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/~ecolewebEarly 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.htmJustin Martyrs 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.htmCal-Hellas Catalogue -
http://www.calhellas.com/Conciliar Press -
http://www.christianity.com/conciliarpressDumbarton Oaks Publications List -
http://www.doaks.org/Publications.htmlEastern Christian Supply Internet Store
http://www.easternchristian.com/Editions du Cerf -
http://www.editionsducerf.fr/home.aspHoloviaks Church Supplies
http://www.holoviak.comHoly Land Mail [Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox recordings from the Holy Land] -
http://www.holylandmall.net/easmusfromho.htmlHoly Cross Bookstore -
http://www.goarch.org/access/hcbks/Icon and Book Service
http://www.iconbook.org/index.htmlIstok Enterprises -
http://www.istok.net/Light & Life
http://www.light-n-life.com/Liturgix -
http://www.liturgix.com/Monastery Icons -
http://www.monasteryicons.comMusica Russica [recordings and sheet music]
http://www.musicarussica.comNarek [Armenian books and recordings] -
http://www.narek.com/Nativity of the Theotokos Monastery Publications -
http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/resource/theotokos_cat.htmlOklahoma Orthodox Christians for Life -
http://www.orthodox.org/oocl/Orthodox Byzantine Icons
http://www.skete.com/Pascha Books -
http://www.paschabooks.com/mall/St Tikhons Seminary Press -
http://www.stots.eduSt Vladimirs Orthodox Theological Seminary
http://www.svots.eduTheologic Systems software
http://www.theologic.com/Theophano Verlag, Münster -
http://www.theophano.de/index.htmlUkrainian Bookstore -
http://www.ukrainianbookstore.comUMKA Ukrainian music -
http://www.umka.com.ua/eng/fresky02.shtmlBible 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.htmlA Brief Explanation of the Divine Liturgy with photographs -
http://www.zeta.org.au/~aofosm/pentec.htmFr George Mastrantonis: Introduction to the Divine Liturgy -
http://www.goarch.org/access/orthodoxfaith/liturgy.htmlRonald Clausen: The Eucharist -
http://members.aol.com/RClau22589/eucharist.htmlIrenaeus on the Eucharist -
http://www.stjohndc.org/Mysteries/9904r.htmThe 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.htmThe Holy Eucharist (Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia) -
http://cygnus.uwa.edu.au/~jgrapsas/pages/Eucharist.htmThe Holy Eucharist: article by Fr Thomas Fitzgerald
http://www.goarch.org/access/orthodoxfaith/eucharist.htmlThe 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.comLiturgical resources and music
http://www.antiochan.org/Midwest/Liturgics/index.htmLiturgical translations in Chinese -
http://pages.prodigy.net/frjohnwhiteford/chinese.htmLiturgical translations in Danish (Divine Liturgy) -
http://www.ortodoks.dk/hl_johannes_chrysostomos.htmLiturgical translations in English
http://www.bright.net/~palamas/CyberPsaltiri/Liturgical translations in English
http://www.anastasis.org.ukLiturgical translations in English, French and Arabic -
http://www.balamandmonastery.org.lb/Litrugics.htmLiturgical translations in French: links -
http://pages.prodigy.net/frjohnwhiteford/french.htmLiturgical translations in Italian. Portuguese and Spanish
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ivanmoody/liturgicaltexts.htmLiturgical translations in Italian -
http://digilander.iol.it/ortodossia/Liturgia.htmLiturgical translations in Japanese: links -
http://pages.prodigy.net/frjohnwhiteford/japanese.htmLiturgical translations in (Brazilian) Portuguese -
http://www.fatheralexander.org/page26.htmLiturgical translations in Romanian -
http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/romanian/orologion/ceaslov.htmLiturgical translations in Spanish -
http://www.fatheralexander.org/page30.htmLiturgical translations in Swedish -
http://hem.passagen.se/ortodoxi/litur/index.htmLiturgical texts: Fr Leo Schefes e-text versions of Greek liturgical texts. Includes the Menaion, Horologion, Oktoechos, Triodion and Pentecostarion
http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/lessthan/1725/texts/index.htmLiturgical texts in Slavonic links -
http://pages.prodigy.net/frjohnwhiteford/slavonic.htmLiturgical texts and translations in various languages (and much else)
http://www.myriobiblos.grLiturgical material (Melkite) -
http://www.typicon.com/Liturgical and spiritual material: Monachos.net -
http://www.monachos.net/index.shtmlThe Akathistos Hymn in Greek -
http://www.epopteia.net/notebook/akathisthymn.htmThe Akathistos Hymn in English -
