Liturgies coptes = coptic liturgies

The Coptic Orthodox Liturgy of St. Basil provides a rich and unique resource for the study of a major living tradition of Christian worship. It will interest students and researchers of chant traditions, Egyptian music, Middle Eastern musics both devotional and more secular, and liturgics. Additionally, it will serve the Coptic religious community, a historic population in the Middle East and an ever-growing and important one in North America, as a musico-historical document. As a liturgical resource, it broadens our understanding of Christian practice, bringing us closer to the contemporary living tradition of one of the four historic Patriarchates, that of Alexandria (alongside those of Antioch, Byzantium, and Rome).