Links relating to the Liturgy and Music of the

Orthodox Church

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This page is a constantly expanding collection of links to sites dealing specifically with the liturgy and music of the Orthodox Church; for a huge listing of Orthodox links of all kinds, go to: http://aggreen.net/orth_links/orthlink.html.

Other very useful sites are:

www.unicorne.org/orthodoxy/liens/art.htm

http://www.serbianorthodoxchurch.com/pages/other/links/index.html

http://home.t-online.de/home/niko.wy/links.htm

 

Note: Included in this list are websites of Roman Catholic and Non-Chalcedonian Churches of relevance for liturgical and musical research.

 

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Documentation

Encyclopaedia of Early Church History – http://cedar.evansville.edu/~ecoleweb

Early Church Fathers – http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/

The St Pachomius Library - http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/St.Pachomius/

Patristic and Devotional resources - http://www.goarch.org/access/devotional/

The Apostolic Constitutions - http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-07/anf07-38.htm

Justin Martyr’s First Apology - http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-01/anf01-46.htm#P3903_733473

 

Supplies

Annunciation Press - http://www.apicons.com/

Arimathea - http://www.arimathea.co.uk/cds.htm

Cal-Hellas Catalogue - http://www.calhellas.com/

Conciliar Press - http://www.christianity.com/conciliarpress

Dumbarton Oaks Publications List - http://www.doaks.org/Publications.html

Eastern Christian Supply Internet Store – http://www.easternchristian.com/

Editions du Cerf - http://www.editionsducerf.fr/home.asp

Holoviak’s Church Supplies http://www.holoviak.com

Holy Land Mail [Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox recordings from the Holy Land] - http://www.holylandmall.net/easmusfromho.html

Holy Cross Bookstore - http://www.goarch.org/access/hcbks/

Icon and Book Service – http://www.iconbook.org/index.html

Istok Enterprises - http://www.istok.net/

Light & Life http://www.light-n-life.com/

Liturgix - http://www.liturgix.com/

Monastery Icons - http://www.monasteryicons.com

Musica Russica [recordings and sheet music] – http://www.musicarussica.com

Narek [Armenian books and recordings] - http://www.narek.com/

Nativity of the Theotokos Monastery Publications - http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/resource/theotokos_cat.html

Oklahoma Orthodox Christians for Life - http://www.orthodox.org/oocl/

Orthodox Byzantine Icons – http://www.skete.com/

Pascha Books - http://www.paschabooks.com/mall/

St Tikhon’s Seminary Press - http://www.stots.edu

St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary – http://www.svots.edu

Theologic Systems software – http://www.theologic.com/

Theophano Verlag, Münster - http://www.theophano.de/index.html

Ukrainian Bookstore - http://www.ukrainianbookstore.com

UMKA Ukrainian music - http://www.umka.com.ua/eng/fresky02.shtml

 

Bible Resources

Multilingual Bibles and concordances for downloading – http://www.onlinebible.org

Orthodox Study Bible Old Testament Project – http://www.lxx.org

 

The Eucharist and the Theology of the Eucharist

Worship and Sacraments (Church of Serbia Website) - http://www.decani.yunet.com/doctrine3.html

A Brief Explanation of the Divine Liturgy with photographs - http://www.zeta.org.au/~aofosm/pentec.htm

Fr George Mastrantonis: Introduction to the Divine Liturgy - http://www.goarch.org/access/orthodoxfaith/liturgy.html

Ronald Clausen: The Eucharist - http://members.aol.com/RClau22589/eucharist.html

Irenaeus on the Eucharist - http://www.stjohndc.org/Mysteries/9904r.htm

The Church and the Divine Eucharist according to St Maximos the Confessor (Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos) - http://www.pelagia.org/htm/b12.en.the_mind_of_the_orthodox_church.04.htm

The Holy Eucharist (Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia) - http://cygnus.uwa.edu.au/~jgrapsas/pages/Eucharist.htm

The Holy Eucharist: article by Fr Thomas Fitzgerald – http://www.goarch.org/access/orthodoxfaith/eucharist.html

The Holy Eucharist (OCA Website) –

http://www.oca.org/pages/orth_chri/Orthodox-Faith/Worship/Holy-Eucharist.html

Repentance and the Eucharist: Protopriest V. Potapov - http://orthodox.truepath.com/articles/catholicism/tradtions/Eucharist.htm

 

