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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 May of 2009.
+ Days highlighted in blue are minor feast days. Their apolytikia are ready now. Music for other troparia on these days might be ready in 2010.
+ Days not highlighted are minor days without doxastica. Their apolytikia are ready now.
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| 1 - Prophet Jeremias | ||
| 1 - St. Tamara, Queen of Georgia | ||
| 1 - Sts. Euthymius, Ignatius, and Acacius | ||
| 2 - Translation of the Relics of St. Athanasius the Great | ||
| 3 - Sts. Timothy and Maura | ||
| 3 - St. Theodosius, Abbot of the Kiev Caves Lavra | ||
| 4 - St. Pelagia | ||
| 5 - St. Irene the Great Martyr | ||
| 6 - Righteous Job | ||
| 7 - Appearance of the Cross | ||
| 8 - St. John the Theologian; St. Arsenius the Great | ||
| 9 - Prophet Esaias (Isaiah) | ||
| 9 - St. Joseph of Optina | ||
| 9 - St. Christopher | ||
| 10 - Apostle Simon the Zealot | ||
| 11 - Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Enlighteners of the Slavs | ||
| 11 - St. Mocius | ||
| 12 - St. Epiphanius of Cyprus; St. Germanus of Constantinople | ||
| 13 - St. Glyceria | ||
| 14 - St. Isidore of Chios | ||
| 15 - St. Pachomius the Great | ||
| 15 - St. Achillius the Wonderworker | ||
| 16 - St. Theodore the Sanctified | ||
| 17 - Sts. Andronicus and Junia | ||
| 18 - Sts. Peter, Dionysius, Christina, Andrew, Paul, Benedimus, Paulinus, and Heraclius | ||
| 19 - Sts. Patrick, Acacius, Menander, and Polyaenus | ||
| 20 - St. Thalleleus | ||
| 20 - St. Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow | ||
| 21 - Sts. Constantine and Helen | ||
| 22 - St. Basiliscus | ||
| 23 - St. Michael the Confessor, Bishop of Synnada | ||
| 24 - St. Symeon of the Wondrous Mountain | ||
| 24 - St. Vincent of Lerins | ||
| 25 - Third Finding of the Head of St. John the Forerunner | ||
| 26 - Apostle Carpus | ||
| 27 - St. Helladius | ||
| 27 - St. John the Russian | ||
| 28 - St. Eutychius, Bishop of Melitene | ||
| 29 - St. Theodosia | ||
| 30 - St. Isaacius, Abbot of the Monastery of Dalmatus | ||
| 31 - St. Hermias | ||
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To download all music for May in Byzantine notation, click here (86 pages, 6.5 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
The Intonations of the Eight Modes
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