troparion

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Ancient Greek τροπάριον (tropárion)

Noun

troparion (plural troparions or troparia)

  1. In Byzantine music and in the religious music of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, a short hymn of one stanza, or organised in more complex forms as a series of stanzas.
    • 1988, Milorad Pavić, Christina Pribićević-Zorić, transl., Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 31:
      When awakened, Kyr Avram sits in bed and, as if out of fear, sings troparia and contakia in honor of his ancestors, when the Serbian church has declared saints.
    Coordinate term: apolytikion

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