Liturgy

Liturgical commentaries – http://www.goarch.org/access/orthodoxy/

Extensive liturgical resources – http://pages.prodigy.net/frjohnwhiteford/

More liturgical resources – http://www.michael-bishop.com

Liturgical resources and music – http://www.antiochan.org/Midwest/Liturgics/index.htm

Liturgical translations in Chinese - http://pages.prodigy.net/frjohnwhiteford/chinese.htm

Liturgical translations in Danish (Divine Liturgy) - http://www.ortodoks.dk/hl_johannes_chrysostomos.htm

Liturgical translations in English – http://www.bright.net/~palamas/CyberPsaltiri/

Liturgical translations in English – http://www.anastasis.org.uk

Liturgical translations in English, French and Arabic - http://www.balamandmonastery.org.lb/Litrugics.htm

Liturgical translations in French: links - http://pages.prodigy.net/frjohnwhiteford/french.htm

Liturgical translations in Italian. Portuguese and Spanish – http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ivanmoody/liturgicaltexts.htm

Liturgical translations in Italian - http://digilander.iol.it/ortodossia/Liturgia.htm

Liturgical translations in Japanese: links - http://pages.prodigy.net/frjohnwhiteford/japanese.htm

Liturgical translations in (Brazilian) Portuguese - http://www.fatheralexander.org/page26.htm

Liturgical translations in Romanian - http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/romanian/orologion/ceaslov.htm

Liturgical translations in Spanish - http://www.fatheralexander.org/page30.htm

Liturgical translations in Swedish - http://hem.passagen.se/ortodoxi/litur/index.htm

Liturgical texts: Fr Leo Schefe’s e-text versions of Greek liturgical texts. Includes the Menaion, Horologion, Oktoechos, Triodion and Pentecostarion – http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/lessthan/1725/texts/index.htm

Liturgical texts in Slavonic – links - http://pages.prodigy.net/frjohnwhiteford/slavonic.htm

Liturgical texts and translations in various languages (and much else) – http://www.myriobiblos.gr

Liturgical material (Melkite) - http://www.typicon.com/

Liturgical and spiritual material: Monachos.net - http://www.monachos.net/index.shtml

The Akathistos Hymn in Greek - http://www.epopteia.net/notebook/akathisthymn.htm

The Akathistos Hymn in English - http://www.cygnus.uwa.edu.au/~jgrapsas/pages/Akathist.htm

The Akathistos Hymn in English: another version - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/akathis.html

The Akathistos Hymn: another link: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/8848/akathistos.htm

The Akathistos Hymn in Italian (incomplete) - http://digilander.iol.it/ortodossia/Akathistos.htm

The Akathistos Hymn in Polish - http://www.archidiecezja.lodz.pl/czytelni/akatyst.html

The Akathistos Hymn in Portuguese – http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ivanmoody/liturgicaltexts.port.akathistos.htm

The Akathistos Hymn in Spanish (metrical version) - http://members.es.tripod.de/Piedrablanca/id74.htm

The Akathistos Hymn in Swedish - http://hem.passagen.se/ortodoxi/litur/Akathistos.htm

The Akathist of Thanksgiving (Fr Gregory Petrov) - http://www.nireland.com/orthodox/akathist.htm

Anastásima in Greek - http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/greek/anastasima.html

Compline and the Midnight Office - http://www.sspeterpaul.org/Compline.htm

Great Compline - http://pages.prodigy.net/frjohnwhiteford/great_compline.htm

Little Compline - http://pages.prodigy.net/frjohnwhiteford/smallcompline.htm

The Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom in Greek - http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/greek/chrysostom_liturgy.htm

The Divine Liturgies of St John Chrysostom and St Basil in English - http://www.sourozh.org/liturgy/liturgy.htm

The Divine Liturgy of St James - http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0717.htm

The Divine Liturgy of St James (Fr Ephrem Lash’s translation) - http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ephrem/lit-james.htm

Another link - http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-07/anf07-63.htm

The Divine Liturgy of St Mark – http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0718.htm

Another link - http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-07/anf07-64.htm

Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts (Byzantine Catholic version) –

http://www.cris.com/~bronson/st-anne/rituals/presanct.html

Little Compline - http://www.orthodox.net/services/horologn/smalcomp.htm?airmail

Little Compline with the Canon of Preparation for Holy Communion - http://www.interlog.com/~abouna/liturgics/liturgics.htm

Liturgical petitions for those persecuted in Serbia - http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/liturgy/serbian.html

