romiosini wrote:ha? Boston Schism? When did this happen? And I thought Znammeney chant was influenced by byzantine and its origin is from the begining of byzantine chanting no?
I apologize. Please allow me to make myself clearer. Znamenney chant certainly did originate from Byzantine. In fact, Znamenney is closer to the Byzantine chant used before the Turkokratia than current Byzantine chant. My point was that Slavophiles who love polyphonic chanting tend to be very disdainful of monophonic chanting, which ties into a general disdain for all things Greek, as Byzantine chant is monophonic, with an ison. When the Greek faction of ROCOR broke away to form HOCNA (the so-called "Boston Schism") in 1986, this further reinforced anti-Greek sentiments which were already in place among Slavophiles within ROCOR.
--Sean