Ivan Moody
Orthodox Liturgical Links Part 3
Music
Christian
liturgical-musical studies and other resources
Prof. Peter Jeffrey – http://www.music.princeton.edu/chant_html/what.html
Loeb Music Library [includes the Laura Bolton Collection of Byzantine and Orthodox Musics; field recordings made during the 1950s and 60s] - http://hcl.harvard.edu/loebmusic/awm-about.html
Bulgarian Musicology – Online - http://musicart.imbm.bas.bg/BM-online.html
International Society for
Orthodox Church Music – http://www.isocm.com
New!
PSALM (Pan-Orthodox Society for
the Advancement of Liturgical Music) - http://www.orthodoxpsalm.org/
Byzantine
Chant
Syllogos Mousikophilon Constantinopoleos [Friends of Music of Constantinople: extensive site, in Greek, with music in Byzantine notation, sound files, weekly Typikon and other material] – www.cmkon.org
The
Byzantine Musical Archives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (in Greek) – http://www.hri.org/E/1997/97-04-25.dir/keimena/art/art3.htm
Byzantine
Musicology (Bredius Foundation) - http://www.brediusstichting.nl/index.htm
Byzantine
Music Publishing House (transcriptions by John Velon - www.ByzantineMusic.org New!
Adamis, Michael - http://www.iema.culture.gr/psme/CVs/cv_adamis.htm
Analogion (Dimitri Koubaroulis:
extensive audio and musicological resources) –
St Anthony’s Monastery:
The
Divine Liturgies Music Project - http://stanthonysmonastery.org/music/Index.html
Free
Byzantine Music Fonts - http://www.stanthonysmonastery.org/music/ByzMusicFonts.zip
50
Rules of Byzantine Music Orthography - http://www.stanthonysmonastery.org/music/ByzOrthography.pdf
Byzantine music history - http://www.slider.com/enc/9000/Byzantine_music.htm
Byzantine music history - http://www.geocities.com/byz_music/
Byzantine
Musicology: Article by Georgios Stathopoulos - http://users.fth.sch.gr/sekyritsis/georgios_stathopoulos.htm
Byzantine
chant – www.goarch.org/access/byzantinemusic/
Byzantine
chant – Psaltic Notes [excellent site by Fr Constantine Terzopoulos] – http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/frc/
Byzantine
music links – http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/byzmusic.html
Byzantine Chant Studies Page [Daniel Johnson]: includes much useful Byzantine material in English as PDF files – http://www.theologian.org/chant/
Byzantine
chant Midis - http://www.theologian.org/choir.html
Byzantine
chant audio files – http://www.cmkon.org/multimedia.htm
Byzantine
chant audio files - http://www.ecclesia.gr/Multimedia/multimediaindex.html
Byzantine
chant audio files [GOA site] - http://www.goarch.org/en/multimedia/audio/
Byzantine Tuning - http://www.travelling-crete.com/elkriti/byzant1.htm
St Gregory Palamas Monastery [Fr Seraphim Dedes: downloadable chant transcriptions in Noteworthy format] http://www.bright.net/~palamas/sgpmwb/index.html
GOA Learn to chant Sunday Orthos
[Fr Seraphim Dedes] http://www.goarch.org/en/Chapel/chant.asp
Light
of the East Internet Radio - http://www.kelfar.net/orthodoxiaradio/
Monumenta
Musicae Byzantinae – http://adam.igl.ku.dk/MMB
Arimathea Byzantine Chant page (David Melling) – http://www.church-music.co.uk
[These pages include many
transcriptions and an entire printable manual on reading Byzantine chant.]