Liturgical texts in Greek - http://users.otenet.gr/~abpriest/current.htm

The Sacrament of Marriage - http://a_g_green_jr.tripod.com/betrothal-crowning.html

Menologion download for PC - http://www.the-internet-eye.com/stjohn/menolo~1.htm

Order of the Blessing of New Ecclesiastical Vestments – http://www.holy-trinity.org/liturgics/vestments.html

Order for the Burial of the Dead (Hapgood translation) - http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/death/funeral.htm

Octoechos (Fr Ephrem Lash) - http://www.anastasis.org.uk/oktoich.htm

Octoechos in Slavonic - http://schools.keldysh.ru/pirogovsch/octoechos/

Another Octoechos in Slavonic - http://music.orthodox.org.ru/octoechos/

Weekday Octoechos for Vespers in English - http://www.bright.net/~palamas/CyberPsaltiri/Contents.htm

Panikhida (Slavonic and English) - http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/pannihida_e.htm

The Euchologion (Fr Ephrem Lash) - http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ephrem/eucholog.htm

Prayer Book in English - http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/english/prayerbook/main.htm

Priest’s Service Book [OCA] – http://www.orthodoxnet.com/orthodoxy/

Trebnik in Slavonic – scan of 1882 Moscow edition [JPG format] - http://www.librarium.orthodoxyru/trebnik

The Synaxarion in Greek - http://www.i-m-attikis.gr/html/gr/synaxaristis/syngr.htm

Liturgics – http://www.networks-now.net/litresswraoc/

The Liturgical Cycles and their Significance in Orthodox Chanting and Worship – http://www.stjohnorinda.org/chant.htm

The Synodikon of Orthodoxy - http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ephrem/synodikon.htm

Commentary on the Synodikon of Orthodoxy by Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos - http://www.pelagia.org/htm/b12.en.the_mind_of_the_orthodox_church.09

Selection from the Lenten Triodion – http://stmichael.org/Lent/Triodion.html

Selections from the Lenten Triodion (Fr Ephrem Lash) - http://www.anastasis.org.uk/triodion.htm

The complete Lenten Triodion - http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/prayers/triodion/triodion.html

Compositions by the Nun Kassia – http://ash.swarthmore.edu/mcnamee/Kassiaindex.html

Some texts from the Pentecostarion - http://www.zeta.org.au/~aofosm/pentec.htm

Texts from the Pentecostation (Fr Ephrem Lash) - http://www.anastasis.org.uk/pentecos.htm

Texts for Pentecost - http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/pente.htm#N6

Menaion for 7th May – St Nilus, Wonderworker of Sora – http://www.saintnilus.org/may7.html

Heirmoi of the Nativity Canon – http://www.stjohndc.org/Nativity/Menaion.htm

http://stjohndc.org/Nativity.Menaion.htm

Feastdays and Services to the Theotokos [by Archbishop Demetri] - http://www.antiochian.org/midwest/Articles/FeastsMary.htm

Canon in Honour of the Saints of Britain - http://www.nireland.com/orthodox/canon.htm

Prayer Book - http://www.greece.org/gopatalex/prayers.html

Prayer Book - http://cygnus.uwa.edu.au/~jgrapsas/pages/Prayers.htm

Prayers for Confession - http://dfw.orthodox.net/saint_nicholas/confess/index.htm

Prayers to the Most Holy Theotokos for every day of the week –

http://www.holycross-hermitage.com/pages/Orthodox_Life/theotokos_prayers.htm

Services from the Horologion, Trebnik and Menaion, Akathists and other Prayers - http://www.orthodox.net/services/

The Three Canons - http://www.interlog.com/~abouna/liturgics/liturgics.htm

Thanksgiving after Communion - http://www.interlog.com/~abouna/liturgics/liturgics.htm

Reader Service Horologion - http://pages.prodigy.net/frjohnwhiteford/horologion.htm

Serbian Orthodox Slava service - http://pages.prodigy.net/frjohnwhiteford/patron.htm

Prayer, Vespers, Matins, Hours, Compline, Nocturne (theological commentary) –

http://www.oca.org/pages/orth_chri/Orthodox-Faith/Worship/Prayer.html

Death, Funeral, Requiem (Archpriest Victor Sokolov) - http://www.holy-trinity.org/liturgics/sokolov-death.html

