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I love listening to Serbian Orthodox Chant on YouTube and was wondering if anyone else enjoys this?

Sebian Orthodox Chant [youtube.com]

Beautiful!

Here is another Serbian Orthodox Chant video which uses Greek Chant. It too is beautiful and joyful.

SERBIAN ORTHODOX Chant - Blessed be the Lord God

Here is another on which has Greek chant from the Serbians.

SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH MUSIC / PSALM 136

And another beautiful Serbian you-tube video done in Greek chant.

It sounds like the morning matins (orthros).

SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH MUSIC / BLAGOSLOVEN JESI GOSPODE

Serbian Orthodox music - this is a selection of different hymns -
kind of choppy in parts.

I remember reading somewhere that there is a debate in Serbia whether to abolish the old "traditional" Serbian chant in favor of (re) adopting Byzantine chant in Slavonic. Well, both are beautiful, so I hope that the Serbians retain both!

Byzantine chant is compunctionate and grave, while the "traditional" Serbian chant is surprisingly modern-sounding and unique.

You know, my Eastern brothers, I envy your great variety of chant! You have Byzantine chant (in various forms), Serbian, Bulgarian, Carpathian, Georgian, a large number of Russian chant-forms (Valaam, Kiev-Caves, Znammeny and its various forms, southern Rus), etc. In the West, the old systems of chant have totally disappeared, bulldozed by Gregorian chant in its codified, Solesmes-Vatican interpretation. Gregorian chant is very beautiful, but having only one kind of chant is very problematic too...