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If the music hasn't been too westernized, you'll hear music chanted in the eight Byzantine modes. Even westernized version will attempt to retain the feel of the music as much as possible. The Greek version of the music and the Slavic versions have diverged over the past millennium, so the music will be quite different, even though the translations of the words would be the same.
In Greek use, the modes (also called "tones") do not follow the western "piano scale"-style note spacing, except for one. All the others are in minor, or soft or hard chromatic. The overall feel of the music is quite Eastern.
Protestant hymns are not used, except for Christmas carols seasonally sung *after the service as the people leave, never during the service. Orthodoxy his its own 2000-year-old tradition of music and doctrinal teaching thereby.
Blessings.
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Compare the music one might hear in an Eastern Orthodox church to a Western one.?