Holy Trinity Cathedral Liturgics Page - http://www.holy-trinity.org/liturgics/

Holy Virgin Mary Cathedral Liturgics Page - http://home.earthlink.net/~orlov/litur.html

Monthly Typikon (New Calendar) - http://www.networks-now.net/litresswraoc/Monthly%20Typicon.htm

Typikon notes - http://www.networks-now.net/litresswraoc/Typicon%20Notes.htm

Troparia and Kontakia of the Day (Old Calendar) - http://pomog.org/hymns.shtml

Songs of the Fathers: Hymnology - http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ephrem/songsof.htm

The Church Year: an explanation - http://cygnus.uwa.edu.au/~jgrapsas/pages/indiction.htm

Spiritual Resources from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the United States – http://www.uocofusa.org/resources/

Paschal Homily of St John Chrysostom – http://www.st-ann-melkite.org/resurrection_homily.htm

Prosphora - http://www.prosphora.org/

What is Liturgy? An essay by Deacon John-Mark Titterington - http://www.orthodox.clara.net/worship.htm#LITURGICAL%20PRAYER

Liturgica.com: "Liturgics and liturgical music in the Judeo-Christian milieu" – http://www.liturgica.com

Liturgical commentary in Spanish - http://www.pro-ortodoxia.f2s.com/

Egeria and the 4th Century Liturgy of Jerusalem - http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mikef/durham/egeria.html

Old Georgian Liturgical Manuscripts Project - http://siufsispc10.unifr.ch/futura_fr/c_project_general.htm?project=1491&group=375

Early printed Slavonic liturgical books: a vast collection of high resolution images of entire books - http://sun450.agir.ru/memory/

The Georgian Lectionary: sources - http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mikef/durham/geolect.html

 

Liturgical Vestments

Liturgical Colours - http://aggreen.net/vestment/liturgical_colors.html

Liturgical Vestments - http://www.crosslink.net/~hrycak/vestment.html

Liturgical Vestments - http://www.ausorthodox.com/vestments/vestments.html

Liturgical Vestments - http://theocacna.freeyellow.com/vestment.htm

Liturgical Vestments - http://www.oca.org/pages/orth_chri/Orthodox-Faith/Worship/Vestments.html

The Garments of Salvation - http://www.kwvestments.com/garments.htm

Vestments of the Ecumenical Patriarch - http://www.patriarchate.org/visit/vestments/

Syrian Orthodox Liturgical Vestments - http://sor.cua.edu/Vestments/

 

Western Rite

Selected liturgical links, many relating to Western Rite - http://sspeterpaul.org/LiturgyLinks.htm

Western Rite Liturgy Page - http://www.neosoft.com/~gwj/liturgy.htm

Western Rite links - http://www.odox.net/Liturgy-Links.htm

Celtic rite (Stow Missal) - http://www.celticchristianity.org/stowe.html

 

Armenian Liturgy

Divine Liturgy of the Armenian Church - http://www.cilicia.com/armo_badarak00.html

Analysis of the Armenian Liturgy (very complete) - http://www.geocities.com/dershnork/divine_lit.html

Commentary on the Armenian Liturgy - http://www.armenianheritage.com/redivine.htm

The Armenian Jerusalem Lectionary - http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mikef/durham/armlect.html
 

Syriac Liturgy

Syriac Orthodox Liturgies - http://sor.cua.edu/BHCybLib.html

Anaphoras: The Book of the Divine Liturgies of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch - http://sor.cua.edu/Liturgy/Anaphora/index.html

Article: Ephrem’s Madroshe and the Syrian Orthodox Beth Gazo - http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol2No1/HV2N1IbrahimKiraz.html

Syrian Jacobite Liturgy of St Dionysius - http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/St.Pachomius/dionysius/lit.html

 

Coptic Liturgy

Coptic Liturgy of St Basil - http://pharos.bu.edu/cn/prayers/StBasilLiturgy.html

The Agpeya [Book of Hours] - http://pharos.bu.edu/cn/prayers/Agpeya.html

Coptic Liturgical Resources - http://www.stathanasius.miss.on.coptorthodox.ca/Extras/Liturgy/liturgy.html

 

The Anaphora of Addai and Mari (Nestorian)

The Divine Liturgy of the Blessed Apostles - http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0719.htm

Another link - http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-07/anf07-65.htm

 

