 Mokranjac intended to compose a liturgy based on motives of all eight modes of Serbian chant, but he wrote only the Liturgy after the first mode.Written after the Serbian folk chant from the end of the 18th century, it bears witness to the author's ability to form a fine entity by stylizing those tunes.His way of harmonizing them, with frequent use of chords of secondary scale degrees, resulted in an archaic though distinctly Slavonic style, and his ingenious use of polyphonic elements enhanced the expressiveness of each note of the melodic line.