Gerasimos Papadopoulos - Weep and with tears lament [Θρηνώ και οδύρομαι] (with notes)

"Θρηνώ και οδύρομαι" is a funeral melismatic masterpiece composed by Manouel Chrysaphes (15th c.) in forth plagal mode. The hymnological text is written by John of Damascus (675/6-749).
From Gerasimos Papadopoulos' album "Byzantine Hymns" (2022), which is an artistic reconstruction of seven byzantine hymns recorded in five-line Partes notation in the manuscript Sinai 1477 (mid-18th century), probably on the basis of chanting by an Athonite monk.
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Here you can see in parallel this hymn recorded in Middle Byzantine notation, in Partes notation, and its New Method version: www.academia.edu/73300541/_%C....
photo by Yiannis Margetousakis
Lyrics in Ancient Greek:
Θρηνῶ καὶ ὀδύρομαι, ὅταν ἐννοήσω τὸν θάνατον, καὶ ἴδω ἐν τοῖς τάφοις κειμένην τὴν κατ᾿ εἰκόνα Θεοῦ, πλασθεῖσαν ἡμῖν ὡραιότητα, ἄμορφον, ἄδοξον, μὴ ἔχουσαν εἶδος. Ὢ τοῦ θαύματος! Τί τὸ περὶ ἡμᾶς τοῦτο γέγονε μυστήριον; Πῶς παρεδόθημεν τῇ φθορᾷ, καὶ συνεζεύχθημεν τῷ θανάτῳ; Ὄντως Θεοῦ προστάξει, ὡς γέγραπται, τοῦ παρέχοντος τοῖς μεταστᾶσι τὴν ἀνάπαυσιν.
English translation:
Weep, and with tears lament when with understanding I think on death, and see how in the graves there sleeps the beauty which once for us was fashioned in the image of God, but now is shapeless, ignoble, and bare of all the graces. O how strange a thing; what is this mystery which concerns us humans? Why were we given up to decay? And why to death united in wedlock? Truly, as it is written, these things come to pass by ordinance of God, Who to them, now gone gives rest.
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Υποκλίνομαι!

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Yüreğimi yaktın. Ne güzel

[@dendritis]

Exceptionally beautiful!

[@adilcaglar5642]

Nasılsın arkadaşım bunları yazarken seni dinliyorum. Ruhunla cenneti yaşıyor gibiyim. Gözlerim biraz doluk iyiliğini dilerim.

mükemmel

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Αυτό δεν είναι βυζαντινο ύφος...

[@GouTouPou]

Δεν είχα τέτοια πρόθεση μιας και δεν είμαι βυζαντινός υπήκοος...

[@c_lamprakes]

Αστον να λεει αδερφε! Εκπληκτικος! Εγω θεωρω οτι παιζει και να το πες οπως το λεγαν πριν την αλωση!