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Eastern Orthodox Liturgics at Liturgica.com [Add to My Praize]
http://www.liturgica.com/html/litEOLit.jsp?hostname=liturgica
Presents a description of liturgical worship in the Orthodox Church, with links to CDs and books for purchase.
EBYPES byzantine chant notation typography [Add to My Praize]
The EBYPES Project is devoted to digitizing psaltic notation for the purpose of making the publication of books of chant easier.
Eight Tones And Special Melodies According to the Russian Usage [Add to My Praize]
http://www.orthodox.net/nvtc/o-p/index.html#8ton
History and simple explanation of chant and the eight tones. Also how to purchase a tape explaining and demonstrating the tones. From the New Valaam Trading Company.
Georgian Orthodox and Folk Songs [Add to My Praize]
http://sisauri.tripod.com/audio/real.htm
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Georgian Orthodox Church Music Midi and Real Audio files
Hymns from the Liturgical Tradition [Add to My Praize]
http://www.goarch.org/access/byzantinemusic/
Lots of QuickTime and RealAudio files.
Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae, Copenhagen [Add to My Praize]
http://www.igl.ku.dk/MMB/Welcome.html
The MMB microfilm collection contains more than 680 items for use by scholars of Byzantine chant. Housed at the University of Copenhagen, Institute for Greek and Latin
Musica Russica [Add to My Praize]
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Source of Russian choral music. Provides descriptions, ratings, and sells many Russian Orthodox church music CDs. Also sells sheet music.
Psaltic Notes [Add to My Praize]
http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/frc/
Introduction to Byzantine Music theory and practice by Fr. Constantine J. Terss. Beautiful site with many Psalms.
Saint George Byzantine Music [Add to My Praize]
Offering transcribed Byzantine music, Orthodox church melodies and more than 7000 hymns to Western notation in English and Greek. Online audio samples.
Tonal System of the Orthodox Church [Add to My Praize]
http://dfw.orthodox.net/saint_nicholas/nvalaam/tonehist.htm
Short description of the history of chant in the Russian Church.
