Level 5 Curriculum

Theory

• Writing in Byzantine Music Notation (rules of Orthography)

• Ison

• Byzantine choir / chorus

• History of Byzantine Music

•  The sacred offices and their elements in detail.

  • Saturday Vespers: Psalm 136, Kathismata, Stichelogy, Prokeimenons, Aposticha, Dismissal Hymns

  • Midnight office: Trinitarian Canon and hymns)

  • Matins: Six-Psalms, Dismissal hymns, Kathismata, Anavathmoi, Prokeimenon, Order of the Matin Gospel, Canons, Odes/Katavasiae, Ode IX and Magnificat/Timiotera, Exaposteilarions, Laudes, Stichera, Doxology.

  • Divine Liturgy

Sources

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

•  Mousike Kypseli, Vol I, Ι, ΙΙΙ (Vespers, Matins, Divine Liturgy), G. Progakis)

• Megali Evdomada, K. Priggos

• Theoritiko Byzantinis Ecclesiastikis  Mousikis, Ioannis Margaziotis  

Repertoire

• Ancient Sticheraric, Ιδού ο Νυμφίος

• Selection of Ancient Sticheraric compositions: Πάσα πνοή, Αινείτε Iakovos Protopsaltis

• Τον Δεσπότην και  Αρχιερέα as per arrangement by Gregory Protopsaltes

• Άνωθεν οι Προγήται by Ioannis Koukouzelis as per arrangement by Gregory Protopsaltes

• Anaphora hymns of the Liturgy of Saint Basil

• Selection from the 8-tone Θεοτόκε Παρθένε, Petros Mpereketes