http://www.cygnus.uwa.edu.au/~jgrapsas/pages/Akathist.htmThe Akathistos Hymn in English: another version -
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/akathis.htmlThe Akathistos Hymn: another link:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/8848/akathistos.htmThe Akathistos Hymn in Italian (incomplete) -
http://digilander.iol.it/ortodossia/Akathistos.htmThe Akathistos Hymn in Polish -
http://www.archidiecezja.lodz.pl/czytelni/akatyst.htmlThe Akathistos Hymn in Portuguese
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ivanmoody/liturgicaltexts.port.akathistos.htmThe Akathistos Hymn in Spanish (metrical version) -
http://members.es.tripod.de/Piedrablanca/id74.htmThe Akathistos Hymn in Swedish -
http://hem.passagen.se/ortodoxi/litur/Akathistos.htmThe Akathist of Thanksgiving (Fr Gregory Petrov) -
http://www.nireland.com/orthodox/akathist.htmAnastásima in Greek -
http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/greek/anastasima.htmlCompline and the Midnight Office -
http://www.sspeterpaul.org/Compline.htmGreat Compline -
http://pages.prodigy.net/frjohnwhiteford/great_compline.htmLittle Compline -
http://pages.prodigy.net/frjohnwhiteford/smallcompline.htmThe Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom in Greek -
http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/greek/chrysostom_liturgy.htmThe Divine Liturgies of St John Chrysostom and St Basil in English -
http://www.sourozh.org/liturgy/liturgy.htmThe Divine Liturgy of St James -
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0717.htmThe Divine Liturgy of St James (Fr Ephrem Lashs translation) -
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ephrem/lit-james.htmAnother link -
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-07/anf07-63.htmThe Divine Liturgy of St Mark
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0718.htmAnother link -
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-07/anf07-64.htmLiturgy 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?airmailLittle Compline with the Canon of Preparation for Holy Communion -
http://www.interlog.com/~abouna/liturgics/liturgics.htmLiturgical petitions for those persecuted in Serbia -
http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/liturgy/serbian.htmlLiturgical texts in Greek -
http://users.otenet.gr/~abpriest/current.htmThe Sacrament of Marriage -
http://a_g_green_jr.tripod.com/betrothal-crowning.htmlMenologion download for PC -
http://www.the-internet-eye.com/stjohn/menolo~1.htmOrder of the Blessing of New Ecclesiastical Vestments
http://www.holy-trinity.org/liturgics/vestments.htmlOrder for the Burial of the Dead (Hapgood translation) -
http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/death/funeral.htmOctoechos (Fr Ephrem Lash) -
http://www.anastasis.org.uk/oktoich.htmOctoechos 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.htmPanikhida (Slavonic and English) -
http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/pannihida_e.htmThe Euchologion (Fr Ephrem Lash) -
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ephrem/eucholog.htmPrayer Book in English -
http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/english/prayerbook/main.htmPriests Service Book [OCA]
http://www.orthodoxnet.com/orthodoxy/Trebnik in Slavonic scan of 1882 Moscow edition [JPG format] -
http://www.librarium.orthodoxyru/trebnikThe Synaxarion in Greek -
http://www.i-m-attikis.gr/html/gr/synaxaristis/syngr.htmLiturgics
http://www.networks-now.net/litresswraoc/The Liturgical Cycles and their Significance in Orthodox Chanting and Worship
http://www.stjohnorinda.org/chant.htmThe Synodikon of Orthodoxy -
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ephrem/synodikon.htmCommentary on the Synodikon of Orthodoxy by Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos -
http://www.pelagia.org/htm/b12.en.the_mind_of_the_orthodox_church.09Selection from the Lenten Triodion
http://stmichael.org/Lent/Triodion.htmlSelections from the Lenten Triodion (Fr Ephrem Lash) -
http://www.anastasis.org.uk/triodion.htmThe complete Lenten Triodion -
http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/prayers/triodion/triodion.htmlCompositions by the Nun Kassia
http://ash.swarthmore.edu/mcnamee/Kassiaindex.htmlSome texts from the Pentecostarion -
http://www.zeta.org.au/~aofosm/pentec.htmTexts from the Pentecostation (Fr Ephrem Lash) -
http://www.anastasis.org.uk/pentecos.htmTexts for Pentecost -
