Level 2 Curriculum

Theory

• The Diatonic scale

  • Elements of the diatonic scale

• The three genii (families of scales) and their witness signs.

  • Elements of tones (genus, starting, middle and ending cadences)

  • The tetrachords of the diatonic genus

• Corruption signs (diatonic and chromatic genii)

• Melodic types (Heirmologic, Sticheraric, Papadic, Kalophonic)

• Dismissal hymns of Tones I, IV, V, and VI

• Sacred Offices and their individual elements

Sources

• Melodic Exercises, Ioannis Margaziotis

• Anastasimatarion (Petros Lambadarios, Ioannis Protopsaltis, K. Priggos, etc.)

• Workbook of Greek Hymns, School of Byzantine Music of Montreal

Repertoire

The following in all 8 tones: 

• Dismissal Hymns

• The two Kathismata

• Stages/Anavathmoi

• Magnificat/Most honourable

• Laudes

• The four stichera of the Laudes

• Eothinae

• Brief doxologies

• Brief Katavasiae (Festal Odes)