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14 ore fa · Music is the arrangement of sound for expressive purposes, often characterised as encompassing aspects of form, harmony, melody, and rhythm. [1] [2] [3] Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all human societies. [4] Definitions of music vary widely in substance and approach. [5]
2 giorni fa · A page from the Zograf Codex with text of the Gospel of Luke. The Glagolitic script ( / ˌɡlæɡəˈlɪtɪk /, [2] ⰃⰎⰀⰃⰑⰎⰉⰜⰀ, glagolitsa) is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. It is generally agreed that it was created in the 9th century for the purpose of translating liturgical texts into Old Church Slavonic by Saint Cyril, a ...
3 giorni fa · Language. Syriac language, as the most prominent variant of Aramaic language in the Christian era, is used by the Syriac Orthodox Church in two basic forms: Classical Syriac is traditionally employed as the main liturgical and literary language, while Neo-Aramaic (Neo-Syriac) dialect known as Turoyo is spoken as the most common vernacular language.
3 giorni fa · One criterion for determining that two language variants are to be considered separate languages rather than variants of a single language is that they have evolved so that they are no longer mutually intelligible; this diagnostic is effective if mutual intelligibility is minimal or absent (e.g. in Romance, Romanian and Portuguese), but it fails in cases such as Spanish-Portuguese or Spanish ...
3 giorni fa · Coptic icon of St. Mark. The Copts are one of the oldest Christian communities in the Middle East. Although integrated in the larger Egyptian nation state, the Copts have survived as a distinct religious community forming around 5 to 20 percent of the population, [40] [30] [41] [42] though estimates vary.
3 giorni fa · Saint Mary Church: an ancient Assyrian church located in the city of Urmia, West Azerbaijan province, Iran. The Assyrian Church of the East is governed by an episcopal polity, the same as other apostolic churches. The church maintains a system of geographical parishes organized into dioceses and archdioceses.
3 giorni fa · "But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."