http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/pente.htm#N6Menaion for 7th May St Nilus, Wonderworker of Sora
http://www.saintnilus.org/may7.htmlHeirmoi of the Nativity Canon
http://www.stjohndc.org/Nativity/Menaion.htmhttp://stjohndc.org/Nativity.Menaion.htm
Feastdays and Services to the Theotokos [by Archbishop Demetri] -
http://www.antiochian.org/midwest/Articles/FeastsMary.htmCanon in Honour of the Saints of Britain -
http://www.nireland.com/orthodox/canon.htmPrayer Book -
http://www.greece.org/gopatalex/prayers.htmlPrayer Book -
http://cygnus.uwa.edu.au/~jgrapsas/pages/Prayers.htmPrayers for Confession -
http://dfw.orthodox.net/saint_nicholas/confess/index.htmPrayers 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.htmThanksgiving after Communion -
http://www.interlog.com/~abouna/liturgics/liturgics.htmReader Service Horologion -
http://pages.prodigy.net/frjohnwhiteford/horologion.htmSerbian Orthodox Slava service -
http://pages.prodigy.net/frjohnwhiteford/patron.htmPrayer, 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.htmlHoly Trinity Cathedral Liturgics Page -
http://www.holy-trinity.org/liturgics/Holy Virgin Mary Cathedral Liturgics Page -
http://home.earthlink.net/~orlov/litur.htmlMonthly Typikon (New Calendar) -
http://www.networks-now.net/litresswraoc/Monthly%20Typicon.htmTypikon notes -
http://www.networks-now.net/litresswraoc/Typicon%20Notes.htmTroparia and Kontakia of the Day (Old Calendar) -
http://pomog.org/hymns.shtmlSongs of the Fathers: Hymnology -
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ephrem/songsof.htmThe Church Year: an explanation -
http://cygnus.uwa.edu.au/~jgrapsas/pages/indiction.htmSpiritual 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.htmProsphora -
http://www.prosphora.org/What is Liturgy? An essay by Deacon John-Mark Titterington -
http://www.orthodox.clara.net/worship.htm#LITURGICAL%20PRAYERLiturgica.com: "Liturgics and liturgical music in the Judeo-Christian milieu"
http://www.liturgica.comLiturgical 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.htmlOld Georgian Liturgical Manuscripts Project -
http://siufsispc10.unifr.ch/futura_fr/c_project_general.htm?project=1491&group=375Early 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.htmlLiturgical Vestments -
http://www.crosslink.net/~hrycak/vestment.htmlLiturgical Vestments -
http://www.ausorthodox.com/vestments/vestments.htmlLiturgical Vestments -
http://theocacna.freeyellow.com/vestment.htmLiturgical Vestments -
http://www.oca.org/pages/orth_chri/Orthodox-Faith/Worship/Vestments.htmlThe Garments of Salvation -
http://www.kwvestments.com/garments.htmVestments 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.htmWestern Rite Liturgy Page -
http://www.neosoft.com/~gwj/liturgy.htmWestern Rite links -
http://www.odox.net/Liturgy-Links.htmCeltic rite (Stow Missal) -
http://www.celticchristianity.org/stowe.html
Armenian Liturgy
Divine Liturgy of the Armenian Church -
http://www.cilicia.com/armo_badarak00.htmlAnalysis of the Armenian Liturgy (very complete) -
http://www.geocities.com/dershnork/divine_lit.htmlCommentary on the Armenian Liturgy -
http://www.armenianheritage.com/redivine.htmSyriac Liturgy
Syriac Orthodox Liturgies -
http://sor.cua.edu/BHCybLib.htmlAnaphoras: The Book of the Divine Liturgies of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch -
http://sor.cua.edu/Liturgy/Anaphora/index.htmlArticle: Ephrems Madroshe and the Syrian Orthodox Beth Gazo -
http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol2No1/HV2N1IbrahimKiraz.htmlSyrian 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.htmlThe Agpeya [Book of Hours] -
http://pharos.bu.edu/cn/prayers/Agpeya.htmlCoptic 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.htmAnother 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.htmlLoeb 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.htmlByzantine 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.htmlByzantine chant audio files
http://www.cmkon.org/multimedia.htmByzantine chant audio files -
http://www.ecclesia.gr/Multimedia/multimediaindex.htmlByzantine Tones
http://www.aaron.org/midwest/liturgics/music/byztones.htmMonumenta Musicae Byzantinae
http://adam.igl.ku.dk/MMBArimathea 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.htmNeobyzantine chant fonts
http://www.byzanmusic.comThe 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.orgPavlos Papadakiss Byzantine Chant Page
http://www.bcs.ca/~pavlosPavlos Papadakis
http://www.byzantinechant.comByzantine chant manuscripts from the Mount Athos Exhibition at Thessaloniki, 1997
