The Crucifixion
Doxologies
Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom
St. Basil's Divine Liturgy
Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts
St. James' Liturgy
Vespers
Orthros
Mysteries
Menaion (Feast Days)
Triodion and Pentecostarion

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Note:

The Apolytikia for Holy Week are ready now. Music for the other troparia on these days will be composed later.

 
 
Triodion
 
 
 Holy Week
 Holy and Great Monday
 Holy and Great Tuesday
 Holy and Great Wednesday
 Holy and Great Thursday
 Holy and Great Friday
 Holy and Great Saturday
 
 
Pascha and the Pentecostarion

To download all music for Holy Week in Byzantine notation, click here (12 pages, 740 Kb)

Note: Clicking a "Hear" link will open a MIDI file, which can be played by your computer's media player. All these MIDI files are very small (less than 10 Kb). Bear in mind that a computer plays these files using an equal-tempered scale, which does not always correspond precisely to the actual pitches of Byzantine scales.

The translation used for these hymns of Holy Week is copyrighted by the Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Brookline and is used with their permission. We chose their translation because many people throughout the world hold their liturgical translations in high regard due to their precision, meter, and elegance.


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Prologue by Gregorios Stathis

Concerning Adaptation

Byzantine vs. Western Notation


About the Translation

The History of Byzantine Chant


Writing Byzantine Music


Epilogue by
  Photios Kontoglou


The Intervals of the Soft Chromatic Modal Genre

The Intonations of the Eight Modes

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