Music

Christian liturgical-musical studies and other resources

Prof. Peter Jeffrey – http://www.music.princeton.edu/chant_html/what.html

Loeb Music Library [includes the Laura Bolton Collection of Byzantine and Orthodox Musics; field recordings made during the 1950s and 60s] - http://hcl.harvard.edu/loebmusic/awm-about.html

 

Byzantine Chant

History of Byzantine chant by Dimitri Conomos –

http://www.goarch.org/access/Companion_to_Orthodox_Church/byzantine_music.html

Byzantine chant – www.goarch.org/access/byzantinemusic/

Byzantine chant – The Psaltic Notes – http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/frc/

Byzantine music links – http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/byzmusic.html

Byzantine Chant Studies Page (Daniel Johnson): includes much useful Byzantine material in English as PDF files – http://www.theologian.org/chant/

Byzantine chant Midis - http://www.theologian.org/choir.html

Byzantine chant audio files – http://www.cmkon.org/multimedia.htm

Byzantine chant audio files - http://www.ecclesia.gr/Multimedia/multimediaindex.html

Byzantine Tones – http://www.aaron.org/midwest/liturgics/music/byztones.htm

Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae – http://adam.igl.ku.dk/MMB

Arimathea Byzantine Chant page – http://www.church-music.co.uk

[These pages include many transcriptions and an entire printable manual on reading Byzantine chant.]

Neobyzantine chant fonts – various listed at http://www.igl.ku.dk/MMB/pegepind.htm

Neobyzantine chant fonts – http://www.byzanmusic.com

The EBYPES project [digitization of psaltic notation] – http://ebypes.hypermart.net/

St George Byzantine Music Publishing House [huge collection of Neobyzantine chant in Greek and English, in Western notation] – http://www.sgph.org

Pavlos Papadakis’s Byzantine Chant Page – http://www.bcs.ca/~pavlos

Pavlos Papadakis – http://www.byzantinechant.com

Byzantine chant manuscripts from the Mount Athos Exhibition at Thessaloniki, 1997– http://www.culture.gr/2/21/218/218eu/e218eu00.html

Catalogue of manuscripts in the library of Philotheou Monastery, Mount Athos –

http://abacus.bates.edu/~rallison/

18th Century Akathistos manuscript - http://www.culture.gr/2/21/218/218eu/e218eu9.html

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – http://byzan.uom.gr

Presvytera Katerina Sitaras Makiej’s Page - http://www.ancienthymns.com/

The Status of Byzantine Music through the 21st century - http://www.geocities.com/hellenicmind/music21.html

 

Russian chant traditions

Russian Orthodox Church Music - http://www.russia-in-us.com/Music/Church/

Russian Liturgy and Music site - http://orthodox.tstu.ru/darja/

Russian Orthodox Church Music [Alexander Ledkovsky: Scores in PDF format from the library of the Synod Cathedral Choir] – http://www.rocm.org

Russian Orthodox Church Music [Vast collection of PDF format scores and Midi files] –

http://www.art-gallery.ru/kliros/cp1251/notes/contents.htm

Russian Orthodox Church Music [Scores in PDF, Finale 98 and Encore 4.0 formats] –

http://www.orthodoxy.ru/orthonord/score/index.htm

Russian Orthodox Church Music [Scores in TIF format] – http://www.kis.ru/~mahnev/list.htm

Vladimir Mazevich's "Malen'ky Kliros" site: fascinating collection of downloadable scores in Noteworthy format

[NB: you will need Noteworthy Reader to see these if you do not have the full version; you will also need to download Izhitsa and Irmologion Cyrillic fonts – See below under Language.] - http://vovsite.narod.ru

Vladislav Dorosh's site [includes some downloadable scores in Finale format] - http://vvdorosh.narod.ru

Muzyka Diaspor [downloadable zipped TIF format scores] - http://www.music.diaspora.ru/notes/alphabet/k.shtml

Trio: Scores and liturgical texts - http://m82.ipmce.ru/trio/

Scores for the All-Night Vigil [pdf format] http://lavra.boom.ru/contents.html

Maksim Berezovsky Site [scores in pdf format] - http://berezmusic.narod.ru/notes.html

Music site with small sacred music section - http://classics.ptt.ru/

St Romanos the Melodist Society - http://www.saintromanos.org/

Old Slavonic manuscripts – Hilandar Research Library, Ohio –

http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/cmrs/rcmss/

Obshtezhitie [Ralph Cleminson] – http://www.ceu.hu/medstud/ralph/obsht.htm

History of Znamenny chant [Dawn Gauthier] – http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/4612/znamenny.htm

