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Key to Color Coding:
+ Days highlighted in yellow are major feast days that are done. Music for their apolytikia, kontakia, idiomela, and doxastica are ready now.
+ Days highlighted in green are major feast days that are partially complete. Their apolytikia and kontakia are ready now. Music for the other troparia (doxastica, idiomela, etc.) on these days might be ready by December of 2008.
+ Days highlighted in blue are minor feast days. Their apolytikia are ready now. Music for the rest of the troparia on these days should be ready in 2010.
+ Days not highlighted are minor days without doxastica. Their apolytikia are ready now.
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 December |
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| 1 - Prophet Nahum | ||
| 1 - St. Philaret the Almsgiver | ||
| 2 - Prophet Abbacum | ||
| 3 - Prophet Sophonias | ||
| 4 - St. Barbara; St. John of Damascus | ||
| 5 - St. Sabbas the Sanctified | ||
| 6 - St. Nicholas of Myra | ||
| 7 - St. Ambrose of Milan | ||
| 8 - St. Patapius | ||
| 9 - St. Anne's Conception of the Theotokos; The Consecration | ||
| 10 - Sts. Menas, Eugraphus, and Hermogenes | ||
| 11-17 The Sunday of the Holy Forefathers | ||
| 11 - St. Daniel the Stylite | ||
| 12 - St. Spyridon | ||
| 12 - St. Herman of Alaska | ||
| 12 - St. Peter the Aleut | ||
| 13 - Holy Five Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius, and Orestes | ||
| 13 - St. Lucia of Sicily | ||
| 14 - Sts. Thyrsus, Leucius, and Callinicus | ||
| 15 - St. Eleutherius | ||
| 16 - Prophet Aggaeus | ||
| 16 - St. Theophano the Empress | ||
| 17 - Prophet Daniel and the Three Children | ||
| 17 - St. Dionysius of Zakynthos | ||
| 18-24 The Sunday Before the Nativity | ||
| 18 - St. Sebastian | ||
| 19 - St. Boniface | ||
| 20 - The Forefeast of the Nativity | ||
| 20 - St. Ignatius the God-bearer | ||
| 21 - St. Juliana | ||
| 21 - St. Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow | ||
| 22 - St. Anastasia | ||
| 23 - Holy Ten Martyrs of Crete | ||
| 24 - St. Eugenia | ||
| 24 - The Royal Hours | ||
| 25 - The Nativity of Christ | ||
| 26 - Synaxis of the Theotokos | ||
| 26-31 - Sunday After the Nativity | ||
| 27 - St. Stephen the Archdeacon ; St. Theodore the Branded | ||
| 28 - Holy 20,000 Martyrs in Nicomedia | ||
| 29 - Holy 14,000 Infants Slain by Herod | ||
| 29 - St. Marcellus | ||
| 30 - St. Anysia | ||
| 31 - St. Melania of Rome | ||
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To download all music for December in Byzantine notation, click here (174 pages, 10 Mb)
To download all apolytikia for the entire year in Byzantine notation, click here (0000 pages, 000 Mb)
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Epilogue by
Photios Kontoglou
The Intervals of the Soft Chromatic Modal Genre
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