Stan Takis:
Dowlnloadable PDF files of Byzantine music in Greek and English - http://geocities.com/takistan
Houpas,
D: From Byzantine to Western music (in Greek) - http://www.houpas.com/
Ionian University of Corfu:
Traditional Greek Music Department - http://www.ionio.gr/~GreekMus/
Neobyzantine
chant fonts – http://www.byzanmusic.com
Byzantine chant manuscripts from the Mount Athos Exhibition at Thessaloniki, 1997– http://www.culture.gr/2/21/218/218eu/e218eu00.html
Catalogue of manuscripts in the library of Philotheou Monastery, Mount Athos – http://abacus.bates.edu/~rallison/
18th Century Akathistos manuscript - http://www.culture.gr/2/21/218/218eu/e218eu9.html
Omilos Ellinikon Tekhnon
(Association of Greek Arts) – www.oet.gr
Presvytera Katerina Sitaras Makiej’s Page - http://www.ancienthymns.com/
Touliatos, Doiane: The Status of Byzantine Music through the 21st century - http://www.geocities.com/hellenicmind/music21.html
Byzantine Chant Audio Clips and
Downloads
Byzantine chant: Troparia of the Resurrection sung in
Spanish, with texts (Arzobispado Ortodoxo de Chile – Patriarcado de Antioquia)
- http://www.chileortodoxo.com/troparios.htm
Hymns for Holy Week and Easter -
http://www.apostoliki-diakonia.gr/multimedia/pathos_anastasi/pathos_anastasi.html
The Maistores sing music by
Gregorios –
http://www.apostoliki-diakonia.gr/multimedia/arate_pylas/arate_pylas.html
Byzantine Choir of Volos (M.
Meletis) - http://www.apostoliki-diakonia.gr/multimedia/
Xenophone records - http://www.xenophone.com/records/byzantina.htm
Selections from the Divine Liturgy in English [Fr Frank Marangos]
- http://www.frfrank.addr.com/av.htm
Vyzantinon Melos – http://www.ec-patr.net
Russian chant traditions
Holy Cross Kliros
(musical web project of the Hermitage of the Holy Cross) –
http://www.holycrosskliros.org
New!
Podoben [Vast collection of
scores, in English and Slavonic] – http://www.podoben.com
Russian Orthodox Church Music - http://www.russia-in-us.com/Music/Church/
Russian Orthodox Church
Music - http://www.seminaria.ru/notes/notes.htm
Russian Orthodox Church Music
[Finale and Midi files, extremely slow to load] – http://poltavadu.narod.ru/not.htm
Russian Orthodox Church Music
[Encore and Finale Zip files] – http://www.irs.ru/~james
Russian Orthodox Church Music
[Tarakanov: many zip files] – http://notes.tarakanov.net/sacred.htm
Russian Orthodox Church Music [MP3
files and Sibelius format downloads] – http://liturgy.ru/sib
Russian Orthodox Church Music [Alexander Ledkovsky: Scores in PDF format from the library of the Synod Cathedral Choir] – http://www.rocm.org
Russian Orthodox Church Music
[Pravoslavny Kliros – scores in PDF format from St Vladimir's Monastery,
Ukraine] - http://www.monkhood.narod.ru/kliros.html
Russian Orthodox Church Music
[Scores in TIF format] – http://www.kis.ru/~mahnev/list.htm
Russian Orthodox
Church Music (English arrangements of Russian Liturgical music in PDF
format. Of particular interest is a growing collection of stichera
for feasts arranged to the Russian Podoben melodies) - http://music.russianorthodox-stl.org New!
Vladimir Mazevich's
"Malen'ky Kliros" site: fascinating collection of downloadable scores
in Noteworthy format
[NB: you will need Noteworthy Reader to see these if you do not have the full version; you will also need to download Izhitsa and Irmologion Cyrillic fonts – See below under Language.] - http://vovsite.narod.ru
Muzyka Diaspor [downloadable zipped TIF format scores] - http://www.music.diaspora.ru/notes/alphabet/k.shtml
Trio: Scores and liturgical texts - http://m82.ipmce.ru/trio/
Maksim Berezovsky Site [scores
in pdf format] - http://berezmusic.narod.ru/notes.html
Obikhod Zip files – http://www.sampo.karelia.ru/~iessey/ieroe.html
Michael Duke’s collection of downloadable scores [much unusual repertoire] – http://saintmichaels.info/music
Matthias Wilke’s site with downloadable scores in PDF format - http://me.in-berlin.de/~viola/Download/
Krylóshanin site [much Valaam
chant] – http://kryloshanin.narod.ru
Kurt Sander’s Orthodox Choral
Music page –
http://www.nku.edu/~sanderk/choralscores.html
Music by Denis Buryakov – http://musiclib.mmv.ru
Music by Vladimir Fayner - http://www.fainer.com.ua
New!