Valaam Monastery Official Site [includes Real Audio tracks from recordings by the Monastery Choir] – http://www.valaam.karelia.ru/en/sound/

Russian and Belorussian Christmas Carols [texts and some music] –

http://www.orthodoxy.ru/tropinka/zal/poezija/noch_tih.htm

Slavonic Liturgical Resources – http://www.troparion.narod.ru

Useful Russian links - http://www.orthodox.spb.ru/resources/r_view.htm

Russian liturgical music MP3s: an extensive collection – http://www.liturgy.ru/zvuk/

Mediaeval Russian sacred music audio clips - http://www.sol.ru/Culture/Djembe/russp_e.htm

MP3s of chant in Finnish - http://www.ort.fi/tieto/julk/vkuoro/vkuoro.htm

OCA Liturgical Music Page (Downloadable troparia and kontakia in English) - http://www.oca.org/pages/orth_chri/Publications/music/index.html

 

Other Slavic chant traditions

Carpatho-Russian chant sound files - http://www.acrod.org/music.html

Prostopinije Chant – http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/spirit/chant.htm

Bulgarian chant information – http://bulgarianspace.com/bmg/article/classic_church_eng.htm

Vox Bulgarica Music Publishing – http://www.voxbulgar.com

Bulgarian recordings - http://www.deepdownproductions.com/world/bulgaria/index.htm

Serbian music clips – http://www.serbianorthodoxchurch.net/music/

Serbian music clips – http://www.sv-luka.org/chants/kratimaterirem.ram

Arrangements of Obikhod, Carpatho-Rusyn, Galician and other chants by Sloan Rolando –

http://www.geocities.com/unmercenary/index.html

Liturgical MP3s from Slovakia – http://grkat.nfo.sk/hudba/index.html

Liturgical MP3s from Bulgaria and Armenia - http://www.iccs.bas.bg/music/gega/songs.html

Edition of Vedel’s Sacred works - http://ecn.ab.ca/ukraine/vedel.html

 

Romanian Chant

Liturgical MP3s, of Romanian chant and also chant from a number of other traditions – http://www.homepagez.com/ortodox/Muzica.htm 

Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Bookstore - http://www.roea.org/bookstor/ro00003.html

Romanian Colinde MP3s - http://www.crestinism-ortodox.ro/html/09/9d_colinde.html

 

Georgian Chant

Georgian sacred and ritual music: History and tradition – http://www.angelfire.com/ga/Georgian/music.html

Georgian music Midis and MP3s - http://sisauri.tripod.com/audio/real.htm

Informative page about Georgian music - http://www.argosoft.com/kavkasia/album2/intro.htm

 

Armenian Chant

Armenian music page - http://www.hyeetch.nareg.com.au/culture/music_p2.html

Komitas Vardapet - http://users.erols.com/guerig/v1/komitas.html

Recording of Komitas Vardapet - http://www.rootsworld.com/crossroads/4275.html

Another Komitas page - http://www.iatp.am/resource/artcult/hyemelodie/

Komitas page including his autobiography - http://15levels.com/24.April/html/komitas.html

Related site on Armenian music - http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~maral/music.html

 

Syrian Chant

Syrian Liturgies: Excellent page with explanatory information and audio clips –
http://www.musakad.se/mmm/cyberland/liturg-e.html
 

Coptic Chant

Coptic Music - http://www.stathanasius.miss.on.coptorthodox.ca/Extras/Coptic_Music/coptic_music.html

Audio Coptic Liturgies on CoptNet – http://pharos.bu.edu/cn/collections/AudioCopticLiturgies/

Recordings of Coptic celebrations - http://www.stathanasius.miss.on.coptorthodox.ca/Extras/Liturgy/Listen_to_Liturgy/listen_to_liturgy.html

Coptic Music Midi Archives - http://members.ozemail.com.au/~coptic/MIDI.html

 

St Raphael of Brooklyn

Service for the newly-canonized St Raphael of Brooklyn –

http://www.networks-now.net/litresswraoc/SVCRaphaelAkoulouthia.htm

Reader Andrew Moulton’s very complete site for St Raphael of Brooklyn - http://www.angelfire.com/pa3/straphaelcanonized/

 

Miscellaneous

"The Need for Good Choirs and Good Music" by Bishop Demetri – http://www.antiochian.org/Music/Good_Choirs.html

