Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Music=== {{Main article|Orthodox Tewahedo music}} [[File:Timkat priests.jpg|thumb|Ethiopian Orthodox priests dancing during 2015 [[Timkat]] celebration]] The music of Ethiopian Orthodox Church traced back to Saint [[Yared]], who composed [[Zema]] or "chant", which divided into three modes: Ge'ez (ordinary days), Ezel (fast days and Lent) and Araray (principal feasts).<ref>{{Cite web |date=23 August 2022 |title=YARED: THE COMPOSER OF HUMNS |url=https://piassabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/e18b9ce18a93-e18aa0e189a0e18b8d.pdf}}</ref> It is important to Ethiopian liturgy and divided into fourteen Anaphoras, the normal use being of the Twelve Apostles. In ancient times, there were six Anaphoras used by many monasteries.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Salvadore |first1=Matteo |last2=Lorenzi |first2=James De |date=April 2021 |title=An Ethiopian Scholar in Tridentine Rome: Täsfa Ṣeyon and the Birth of Orientalism |journal=Itinerario |language=en |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=17–46 |doi=10.1017/S0165115320000157 |s2cid=232422416 |issn=0165-1153|doi-access=free }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page