still, his compositions has so many cracky musical lines that troubles the psaltis more than it helps. he published some books while others didn't. it's true that Mitri has a really great vioce, but that is the factor that made him so special.

and as we have on the some of his recordings we see that he chants completely different that what he 'composed'. Elia el Roomi is far more better pdaltis that Mitri el Murr was, it's true that Mitri is the only Arab that published byzantine notation books, but what bothers me about him is that most of his works are tranlated (almost literally) from the original Greek and he wrote that they are his own compoition and correction on the cover of his books, and most of those peices he didn't get from a Greek origin he got from his teacher Yousef el Doumani (who didn't leave any written legacy) and again Mitri didn't mention that those peices aren't his. I hope I may add a personal opinion and I hope it won't bother any Arab psaltis. he was the protopsaltis of the Holy Cross Chuch in Damascus from 1953 till1970 then he was the protopsaltis of Kuwait till1990 and he's now in Montreal (Canada) tilll this day. I will provide recordings of Elia and Fauzi Bshara soon. he had many students, one of them is Fauzi Bshara who chants almost exactly like his teacher. he chanted in Greek and sometimes in Arabic. he was distinguished with his strong voice and his control over his wide vocal range. he left his mark and affected everyone who chants in Damascus till this day. he was appointed in the 1924 as the Protopsaltis of the f Antioch. He's a Greek psaltis came to Aleppo in1922 then he went to Damascus. Elia Simonidis (known as Elia el Roomi). he taught byzantine music in the Theology institute (is closed in our days) in the Orthodox School of the Patriarchate (Al Assia) and was appointed as the Protopsaltis of the church of Antioch. Joseph (Youseph) el Doumani the Damascinos (Damascene). he was the psaltis of the Patriasch Methodios at least starting from 1826. he was the Protopsaltis of Antioch at least on the 1825

Joseph son of Abdo son of Michael Mukhalla' the Damascenos. Gabriel Mousa Meidani was the Protopsaltis of the Maryamiye church (the Patriarchate church) from 1818 till 1847 at least and he's probably was taught by the very same Xourmozios Xartofilax (there's a slight chance of mistake that he wasn't taught by Xourmozios but by another student of Georgios of Crete like Phwkaeos, though the more likely is that Xourmozios was his teacher). There were Arabs and Greeks who were brought to chant here (they chanted mostly in Greek and sometimes in Arabic)

Joseph Zeitoun talks about the psaltai in Antioch (Arab church) in the 19th and 20th century. an article published in the Al-Nashra magazine of the Antioch Pariarchate by fr.Youhanna (Iouannis) el Lati and Dr. Mitri el Murr and Muaikel were NOT the first to chant in Arabic nor to write in byzantine notation.

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