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Armenian chant| The music of the Church in Armenia from its establishment in 303. It pursued an independent path after the separation from the Greek Church in 536. Its original, alphabetical notation was replaced in the 12th century by a neumic system (in which the only manuscripts have survived), which cannot now be deciphered. |
| The Church's collection of hymns (the Sharakan) is arranged according to the eight modes or echoi, apparently defined by melodic formulae rather than by scale. |
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