Music by Vladimir Kovaldzhi – http://kanal.narod.ru/vk/frames.html
Music by Pavel Pavlovich Morozov
– http://morozovp.boom.ru/Data/Start.htm
Music by S. Tolstakulakov - http://www.nvkz.kuzbass.net/p-vesti/hor/notes/notes1_e.htm
Music library site with small
sacred music section – http://nlib.narod.ru/index.html
Vast collection of troparia and
kontakia – http://troparion.narod.ru/index.htm
Podoben
site: Score downloads in English – www.podoben.com
St Romanos the Melodist Society - http://www.saintromanos.org/
Old Slavonic manuscripts –
Hilandar Research Library, Ohio – http://cmrs.osu.edu/rcmss/
Obshtezhitie
[Ralph Cleminson] – http://www.ceu.hu/medstud/ralph/obsht.htm
History of Znamenny chant [Dawn Gauthier] – http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/4612/znamenny.htm
An Outline History of Russian Sacred Music [Ivan Moody] - http://members.lycos.co.uk/ivanmoody/articles.russiansacredmusic.htm
Slavonic Liturgical Resources – http://www.troparion.narod.ru
OCA Liturgical Music Page
[Downloadable troparia and kontakia in English] –
http://www.oca.org/pages/orth_chri/Publications/music/index.html
Akathist of Thanksgiving (Fr
Gregory Petrov) CD recording sung with Little Compline in English –
http://saintignatiuschurch.org/akathistcd.html
Russian Chant Audio Clips and
Downloads
Russian Orthodox Church Music [Finale and Midi files, extremely slow to load] – http://poltavadu.narod.ru/not.htm
Russian Orthodox Church Music
[MP3 files and Sibelius format downloads] – http://liturgy.ru/sib and http://en.liturgy.ru/zvuk/index.php
Russian chant – Valaam
Monastery: Real Audio clips - http://www.voskres.ru/pesni/music/brval.htm
Russian liturgical music MP3s: an extensive collection – http://www.liturgy.ru/zvuk/
Russian Audio
File Downloads - http://blagovest.org.ru/modules/audio/viewcat.php?cid=7
Russian Audio
File Downloads - http://biblion.realin.ru/listing/?path=audio (If you receive an “invalid file”
message while attempting to download, go back by means of the audio button [not
by the browser’s “back” button] and download should then proceed with no
problem.)
Russian Audio
File Downloads - http://www.lestvitsa-orthodox.dp.ua/mp3.php.
