Believers. Idiomela are unique compositions, while avtomela or aftomela—sing. automelon, avtomelon or aftomelon (Medieval Greek: αὐτόμελον, Church Slavonic: самоподобенъ...

ἐγεννήθη παιδίον νέον, ὁ πρὸ αἰώνων Θεός. A hymn may more or less imitate an automelon melodically and metrically—depending, if the text has exactly the same...

the eight liturgical modes, or a variation on the modes, known as an automelon. Hymnology Canonical hours Halim El-Dabh Doxastiko (or Theodora in Byzantium)...