Servikon
Servikon (po rodjenju tvom) ( Serbian, Serbian - Cyrillic Сервикон (по рођењу твом) , German: Servikon (after the birth)) is a song in the Old Serbian language from the late Middle Ages, which in the tradition of Byzantine Christian-Orthodox compositions for the liturgical holiday Virgin Mary's Cleansing (Serbian: Ваведеније Богородице / Vavedenije Bogorodice) was composed, and is sung on the occasion.
The Servikon is a Sticheron from Christian Orthodox, Serbian hands, whose oldest surviving written source dates from 1553. The composer or composers and the exact location where the Sticheron was written are not known. Some historians assume that the manuscript comes from the Hilandar monastery of the monastic republic of Athos , administered by the Serbian Orthodox Church , in which some pieces were composed by Serbs. It is one of the few stichera that have survived from the late Middle Ages after the Ottoman invasion of Christian southeastern Europe. The Sticheron was reconstructed via Neume , as if from marginal notes in the surviving medieval Cyrillic documents by Christian Orthodox clergy.
Dragoslav-Pavle Aksentijević ( Serbian - Cyrillic Драгослав-Павле Аксентијевић ) introduces the Christian Orthodox hymn in the album Muzika stare Srbije ( Serbian - Cyrillic Музика старје Србика старе Србика старе Србика Србика Србика Србика Србика Србика Србика Србика . The vocal piece lasts about two minutes and ten seconds.
Other well-known interpreters of the vocal piece are Dimitrije Stefanović and the Belgrade choir Beogradski madrigalisti .