Chants for the Annunciation MP3 format - http://www.rus-sky.org/deisus/eng/s3.htm
Various soundclips – http://orthotracts.org/musicpage.html
Recordings by the Choir of St
Seraphim of Sarov Church, Santa Rosa – http://www.glendi.net/cd/
Selections from the Divine Liturgy http://www.byzantines.net/realaudio/
Selections from the Divine Liturgy from St Elias Ukrainian Greek
Catholic parish, Toronto -
http://www.saintelias.com/Music/DivLtgyCd/DivLtgyCd.html
Other services from St Elias - http://www.saintelias.com/Music/Music/Music.html
Other Slavic chant
traditions
Carpatho-Russian chant sound files - http://www.acrod.org/music.html
Prostopinije Chant – http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/spirit/chant.htm
Ruthenian Chant
- http://www.patronagechurch.com/PDF/Prostopinije/prostopinije_index.htm
Metropolitan Cantor Institute of
the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh - www.metropolitancantorinstitute.org
Vox Bulgarica Music Publishing –
http://www.voxbulgar.com
Serbian music clips – http://www.serbianorthodoxchurch.net/music/
Serbian music clips - http://www.sv-luka.org/chants/index.html
Vox Serbicus Serbian music clips,
scores and articles – http://www.spdnz.org
Nikola Resanovic’s arrangements
of Serbian chant in English – http://www.nikolaresanovic.com/
Serbian chant
for Matins & Vespers - http://www.svetosavlje.org/pojanje/jdngls.htm
Serbian Liturgy music - http://www.sv-luka.org/pevnica/index1.htm
Serbian scores -
http://www.sv-djordje.co.sr/
Arrangements of Obikhod, Carpatho-Rusyn, Galician and other chants by Sloan Rolando – http://www.geocities.com/unmercenary/index.html
Liturgical MP3s from Slovakia – http://grkat.nfo.sk/hudba/index.html
Liturgical MP3s from Bulgaria and Armenia - http://www.iccs.bas.bg/music/gega/songs.html
Sotir Golabovksi’s research on
Macedonian chant ADD - http://www.mmc.edu.mk/Londonconfe/Roza.htm
Edition of Vedel’s Sacred works - http://ecn.ab.ca/ukraine/vedel.html
Spanish Orthodox
church, Serbian Patriarcate [includes MP3 files] - www.iglesiaortodoxa.es
Romanian Chant
Centrul de Studii Bizantine Iasi
[includes the journal Acta Musicae Bizantinae and details of other
publications] – http://www.csbi.ro/gb/index.html
Liturgical MP3s, of Romanian chant
and also chant from a number of other traditions – http://www.ortodoxism.ro/Muzica.shtml
Romanian Chant –
Many MP3 audio files from various choirs (click “Cant Bizantin”) - http://www.resurse-ortodoxe.com/
Sound clips – http://Biserica.org
Romanian Colinde MP3s - http://www.crestinism-ortodox.ro/html/09/9d_colinde.html
Georgian Chant
Georgian sacred and ritual music: History and tradition – http://www.angelfire.com/ga/Georgian/music.html
Georgian music Midis and MP3s - http://sisauri.tripod.com/audio/real.htm
Georgian chant MP3s (listed in
Georgian only) - http://orthodoxy.wanex.net/galoba.php
Informative page about Georgian music - http://www.argosoft.com/kavkasia/album2/intro.htm
Georgian polyphony: extensive
site, still under construction - http://www.polyphony.ge/en/homepage/home.php
Armenian Chant
Armenian music page - http://www.hyeetch.nareg.com.au/culture/music_p2.html
Christianity and Armenian Culture: Music - http://www.armeniafest.com/history/armenian_culture_music.html
Sacred Music in the Armenian Church (includes Music of the Badarak, with MP3 files, liturgical commentary, texts and much else) - http://www.armenianchurch.org/worship/music/music.html
Komitas page including his autobiography - http://15levels.com/24.April/html/komitas.html
Armenia: Sacred Choral Music [discs] - http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/cds/clt13115.htm
Armenia Music Guide - http://www.furious.com/perfect/armenia.html
Unesco Collection of Music of
the World: Armenia –
http://www.unesco.org/culture/cdmusic/html_eng/armenia.shtm
Parseghian
Records - http://www.parseghianrecords.com/
Syrian Chant
Syrian Liturgical chant - http://www.malabar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/liturgy.htm
Coptic Chant
Coptic Music Audio Files – http://st-takla.org/Multimedia/_Multimedia-index.html
Coptic site including Psalmody
of the Midnight Praises in English [St. Anthony Monastery in California] – http://tasbeha.org/
Coptic Liturgy of St Gregory (mostly in English) -
http://www.haya.org/Orthodox_masses/FrShenouda_dous_Eng_liturgy_ram.ram
Agpeya chanted in English - http://www.agpeya.org/Chanting_the_Agpeya/chanting_the_agpeya.html
Vespers Praises - http://www.stgeorgejc.org/service/vesper.htm Includes text, in English, displayed in English
in flash movie format.
