St. George Workshop 2023: Advanced
Welcome to the Advanced Class for the 2nd Annual St. George Byzantine Music Workshop. Our focus will be on Plagal First Mode Papadic.
Read MoreOctoëchos 206: Plagal 2nd Mode – 4th Term 2023
This course serves as a systematic primer in the theoretical and practical aspects of Plagal 2nd Mode. This mode will be studied within the context of the Anastasimatarion; that is, the Resurrectional hymns of Saturday night Vespers and Sunday morning Orthros. Upon completing this course, a student will be proficient in the heirmologic and sticheraric…
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St Nicholas Byzantine Choir
Festal Menaion 301: Introduction to Interpretation – Term 3 2023
This class will provide introductory principles to interpretation through the lens of a variety of of repertoire found throughout the great feasts of Christ and the Theotokos. It will focus on the different ornaments, how to incorporate ornaments heard in recordings found publicly by master chanters, and how to build up some basic principles that…
Read MoreByzB Youth 2 – Winter 2024
Students study the foundational symbols needed to read syllabic hymns in Byzantine notation and continue their study of modal theory. Students will study intervallic symbols, qualitative symbols, rhythmic symbols, and symbols that indicate the mode and scale. Students study Heirmologic hymns on parallagi and melos in the Diatonic Modes: 1st, Plagal 1st, 4th, and Plagal…
Read MoreOn Your Marks: Counting Time in Byzantine Chant – Webinar with Dr. Nicholas Roumas
Friday, June 16, 2023, 8-9:30 pm Eastern Time In this online webinar, Dr. Nicholas Roumas will discuss one of the most neglected aspects of Byzantine Chant today: counting time (chronos counting). Time in Byzantine Chant is conceived in a radically different way from in Western music. Dr. Roumas will introduce and teach, with examples, concepts…
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Automela Melodies for Kathismata – St John the Forerunner (Cedar Park, TX)
This course is a private group class offered by Gabriel Cremeens to St John the Forerunner Antiochian Orthodox Church in Cedar Park, Texas. The class will meet weekly on Fridays from 2:30 to 3:00 pm Central Time. We will study the following melodies in this course: While Gabriel was saying, 1st Mode Thy confession, 3rd…
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