http://www.culture.gr/2/21/218/218eu/e218eu00.htmlCatalogue 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.htmlAristotle University of Thessaloniki
http://byzan.uom.grPresvytera Katerina Sitaras Makiejs 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.orgRussian 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.htmVladimir 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.ruVladislav Dorosh's site [includes some downloadable scores in Finale format] -
http://vvdorosh.narod.ruMuzyka Diaspor [downloadable zipped TIF format scores] -
http://www.music.diaspora.ru/notes/alphabet/k.shtmlTrio: Scores and liturgical texts -
http://m82.ipmce.ru/trio/Scores for the All-Night Vigil [pdf format]
http://lavra.boom.ru/contents.htmlMaksim Berezovsky Site [scores in pdf format] -
http://berezmusic.narod.ru/notes.htmlMusic 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.htmHistory of Znamenny chant [Dawn Gauthier]
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/4612/znamenny.htmValaam 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.ruUseful Russian links -
http://www.orthodox.spb.ru/resources/r_view.htmRussian 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.htmMP3s of chant in Finnish -
http://www.ort.fi/tieto/julk/vkuoro/vkuoro.htmOCA 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.htmlProstopinije Chant
http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/spirit/chant.htmBulgarian chant information
http://bulgarianspace.com/bmg/article/classic_church_eng.htmVox Bulgarica Music Publishing
http://www.voxbulgar.comBulgarian recordings -
http://www.deepdownproductions.com/world/bulgaria/index.htmSerbian music clips
http://www.serbianorthodoxchurch.net/music/Serbian music clips
http://www.sv-luka.org/chants/kratimaterirem.ramArrangements 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.htmlLiturgical MP3s from Bulgaria and Armenia -
http://www.iccs.bas.bg/music/gega/songs.htmlEdition of Vedels 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.htmRomanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Bookstore -
http://www.roea.org/bookstor/ro00003.htmlRomanian 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.htmlGeorgian music Midis and MP3s -
http://sisauri.tripod.com/audio/real.htmInformative page about Georgian music -
http://www.argosoft.com/kavkasia/album2/intro.htmArmenian Chant
Armenian music page -
http://www.hyeetch.nareg.com.au/culture/music_p2.htmlKomitas Vardapet -
http://users.erols.com/guerig/v1/komitas.htmlRecording of Komitas Vardapet -
http://www.rootsworld.com/crossroads/4275.htmlAnother Komitas page -
http://www.iatp.am/resource/artcult/hyemelodie/Komitas page including his autobiography -
http://15levels.com/24.April/html/komitas.htmlRelated site on Armenian music -
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~maral/music.html
Syrian Chant
Coptic Chant
Coptic Music -
http://www.stathanasius.miss.on.coptorthodox.ca/Extras/Coptic_Music/coptic_music.htmlAudio 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.htmlCoptic Music Midi Archives -
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~coptic/MIDI.htmlSt Raphael of Brooklyn
Service for the newly-canonized St Raphael of Brooklyn
http://www.networks-now.net/litresswraoc/SVCRaphaelAkoulouthia.htm
Reader Andrew Moultons 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.htmlEastern Orthodox Liturgics: Chant development
http://www.liturgica.com/html/litEOLitMusDev.jspOtherwordly 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.htmThe 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.htmAngelite Bulgarian Voices -
http://www.jaro.de/Artists/Bulgeng1.htmlCappella Romana -
http://www.cappellaromana.org/frames1.htmChoir of the Novokuznetsk Theololgical School -
http://www.nvkz.kuzbass.net/p-vesti/hor/sps.htmThe Kyiv Chamber Choir -
http://www.cck.kiev.ua/en/cd.htmMiddlebury Russian Choir -
http://community.middlebury.edu/~moss/MRC.htmlRossica Choir -
http://rossica.8m.com/Slavyanka -
http://www.friends-partners.org/slavyanka/
Bells
Blagovest
www.russianbells.comMichele E. Prokopchak: The Bells of Russia -
www.cs.yale.edu/~douglas-craig/bells/Basic/zvons.htmlRussian bells -
www.kolokola.ru/The bells and chimes of Russia -
http://users.podolsk.ru/akir/bells.htmLinks relating to bells -
www.carillon-museum.nl/links.htmThe Bell Museum
http://eng.novgorod-museum.ru/museums/fil/valdai.shtmlThe Lowell House bells [17 Russian bells]
http://lowell.student.harvard.edu/Bells/Article on Russian bells -
