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At St. Sophia Cathedral in Wash DC it is all traditional byzantine chant.
I was searching the web for resources on byzantine chant and came across one old site that has since been hijacked. I guess they must have forgotten to renew their domain registration and a rather unsavory bunch snatched it when it went up for grabs.
where cand i find a parish in america that sounds like that!
It is used in all GOA parishes, even if it is neutered by an organ . . . .anastasios
A little off topic, but could anyone direct me to a site that has the entire liturgy(or most of it) done in Church Slavonic...hopefully in a "standard" sort of way that a parish would use on a regular basis. Nothing too flashy...
This might be a good start:http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/liturgy_e.htmIf you care to PM me with your email address, I will locate my copies of English, Slavonic, and Eng/Slavonic versions which I formatted from another source to load to my PocketPC (Word. doc files) and send them to you.Demetri
Kelfar,I would encourage you all to learn the notation; it really is not hard (I learned it fairly well in about 3 months but have since forgotten a lot of it due to inactivity).I can recommend books for this purpose if you would like.You simply can't render Byzantine Chant in Western notation properly--it can't be done. So the solution is what Fr Seraphim Dedes did, which is publish books in English with Byzantine notation and issue separate books with Western noatation and cd's as a crutch. But eventually if Byzantine Chant will survive in English in America the notation must be learned.anastasios
Guys,Check out what the 'Lord Have Mercy' by my friend Daniel Alva that I got Dismas to play on his: http://orthotracts.org/musicpage.htmlIt rocks! It's in the CD section too (not just at the top on the "new" section), but it's not on the CD.