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Key to Color Coding:
+ 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 November 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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| 1 - St. Cosmas and Damian | ||
| 2 - Sts. Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus, and Anempodistus | ||
| 3 - Sts. Acepsimas, Joseph, and Aethalas | ||
| 3 - Consecration of St. George's Church in Lydda | ||
| 4 - St. Joannicius the Great | ||
| 4 - St. Nicander of Myra | ||
| 5 - Sts. Galaction and Episteme | ||
| 6 - St. Paul the Confessor | ||
| 7 - The Holy 33 Martyrs of Melitene | ||
| 7 - St. Lazarus of Mt. Galesion | ||
| 8 - Synaxis of the Archangels | ||
| 9 - St. Nectarios of Aegina | ||
| 9 - Sts. Onesiphorus and Porphyrius | ||
| 9 - St. Matrona | ||
| 10 - Apostles Olympas, Rodion, Erastus, Sosipater, and Quartus | ||
| 10 - St. Orestes | ||
| 11 - St. Menas | ||
| 11 - Sts. Menas, Victor, Vincent, and Stephanie | ||
| 11 - St. Theodore the Studite | ||
| 12 - St. John the Almsgiver | ||
| 12 - St. Martin of Tours | ||
| 12 - St. Nilus of Sinai | ||
| 13 - St. John Chrysostom | ||
| 14 - Apostle Philip | ||
| 14 - St. Gregory Palamas | ||
| 15 - Sts. Shamuna, Guria, and Habib | ||
| 15 - St. Paisius Velichkovsky | ||
| 15 - St. Herman of Alaska | ||
| 16 - Apostle Matthew the Evangelist | ||
| 17 - St. Gregory of Neocaesarea | ||
| 17 - St. Hilda of Whitby | ||
| 18 - Sts. Plato and Romanus | ||
| 19 - Prophet Abdias | ||
| 19 - St. Barlaam | ||
| 20 - The Forefeast of the Entry of the Theotokos | ||
| 20 - Sts. Gregory and Proclus | ||
| 21 - The Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple | ||
| 22 - Sts. Philemon, Apphia, Archippus, and Onesimus | ||
| 22 - Sts. Cecilia, Valerian, and Tiburtius | ||
| 23 - St. Amphilochius of Iconium | ||
| 24 - St. Clement of Rome and St. Peter of Alexandria | ||
| 25 - St. Catherine; St. Mercurius | ||
| 26 - St. Alypius the Stylite | ||
| 26 - St. Nicon "Repent Ye" | ||
| 26 - St. Stylianos | ||
| 27 - St. James the Persian | ||
| 28 - St. Stephen the New | ||
| 28 - St. Irenarchus | ||
| 29 - Sts. Paramonus and Philumenus | ||
| 30 - Apostle Andrew | ||
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To download all music for November in Byzantine notation, click here (112 pages, 10 Mb)
To download all apolytikia for the entire year in Byzantine notation, click here (0000 pages, 000 Mb)
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