Eastern Orthodox Liturgics: Chant development – http://www.liturgica.com/html/litEOLitMusDev.jsp

Otherwordly Music [audio clips] - http://www.stinnocent.com/seraphim/music.htm

"Texts for the Study of Music and Song in the History of Orthodox Liturgical Worship" by David Drillock - http://www.jacwell.org/Liturgical%20Music/texts_for_the_study_of_music_and.htm

The PSALM site - http://www.orthodoxpsalm.org/

The Tuning Fork: A Newsletter for the Orthodox Church Sinher - http://www.jacwell.org/the_tuning_fork/issue_1.htm

"Third Century: Theology and Liturgy Emerge" by Fr Thomas Hopko - http://www.christianity.com/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID18828%7CCHID119594%7CCIID108227,00.html

"Words and Music in Orthodox Worship" - http://www.liturgica.com/html/litEOLitMusDev3.jsp

 

Choirs

The Greek Byzantine Choir - http://www.hol.gr/business/lavris/choir.htm

Angelite – Bulgarian Voices - http://www.jaro.de/Artists/Bulgeng1.html

Cappella Romana - http://www.cappellaromana.org/frames1.htm

Choir of the Novokuznetsk Theololgical School - http://www.nvkz.kuzbass.net/p-vesti/hor/sps.htm

The Kyiv Chamber Choir - http://www.cck.kiev.ua/en/cd.htm

Middlebury Russian Choir - http://community.middlebury.edu/~moss/MRC.html

Rossica Choir - http://rossica.8m.com/

Slavyanka - http://www.friends-partners.org/slavyanka/

Ensemble Georgika - http://www.deepdownproductions.com/artists/georgika.htm
Georgian Choir of Tbilisi - http://www.prus.pl/ortho/main.html
The Rustavi Choir - http://imusic.artistdirect.com/showcase/contemporary/rustavichoir.html

 

Bells

Blagovest – www.russianbells.com

Michele E. Prokopchak: The Bells of Russia - www.cs.yale.edu/~douglas-craig/bells/Basic/zvons.html

Russian bells - www.kolokola.ru/

The bells and chimes of Russia - http://users.podolsk.ru/akir/bells.htm

Links relating to bells - www.carillon-museum.nl/links.htm

The Bell Museum http://eng.novgorod-museum.ru/museums/fil/valdai.shtml

The Lowell House bells [17 Russian bells] http://lowell.student.harvard.edu/Bells/

Article on Russian bells - www.nytimes.com/learning/students/pop/012600russia-bells.html

Kolokola - http://www.struggler.org/kolokola.html

Article about the Peter & Paul Fortress in St Petersburg - http://www2.russiajournal.com/ls/article.shtml?ad=2315

Index relating to carillons and other tower bells, including Zvons - http://www.gcna.org/data/Data_Top.html

 

Language

Greek

Torrey Philemon’s Resources for learning Greek (Modern, Ancient, Biblical) on the Web: a huge list of links - http://www.geocities.com/tmartiac//thalassa/grlang.htm

Computing in Greek on Microsoft Windows systems - http://www.hri.org/fonts/w95/

How to View Greek on Web Sites - http://php.iupui.edu/~cplaneau/greek1.html

Greek Fonts and Software resources -
http://www.gogreece.com/tools.htm
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/greek.html
http://info.ox.ac.uk/~classics/software/software.html

[Many others are listed at http://www.geocities.com/tmartiac//thalassa/grlang.htm]

English- Modern Greek Lexicon - http://www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon

Online Greek and Latin Dictionaries - http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction2.html#classic

Ancient vs. Modern Greek - http://www.translexis.demon.co.uk/booklet/html/ancientmod.html

Greek Language and Linguistics Gateway - http://home.earthlink.net/~mwpalmer/

Ancient Greek Lessons - http://www.furman.edu/~cblack01/greek_lessons/greekintro.html#Top
User-Friendly Guide for Reading Ancient Greek -
http://kenwoodward.ne.mediaone.net/greek/template/greek1.htm

Greek and Latin Language Links - http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/OM/grk-lat.html

Greek and Latin Grammar - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/grams.ann.html

Greek Pronunication: Audio Examples - http://diogenes.baylor.edu/WWWproviders/thorburn/index.htm

Hellenic Page Greek Language Links - http://www.webcom.com/gjp/hlang.html

Reading Ancient Greek - http://kenwoodward.ne.mediaone.net/greek/template/xample13.htm

