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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. Their apolytikia and kontakia are ready now. Music for the other troparia (doxastica, idiomela, etc.) on these days might be ready by January of 2010.
+ 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 2011.
+ Days not highlighted are minor days without doxastica. Their apolytikia are ready now.
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 January |
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| 1 - Circumcision of Christ; St. Basil the Great | ||
| 2 - The Forefeast of Theophany | ||
| 2 - St. Sylvester, Pope of Rome | ||
| 2 - St. Seraphim of Sarov | ||
| 3 - Prophet Malachias | ||
| 3 - St. Gordius | ||
| 4 - Synaxis of the 70 Apostles | ||
| 4 - St. Theoctistus | ||
| 5 - Sts. Theopemptus and Theonas | ||
| 5 - St. Syncletike | ||
| 5 - The Royal Hours | ||
| 6 - The Theophany of Christ | ||
| 7 - Synaxis of St. John the Forerunner | ||
| 8 - St. Domnica | ||
| 8 - St. George of Hozeva | ||
| 9 - St. Polyeuctus | ||
| 9 - St. Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow | ||
| 10 - St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Dometian | ||
| 11 - St. Theodosius the Cenobiarch | ||
| 12 - St. Tatiana of Rome | ||
| 13 - Sts. Hermylus and Stratonicus | ||
| 13 - St. Hilary of Poitiers | ||
| 14 - Righeous Martyrs of Sinai and Raithu | ||
| 14 - St. Nina of Georgia | ||
| 14 - St. Sabbas of Serbia | ||
| 15 - St. Paul of Thebes | ||
| 15 - St. John the Hut-dweller | ||
| 16 - Veneration of the Chains of the Apostle Peter | ||
| 17 - St. Anthony the Great | ||
| 18 - Sts. Athanasius and Cyril | ||
| 19 - St. Macarius of Egypt | ||
| 19 - St. Arsenius of Corfu | ||
| 19 - St. Mark of Ephesus | ||
| 20 - St. Euthymius the Great | ||
| 21 - St. Maximus the Confessor | ||
| 21 - St. Neophytus | ||
| 22 - Apostle Timothy | ||
| 22 - St. Anastasius | ||
| 22-28 Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Russia | ||
| 23 - St. Clement of Ancyra | ||
| 23 - St. Agathangelus | ||
| 24 - St. Neophytus of Cyprus | ||
| 24 - St. Xenia of Rome | ||
| 24 - St. Xenia of St. Petersburg | ||
| 25 - St. Gregory the Theologian | ||
| 25 - St. Anatolius of Optina | ||
| 26 - St. Xenophon | ||
| 27 - St. John Chrysostom | ||
| 28 - St. Ephraim the Syrian | ||
| 28 - St. Isaac the Syrian | ||
| 29 - St. Ignatius the God-bearer | ||
| 30 - The Three Hierarchs | ||
| 31 - Sts. Cyrus and John the Unmercenaries | ||
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To download all music for January in Byzantine notation, click here (126 pages, 10 Mb)
To download all apolytikia for the entire year in Byzantine notation, click here (1467 pages)
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While the music is copyright St. Anthony’s Monastery, the texts are copyright Holy Transfiguration Monastery, and may not be further distributed or used in sound or print publications or otherwise without the prior written permission of Holy Transfiguration Monastery.
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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
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