradition, above). Only in the nineteenth century did scholars …

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Coptic Musicologists

Heritage / By Youssef Matta

Coptic Musicologists Borsai, Ilona (1925-1982) After graduating from the University of Kolozsvar, in her native city of Cluj, Rumania, qualified to teach Greek and French languages, Ilona Borsai attended the Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, where she received the Diploma of Music Education. Completing further studies in the field of musicology under Bence Szalolcsi, …

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Cantors Of The Coptic Music

Heritage / By Youssef Matta

Cantors, Their Role and Musical Training Because members of the clergy were not equally talented as singers, it became and has remained the tradition to entrust performance of the music to a professional cantor (Arabic: ‘arif, “one who knows,” or mu‘allim, “teacher”), who is employed and trained by the church to be responsible for the …

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Nawruz

Culture, Events / By Armia FAYEZ

NAWRUZ The first day of the Coptic year, which corresponds to the 11th of September in the Gregorian calendar. The main theme of this feast is renovation. The church beseeches the blessing of God for the new year. The church chants in joyful tunes (faraihi). It appears that this feast may have its origin in …

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