Vespers as chanted on the Holy Mountain - St. Anthony's Monastery

xviiiConcerning AdaptationComparing the two, we can see that the English adaptation h<strong>as</strong> successfully captured theflavor of the original and several of its melodic phr<strong>as</strong>es. Furthermore, this transcription inWestern notation includes many of the implied embellishments of Byzantine chant. It also followsthe formulaic rules perfectly, except in the beginning of the second staff where the word“me” is used with a melodic phr<strong>as</strong>e that is supposed to have two syllables instead of only one.We shall now proceed to examine various adaptions of this hymn in other foreign languages.The following example is taken from an An<strong>as</strong>t<strong>as</strong>imatarion in Rumanian: 8This example is similar to the fourth and fifth examples in that the original Greek melodyh<strong>as</strong> not been preserved, but the text h<strong>as</strong> not been distorted, and the music follows the formulaicrules of Byzantine music. It also follows the orthographical rules faithfully, except in one place:8 An<strong>as</strong>t<strong>as</strong>imatarul, Sfintei Mon<strong>as</strong>tiri Neamţu, Bucureşti, 1943, p. 1.