Śpiewy z Taizé – na drodze ku hezychii i ekumenii

• Authors: Wojciech Stępień

Title variants

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The chants of Taizé – on the road to hesychasm and ecumenism

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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In his study about the liturgical music after the Second Vatican Council Ireneusz Pawlak calls songs from Taizé „poor artistic music” (2001: 42). My article proves that songs of this French ecumenical community are based upon the rich music tradition and mostly of them are based on basso ostinato which was very popular in baroque (passamezzo, folia, chaconne). Texts of these songs use only a few, several times repeated words taken from the Bible and the Fathers of the Church. The melodic and harmonic repetitions have common roots with the practice of the incessant Jesus prayer in the East Church, described amongst others by John Cassian. This prayer generates the prayer of the heart which consequently gives hesychia: spiritual calmness and union with the God leading all believers to true ecumenism.

Keywords

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Taizé; community singing; perpetual prayer; ecumenism; Jacques Berthier

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo „Księgarnia Świętego Jacka” z siedzibą w Katowicach
• Journal: Studia Pastoralne
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 12
• Pages: 61-74

Contributors

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Wojciech Stępień

• Akademia Muzyczna im. Karola Szymanowskiego w Katowicach