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A sticheron (plural: stichera) is a type of hymn used in the services of the daily cycle, while a sticherarion is a book containing the stichera for the morning and evening services throughout the year. Stichera are also found in the Menaion and Octoechos. This word should not be confused with a sticharion (a kind of vestment).

Traditionally, stichera are most often sung in the sticheraric form of the modal music which is canonical in the Orthodox Church. With the advent of harmonized, polyphonic, non-modal music in some Orthodox churches, the traditional forms have been lost. In Byzantine chant, sticheraric modes are of "medium" speed (slower than irmologic but faster than papadic), with each syllable often having two or three notes in its singing. The sticheraric mode is most often used for singing stichera, but it is not exclusive to it.

In some traditions, the sticheraric mode has been reserved mainly for the services of Sundays or feast days., and the irmologic mode has been substituted for singing stichera at the daily services.


Usage

Stichera are commonly written in cycles on particular themes or for use in particular liturgical contexts. Examples of such themes include:

Examples of liturgical contexts where stichera are commonly used include:

Stichera are usually sung in alternation with verses from the Psalms or other scriptural sources. In liturgical books, they are designated as having a particular tone.

Settings of stichera are frequently found in recordings of Orthodox liturgical music, some by well known composers.


[WIKIPEDIA:Aposticha The Aposticha (Greek: Άπόστιχα'; Slavonic: stikhíry na stikhóvne) are a set of hymns (stichera) accompanied by psalm verses (stichos)[1] which are chanted towards the end of Vespers and Matins in the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite.

The Greek term literally means "[hymns] on the verses." The aposticha belong to a family of hymns, known as stichera, which are normally tied to psalm verses in the Daily Office. Unlike other stichera, which normally follow their psalm verses, the aposticha are unique in that they preceed their psalm verses.

Aposticha are found at Vespers every day, but at Matins they occur only on ordinary weekdays, being omitted on higher-ranking feast days.

At Vespers on Sundays (i.e., Saturday evening) there is one more sticheron than on weekdays. The aposticha at Sunday Vespers form an acrostic in the original Greek (the first sticheron is not part of the acrostic). ]

Stihira este un set de imnuri şi versuri de la sfârşitul Vecerniei şi Utreniei. În greceşte înseamnă "imnuri în versuri (stichos)." Apostiha este unică prin aceea că începe cu un imn, în loc de un vers aşa cum începe o stihira în prezent. Duminica se cântă o stihira mai mult decât în zilele săptămânii. Apostiha Vecerniei duminicale are forma unui acrostih alfabetic în greaca veche. Prima stihira nu este parte a acrostihului.

Izvoare

  • Arhimandrit Efrem, "Apostiha" şi "Stihira" în Dicţionarul Blackwell de Creştinism Răsăritean (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1999.) ISBN 0631189661
  • Călugării din Schitul Nou, "Introducere" în Imnuri de Implorare (Cambridge, New York: New Skete, 1987.) ISBN 093512909X