Abstract
This chapter offers a glimpse into how value is articulated and performed in the multilayeredness of a distinctive service from Passion Week, the Washing of the Feet. The chapter is essentially an interpretive narrative description of the event that combines reference to written sources and to living practice. It underlines the constant processes of negotiation, juxtaposition, and ordering that bring together the various elements of an ecclesiastical service. In the liturgical reenactment of a biblical story in which Jesus washed the feet of his twelve disciples, the various modes of value conception and construction in Hayy al-Suryan merge and mediate the conception and performance of the music event. Liturgical structures, chant sequences, textual choices, musical decisions, role distribution, and choir administration are enmeshed with issues of music preservation and development, emotional significance, aesthetic preference, matters of faith, and existing structures of ecclesiastical governance.
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