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Name: Nicholas Polydorou
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Comment: It is with great enthusiasm that I write to you after stumbling onto your website. I appreciate the amount of work it must have taken you to put it all together. I LOVE IT!
Relating to the Liturgy, I was working with Word using the Snipping Tool to paste in the musical PDF in order to provide the singers a better flow of the music while providing the musical response for each phrase the priest says. I got up to the Our Father and then I discovered NewByz and was delighted to see that you already had done all of the work in both Greek and English. Not only that, but you provided an MP3 of the musical phrases for those who can not read music. Your website is a goldmine of information, thank you so much!
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Name: Julian Garcia
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Comment: Thanks for such a great resource. Many blessings.
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Name: Chris Mouzourides
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Comment: I have downloaded many documents from your website in the past and help me to understand Byzantine music. I am very grateful to you.
May God give the strength to continue this good work.
Reply: Thank you, Chris!
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Name: Marina
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Name: Vincent
Comment: I’m praying to the Lord the Father to continue my singing in Enschede (Netherlands) with Twens Byzantijns Koor (TBK) with deep musical intention and spirit of IvoBoycheck.
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Name: Louis Lambros
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Comment: Member of St. Sophia GOC Choir, Elgin, IL.
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Name: Lynne Vasiliades
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Comment: Hi Stan and Nancy - Thank-you for this site. I was looking for music for a Holy Week hymn. Kali Anastasi!!
Reply: Kali Anastasi, Lynne!
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Name: Thomas Carroll
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Name: Aaron Fekaris
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Comment: Your website is teaching me how to sing better and to read Greek better. Thank you.
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Name: Patti Guzik
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Comment: I am the manager for our Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church choir here in Dallas, Texas.
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Name: Alexander Lynch
Comment: Christ is Born! Thank you for this resource!
Reply: Glorify Him!
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Name: Pirotis
Email: [email protected]
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Name: Niko Gonatos
Comment: I absolutely love this site!! I am one of the organists at St. Nicholas in Tarpon Springs, FL, and I used this site very frequently for printing out the beautiful hymns of the Church. Thank you, Newbyz.com, for providing music to the many Greek Orthodox chuches.
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Name: Terry D Hartman
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Comment: I’ve been using your site as a reference for a while and need to tell you thank you! This is awesome.
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Name: Ryan J. Kiel
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Comment: Your website is excellent. Thank you for this amazing resource. I am the Choir Director and Organist at St. Athanasios Greek Orthodox Church of Paramus, New Jersey. I am the former student of Kathryn Athanasoulas of Holy Trinity, Westfield, NJ (my childhood parish). I am a recent graduate. I love everything on this site. The melodies are excellent and your site always allows me to transcribed music using your melodies for my choir. I also thoroughly enjoy the English translations that you have.
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Name: Sophia S Konstantarakis
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Comment: I want to say THANK YOU for this wonderful resource of Orthodox music. I can’t tell you how often I use it. May God bless you for all your efforts and for the ministry you provide for the Orthodox Church. Thank you!!!
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Name: Frank L. Reder
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Comment: I am the Choir librarian for Holy Trinity in Toledo, Ohio. Our Chanter has referred me to your website when I can’t find a hymn for our services. I really appreciate what you’ve done!
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Name: Phoebe Jonas
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Name: Jeremiah
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Comment: Dear Nancy and Stan, Christ is risen! Thank you for your website which has been helpful to me as an English-speaking Orthodox who serves at the kliros. I am trying to learn to chant in Greek and find that the romanisation you provide in the scores helps.
Reply: Truly, He is risen. Very happy to help.
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Name: Emily Spanos
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Comment: This is a great site! God Bless all who were involved with this site’s development.
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Name: Fr. Matthew Swehla
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Comment: Dear Nancy, I am looking for music for Let Our Mouths Be Filled, the hymn following, We Have Seen the True Light, in the Divine Liturgy. I cant seem to find such a hymn on your website. Can you help? Thank you! In Christ, Fr. Matthew
Reply: We have put it up under the “Divine Liturgy” section of the main page.
