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+ 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 2009.
+ 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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 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 (0000 pages, 000 Mb)
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.
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Photios Kontoglou
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