[B-Greek] Using Songs in Greek Pedagogy - FWS hILARON

Louis Sorenson llsorenson at hotmail.com
Wed May 26 13:16:15 EDT 2010


REGARDGING ΦΩΣ ΙΛΑΡΟΝ  FWS hILARON



Trying one for FWS hILARON Φως Ιλαρον would be fun -- but the tune would

need to be a modern one, I think, to have a drawing appeal.

 There is a modern CD called "Hymns Ancient and Modern 

(A CD of Ancient Hymns reworked into modern English)


http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0001BS3KW



Some updated links for the Old Greek Hymns (they first two from George 
did not work)

http://egolpio.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/ilaron/

http://www.nme.com/awards/video/id/1CziKju5i_0%C2%A0 
 (There was a back door they kept going around back through -- keep a 
close eye on the faces)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phos_Hilaron





Text of FWS HILARON:  (From Wikipedia.  Line breaks are my guesses)

Φῶς ἱλαρὸν ἁγίας δόξης ἀθανάτου Πατρός,
οὐρανίου, ἁγίου, μάκαρος, Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ,
ἐλθόντες ἐπὶ τὴν ἡλίου δύσιν,
ἰδόντες φῶς ἐσπερινόν,
ὑμνοῦμεν Πατέρα, Υἱόν, καὶ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα, Θεόν.
Ἄξιόν σε ἐν πᾶσι καιροῖς ὑμνεῖσθαι φωναῖς αἰσίαις,
Υἱὲ Θεοῦ, ζωὴν ὁ διδούς
διὸ ὁ κόσμος σὲ δοξάζει

FWS hILARON hAGIAS DOXHS AQANATOU PATROS,
OURANIOU, hAGIOU, MAKAROS, IHSOU CRISTE,
ELQONTES EPI THN hHLIOU DUSIN,
IDONTES FWS ESPERINON,
hUMNOUMEN PATERA, hUION, KAI hAGION PNEUMA, QEON.
AXION SE EN PASI KAIROIS hUMNEISQAI FWNAIS AISIAIS,
hUIE QEOU, ZWHN hO DIDOUS
DIO hO KOSMOS SE DOXAZEI<<.


From

 the Vespers (Evening Prayer) service in the Lutheran Book of Worship, 
Lutheran Worship, and Lutheran Service Book

Joyous light of glory of the immortal Father,

Heavenly, holy, blessed Jesus Christ,

We have come to the setting of the Sun

And we look to the evening light.

We sing to God, the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit.

You are worthy of being praised with pure voices forever.

O Son of God, O Giver of Light,

The universe proclaims your glory.


Perhaps someone on the list could show some music links for 

the Traditional Greek music. Greek chants do no use the same
standard 8 notes per octave with the same tonal breaks as
modern western music, does it?


Louis Sorenson

 		 	   		  
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