Pl. -ia. [a. Gr. τροπάριον, dim. of τρόπος TROPE (sense 5).] in the Greek Church: A short hymn, or a stanza of a hymn; also, = TROPER.
1850. Neale, Hist. Eastern Ch., I. 832, note b. A Canon, in the usual services, consists of nine odes; each ode is divided into an uncertain number of troparia, generally three, four, or five. Troparion is the generic term for all the short hymns of which the services of the Greek Church almost entirely consist.
1876. Stainer & Barrett, Dict. Mus. Terms (1898), Troparion, an office-book of the Greek Church containing the sequences or chants sung after the lessons.