Ethiopian Chant
Ethiopian Liturgy – MP3 files
and PDF file of Amharic Hymn Book - http://ethiopianorthodox.org/music/songs.htm
St Raphael of Brooklyn
Reader Andrew Moulton’s very complete site for St Raphael of Brooklyn - http://www.angelfire.com/pa3/straphaelcanonized/
Miscellaneous
Eastern Orthodox Liturgics: Chant development – http://www.liturgica.com/html/litEOLitMusDev.jsp
Otherwordly Music [audio clips] - http://www.stinnocent.com/seraphim/music.htm
"Texts for the Study of Music and Song in the History of Orthodox Liturgical Worship" by David Drillock - http://www.jacwell.org/Liturgical%20Music/texts_for_the_study_of_music_and.htm
The PSALM site - http://www.orthodoxpsalm.org/
The Tuning Fork: A Newsletter for the Orthodox Church Sinher - http://www.jacwell.org/the_tuning_fork/issue_1.htm
"Words and Music in Orthodox Worship" - http://www.liturgica.com/html/litEOLitMusDev3.jsp
Choirs, Ensembles and Chanters
Choirs
and Ensembles
Association of Armenian Church
Choirs of America - http://www.sograd.com/aacca/
Cappella Romana - http://www.cappellaromana.org/frames1.htm
Chanter's association of Messologi, Greece - http://www.i-m-patron.gr/a.anthimos/
Deisus Male Voice Choir - http://www.rus-sky.org/deisus/
Greek Byzantine Choir – http://www.cs.duke.edu/~mgl/gbc/
Choir of George Kakoulidis - http://www.byzantinemusic.gr/
Holy Myrrhbearers Women's Choir
– http://www.womenschoir.org
Komitas
Chamber Choir - http://www.armenianchurch.org/worship/music/komitas.html
The
Kyiv Chamber Choir - http://www.cck.kiev.ua/en/cd.htm
The Maistores - http://www.apostoliki-diakonia.gr/multimedia/psalate_synetos/psalate_synetos.html
Middlebury Russian Choir - http://community.middlebury.edu/~moss/MRC.html
Makell's
Voices - http://www.csd.auth.gr/~dpolitis/Byzantine_music/default.html
Musicus
Bornianskii - http://www.musicusbortnianskii.com
Rossica
Choir - http://rossica.8m.com/
Russian
Patriarchate Choir - http://www.grindenko.com/index1.html
Slavyanka – http://www.slavyanka.org/index.html
South Australia
Byzantine choir - http://home.it.net.au/~jgrapsas/pages/choir.htm
Spirit of
Orthodoxy - http://www.spiritoforthodoxy.com
St Sergius of
Radonezh Parish Choir (Parma, Ohio) - http://www.st-sergius.org/choir.html
New!
Georgian Choir of Tbilisi - http://www.prus.pl/ortho/main.html
The Rustavi Choir - http://imusic.artistdirect.com/showcase/contemporary/rustavichoir.html
Kostas Zorbas & Choir - http://www.zorba-music.gr/
Chanters
Bells
Blagovest Bells – www.russianbells.com
Michele E. Prokopchak: The Bells of Russia - www.cs.yale.edu/~douglas-craig/bells/Basic/zvons.html
Russian bells - www.kolokola.ru/
The Bell Museum http://eng.novgorod-museum.ru/museums/fil/valdai.shtml
The Lowell House bells [17 Russian bells] http://lowell.student.harvard.edu/Bells/
Article on Russian bells - www.nytimes.com/learning/students/pop/012600russia-bells.html
Kolokola - http://www.struggler.org/kolokola.html
Index relating to carillons and other tower bells, including Zvons - http://www.gcna.org/data/Data_Top.html
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