
Music is the most abstract form of the arts, it has no concrete image. In a miraculous way music can reflect the soul mood, the spiritual atmosphere depicted by the author in his work. Taking into consideration that ecclesiastical creativity is, in essence, conciliar, you can realize why church singing is of great importance for Divine Services. Not distracting the worshipper’s attention from the words of the prayer, the znamenny singing helps to hear and comprehend the text, emphasizes its sense and purport, but not only by the performing modes such as loud-voiced singing, melismas or solo parts. The ancient znamenny chants have something different: strict melodics, the profoundly and thoroughly elaborated musical form, having been well thought over by the old-times hymnographers with the only purpose to aid in feeling the prayer’s words.