Reply To: Week 2 Discussion Topic: Do You Think We Need a New Typikon?
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One question I have as I think this topic through is what exactly counts as a “new Typikon”. Some of the changes suggested by pdfallon come down to formatting revisions (making it bilingual, including page headers and tabs, time estimates, etc.). Other suggestions don’t so much change any prescriptions of the Typikon as lay them out more clearly (when there are options/choices apropos for different level chanters, etc.) or involve more didactic explanations in the text of the Typikon itself (e.g., including design principles underlying and explaining decisions for how to lay out the lectionary). These all sound *really* helpful and are great suggestions, but do they count as changes to the Typikon?
I genuinely don’t know the answer, but my intuitions are that mere formatting changes would not constitute a new Typikon, whereas including more didactic or explanatory details about the prescriptions in the Typikon might count. Perhaps an example of the latter is George Regas’s Typikon, which (if I understood correctly) is primarily a more detailed (explanatory) and linguistically updated version of the TAS.
On the other hand, we might consider this discussion topic with respect to a new Typikon that would change something of the very substance of Violakis. A new descriptive Typikon based on the practice in US parishes today would, I believe, result in a substantive change in content (and not mere formatting changes or additions of didactic, explanatory text) to Violakis.