Greek Manuscripts Gateway - http://home.earthlink.net/~mwpalmer/greek.manuscripts.gateway/manuscripts.html

Greek Linguistics FAQ - http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/faq/greece/linguistics_faq.html

Library of Congress Greek and Classical Resources - http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/classics/claslink.html#special

New Testament Greek Lessons - http://sunsite.unc.edu/koine/greek/lessons/

Hellenistic Greek Pages - http://home.earthlink.net/~mwpalmer/tauber.html

Gramcord Institute: Biblical Greek Resources - http://www.gramcord.org/?233,48

Learning New Testament Greek: Lessons - http://www.thechristian.org/LrnGreek/fstart.htm

Discussion Lists for Ancient Greek and the Greek Bible - http://home.earthlink.net/~mwpalmer/lists/index.html

Biblical Greek Mailing List Archives - http://sunsite.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/

Lexical Aids for Ancient Greek - http://home.earthlink.net/~mwpalmer/lexical.aids/

Greek Lexicon at Perseus - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform

Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek – http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/lexindex

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae - http://www.tlg.uci.edu/

Greek and Linguistics Software - http://home.earthlink.net/~mwpalmer/software.and.databases/index.html

Display Greek java applet - http://www.java.utoronto.ca/~brucerob/DisplayGreek/

Socratype Greek Text in Windows - http://www.i3w.com/zeus/sokratype/

 

Church Slavonic

Church Slavonic resources – http://www.orthodoxepubsoc.org/slavonichelp.htm

Church Slavonic Grammar in English – ftp://www.orthodoxepubsoc.org/pub/slavonicgrammar.zip

Church Slavonic resources, including downloadable fonts – http://chslav.hypermart.net/

Church Slavonic Pronunciation - http://justin.zamora.com/slavonic/alphabet/pronunciation.html

"Help Me Learn Church Slavonic" (Justin Zamora) - http://justin.zamora.com/slavonic/

Nikolai and Elena Andrushchenko’s Church Slavonic Page – http://www.arh.ru/~naa/

Church Slavonic fonts and alphabet – http://grkat.nfo.sk/

60 Cyrillic and Latinica fonts and Alphabet converter - http://www.serbianorthodoxchurch.net/misc/

The Glagolitic Script and the Slavs - http://www.thezaurus.com/sloveniana/glagolitic_Script.htm

 

Georgian 

Georgian fonts for PC (TTF) - http://www.sanet.ge/temuri/geottf/acad.html

Georgian fonts for Macintosh - http://babel.uoregon.edu/Yamada/fonts/georgian.html

 

Armenian

Armenian fonts http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/armenian.html

More Armenian fonts - http://www.editum.com.ar/mashtots/

 

Coptic

Coptic language fonts - http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/coptic.html

LaTeX fonts for ancient Egyptian languages including Coptic - http://www.iut.univ-paris8.fr/~rosmord/archives/

 

Miscellaneous

Armazi – Electronic Documentation of Caucasian Languages and Cultures –

http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/armazi/sinai/alban2.htm

 

Calendar

Calendrical Links - http://www.ortelius.de/kalender/links_en.html

Detailed calendar discussion - http://serendipity.magnet.ch/hermetic/cal_stud/cal_art.htm#Accuracy

Saint of the Day Calendar - http://www.goarch.org/access/calendar/

Calendar of Eastern Saints, with troparia and kontakia - http://users.netmatters.co.uk/davidbryant/C/TropKon/TP.htm

Romanian Orthodox Calendar - http://members.tripod.com/Paginiortodoxe/calendar.html

Troparia and Kontakia of the Day (Old Calendar) - http://pomog.org/hymns.shtml

 

Discussion Groups

Music: Orthodox Psalm - http://yahoogroups.com/group/orthodoxpsalm

Liturgy: Typikon - http://yahoogroups.com/group/typikon

Publishing Orthodox Church Music: Ekdosis - http://yahoogroups.com/group/ekdosis

Prostopinije chant discussion – http://yahoogroups.com/group/prostopinije

Russian Church Singing (in Russian) - http://www.webboard.ru/wb.php?board=2132

Spanish language Orthodox forum: Hisporto – http://yahoogroups.com/group/hisporto

Ancient Greek and the Greek Bible - http://home.earthlink.net/~mwpalmer/lists/index.html

Biblical Greek Mailing List Archives - http://sunsite.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/

 

 

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