Byzantine Chant Resources

General Resources

• Byzantine Chant Studies
• Basics of Byzantine Chant
Aa basic overview of the foundational issues involved in approaching
Byzantine musicology, such as scale and tempo, as well as common terminology
and tonal organization.
• Frequently Asked Questions about Byzantine Chant.
Pavlos Papadakis.
Byzantine chant
• ByzantineChant.com
"The on-line resource for chanters, brought to you by chanters."
Byzantine Chant
by Nicholas Giannoukakis, Psaltis at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church in Laval, Quebec
• Psaltic Notes
by Fr. Constantine Terss
Byzantine Chant Lessons
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Modern scholarly studies of Byzantine musical tradition.
Also has RealAudio and MP3 files of some Byzantine hymns.

Audio

• Audio Clips of Various Byzantine Tones
• Choir Resources
Of the St John the Theologian parish choir
PDF Sheet Music and MIDI, with some MP3 clips of much music.
• Serbian Orthodox Choral Chants
MANY Selections!
• Medieval Orthodox Chants

The Tones
Articles explaining the Byzantine Tonal System

• Tone 1
• Tone 2
• Tone 3
• Tone 4
• Tone 5, or Plagal of 1

Russian Chant Resources

• Znamenny Chant
• MUSICA RUSSICA:
The Russian Choral Music Source

Sheet Music General Resouces

• Choir Resources
Of the St John the Theologian parish choir
A Rich resource! PDF Sheet Music and MIDI clips of much music.
An added bonus: no "You Who" phrases found here!
Many of the Specific selections listed are from this page.
• Sheet music in Western notation of Byzantine Tones
PDF Format.
• EBYPES Project
Devoted to digitizing psaltic notation for the purpose of making the publication of books of chant easier. They have a very handsome sample taken from a recently published book of the
• Akathist Hymn.
Byzantine Chant. Very Beautiful, but Greek to me!
• E-Text Greek Liturgical Texts
Including parts of the Menaion, Horologion, Oktoechos, Triodion and Pentekostarion.
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Modern scholarly studies of Byzantine musical tradition.
Also has RealAudio and MP3 files of some Byzantine hymns.

Sheet Music

Divine Liturgy

• Great Litany
Romanian Tradition as published by St Vladimir Seminary Press
Only-Begotten Son, in Tone 2
Harmonized Byzantine chant
• "As Many As Have Been Baptized"
Harmonized Byzantine chant, Tone 1
• Alleluia before the Gospel - Tone 2
Znamenny chant, harmonized by Arkhangelsky
• Cherubic hymn
Based on old Russian Chant, harmonized by Lvovsky as published by St Vladimir Seminary Press
• Anaphora of the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom - Tone 8
Harmonized Byzantine chant
• Anaphora of the Liturgy of St Basil in Tone 8
Harmonized Byzantine chant
• It Is Truly Meet
Based on a variant of so-called "Bulgarian Chant" in Tone 1, by Dmitri Yaichkov to the melody "from Mount Athos"
• In Thee, O Full of Grace - Tone 5
Harmonized Byzantine Chant
• "Receive the Body of Christ" - Tone 5
Harmonized Byzantine chant
• Liturgy Ending in Tone 2
Harmonized Novgorod chant

Troparia

• "Before Thy Cross"
Traditional Russian melody
• Apolytikion of St John the Theologian - Tone 2
Harmonized Byzantine chant

Common Hymns

O Lord, Keep Unto Many Years - Tone 2
Harmonized Byzantine chant

Presanctified Liturgy

• Great Litany for weekdays of Great Lent, Tone 1
• Little Litany for weekdays of Great Lent, Tone 1
• Lord, I have cried, Tone 1
• Lord, I have cried, Tone 2
• Lord, I have cried, Tone 4
• Lord, I have cried, Tone 8
• Let My Prayer Arise, Tone 6
• Let My Prayer Arise, Tone 5
• Now The Powers Of Heaven, Tone 8
By Sakallerides
• Koinonikon "O Taste And See", Tone 8.
• "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord...", Tone 1
• "I will bless the Lord at all times...", Tone 2
• "Let our mouths be filled...", Tone 2

Russian and Slavic Choirs

• Golosa - The University of Chicago Russian Choir (Chicago, IL)
• The Middlebury University Russian Choir (Middlebury, VT)
• Rusalka, the Ohio State University Slavic Chorus (Columbus, OH)
Russian Chamber Chorus of New York (New York, NY)
• Slavyanka Men's Chorus (San Francisco, CA)
• The Yale Russian Chorus (New Haven, CT)

Links

Etc

• Gregorian chant in the West
by Prof. Peter Jeffery of Princeton University
• Some Personal Thoughts on the Composition of Liturgical Music
by Fr. Sergei Glagolev