Gerasimos Papadopoulos - Sanctus [Άγιος, άγιος, άγιος] (with notes)

The traditional melismatic melody for "Άγιος" (the byzantine equivalent of Sanctus) in second mode, as intended specifically for St Basil's liturgy.

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: https://www.academia.edu/73094731/_%C....

photo by Yiannis Margetousakis


Lyrics in Ancient Greek:

Ἅγιος, ἅγιος, ἅγιος Κύριος Σαβαώθ·
πλήρης ὁ οὐρανὸς καὶ ἡ γῆ τῆς δόξης σου,
ὡσαννὰ ἐν τοῖς ὑψίστοις.
Εὐλογημένος ὁ ἐρχόμενος ἐν ὀνόματι Κυρίου.
Ὡσαννὰ ὁ ἐν τοῖς ὑψίστοις.


English translation:

Holy, holy, holy, lorde God of hostes.
heaven and earth are full of thy glory
Osanna in the highest.
Blessed is he that commeth in the name of the lorde:
Glory to the, o lorde in the highest.


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