www.nytimes.com/learning/students/pop/012600russia-bells.htmlKolokola -
http://www.struggler.org/kolokola.htmlArticle about the Peter & Paul Fortress in St Petersburg -
http://www2.russiajournal.com/ls/article.shtml?ad=2315Index relating to carillons and other tower bells, including Zvons -
http://www.gcna.org/data/Data_Top.html
Greek
Torrey Philemons Resources for learning Greek (Modern, Ancient, Biblical) on the Web: a huge list of links -
http://www.geocities.com/tmartiac//thalassa/grlang.htmComputing 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.htmlGreek Fonts and Software resources -
[Many others are listed at
http://www.geocities.com/tmartiac//thalassa/grlang.htm]English- Modern Greek Lexicon -
http://www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexiconOnline Greek and Latin Dictionaries -
http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction2.html#classicAncient vs. Modern Greek -
http://www.translexis.demon.co.uk/booklet/html/ancientmod.htmlGreek Language and Linguistics Gateway -
http://home.earthlink.net/~mwpalmer/Ancient Greek Lessons -
http://www.furman.edu/~cblack01/greek_lessons/greekintro.html#TopGreek and Latin Language Links -
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/OM/grk-lat.htmlGreek and Latin Grammar -
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/grams.ann.htmlGreek Pronunication: Audio Examples -
http://diogenes.baylor.edu/WWWproviders/thorburn/index.htmHellenic Page Greek Language Links -
http://www.webcom.com/gjp/hlang.htmlReading Ancient Greek -
http://kenwoodward.ne.mediaone.net/greek/template/xample13.htmGreek Manuscripts Gateway -
http://home.earthlink.net/~mwpalmer/greek.manuscripts.gateway/manuscripts.htmlGreek Linguistics FAQ -
http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/faq/greece/linguistics_faq.htmlLibrary of Congress Greek and Classical Resources -
http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/classics/claslink.html#specialNew Testament Greek Lessons -
http://sunsite.unc.edu/koine/greek/lessons/Hellenistic Greek Pages -
http://home.earthlink.net/~mwpalmer/tauber.htmlGramcord Institute: Biblical Greek Resources -
http://www.gramcord.org/?233,48Learning New Testament Greek: Lessons -
http://www.thechristian.org/LrnGreek/fstart.htmDiscussion Lists for Ancient Greek and the Greek Bible -
http://home.earthlink.net/~mwpalmer/lists/index.htmlBiblical 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/resolveformLiddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/lexindexThesaurus Linguae Graecae -
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/Greek and Linguistics Software -
http://home.earthlink.net/~mwpalmer/software.and.databases/index.htmlDisplay 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.htmChurch Slavonic Grammar in English
ftp://www.orthodoxepubsoc.org/pub/slavonicgrammar.zipChurch 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 Andrushchenkos 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.htmlGeorgian fonts for Macintosh -
http://babel.uoregon.edu/Yamada/fonts/georgian.html
Armenian
Armenian fonts
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/armenian.htmlMore Armenian fonts -
http://www.editum.com.ar/mashtots/
Coptic
Coptic language fonts -
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/coptic.htmlLaTeX 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
Calendrical Links -
http://www.ortelius.de/kalender/links_en.htmlDetailed calendar discussion -
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/hermetic/cal_stud/cal_art.htm#AccuracySaint 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.htmRomanian Orthodox Calendar -
http://members.tripod.com/Paginiortodoxe/calendar.htmlTroparia and Kontakia of the Day (Old Calendar) -
http://pomog.org/hymns.shtml
Discussion Groups
Music: Orthodox Psalm -
http://yahoogroups.com/group/orthodoxpsalmLiturgy: Typikon -
http://yahoogroups.com/group/typikonPublishing Orthodox Church Music: Ekdosis -
http://yahoogroups.com/group/ekdosisProstopinije chant discussion
http://yahoogroups.com/group/prostopinijeRussian Church Singing (in Russian) -
http://www.webboard.ru/wb.php?board=2132Spanish language Orthodox forum: Hisporto
http://yahoogroups.com/group/hisportoAncient Greek and the Greek Bible -
http://home.earthlink.net/~mwpalmer/lists/index.htmlBiblical Greek Mailing List Archives -
http://sunsite.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/
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