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Name: Bill Meinweiser
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Comment: Thank you for your work and collection of the Psalms with their tones. I am just starting out cantoring for my United Methodist congregation and your examples have been a wonderful reference.
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Name: Terry Hartman
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Comment: This site is awesome! Thank you for using your gifts to put all this together for The Church. A true servant of the Lord. Terry
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Name: Toula
Comment: Thank you for such an informative website! As a lay person I am on a journey to understand more fully the Greek Orthodox Church service. My Greek is basic, and to listen to the archaic Greek often spoken and/or chanted during services is difficult without some English translation to guide me. Your PDF references are equally wonderful to provide direction and sequence to the services. Efharisto! Rgds,
Reply: Parakalo!
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Name: Linus Hollis, ScD
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Comment: Brava, thank you for the wonderful resource.
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Name: Robert Taylor
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Comment: Thanks so much. I found O Virgin Pure, Western score, in Greek and English. – Robert
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Name: Frank L. Reder III
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Comment: This is a very well organized and fabulous resource!
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Name: Zoi Fontaine
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Comment: Glory to God for your website! I have been tasked with learning the tones in order to teach others in my parish. I have studied Western music all my life but have no experience with Byzantine music at all. I wish to immerse myself in this and your website.
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Name: Elaine Trainor
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Comment: THANK YOU FOR THIS INCREDIBLE WEB PAGE! Finally, English language Byzantine hymns in Western notation that don’t dumb down the melodies.
Reply: We work very long and hard at metering the English to the melodies while retaining the clarity, flow, and poetry of the words. We do not wish to sacrifice either the traditional melodies or the magnificent texts.
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Name: Peter Joannidis
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Comment: Wow! A great assemblage of information. What an effort -- to be commended. Thank you and God bless you.
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Name: George
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Comment: Love your website. Use much of your music. Do you by any chance have the Greek Nation Anthem in Greek/English. Kalli Anastasi. Thanks.
Reply: We do have it. It’s in the “Anthems” section of Individual Hymns.
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Name: Nikolla
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Name: Anne Conover
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Comment: God bless you and all who made this site possible for Western musicians. I cannot tell you how wonderful it is to have this generous resource.
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Name: Julian
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Comment: I came upon your site by accident. It has helped me provide English translations for our little choir at St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Palm Desert, CA. Many thanks! Many blessings! I’m an Orthodox convert and a non- professional singer. I’m the librarian of our choir at St. George. I came across your site while looking for Liturgical hymns. Your site has proved an invaluable resource and guide in learning the hymns of our Church, especially the English translations that fit more accurately to the original Greek music. We are so grateful.
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Name: Athena
Comment: What a wonderful and beautifully done website. As the organist of my church, I find the information and music available extremely helpful! Thank you for all the time it must have taken to put this together. Well done!
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Name: Δάφνη
Comment: This site is wonderful, thank you!
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Name: John Kokenis
Comment: Thank you for this wonderful compilation of hymns. I have been searching for a while and, by God’s Grace, I found NewByz.
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Name: Tony
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Comment: Thank you for a great web site. God Bless you.
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Name: Father James Adams
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Comment: I have just found your website and it is beneficial to all choir directors and clergy. Thank you.
Answer: You’re welcome, Father. Thank you for letting us know.
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Name: Georgia Booras
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Comment: Wonderful website! As the choir director in Shreveport, LA this site was extremely helpful to find some hard find hymns with music and/or English translations. Nice job!
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Name: George Gavallos
Comment: Excellent web site! Great tool. I use it a lot. Keep up the good work to the Glory of His Name. Question: do you have the Salutations, The Canon, Odes 1-9 in Byzantine notation with the same exact lyrics? It would help me if available. Thanks Again.
Answer: We now have it available in Byzantine notation on our services page. http://newbyz.org/services.html
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Name: Tony Vatousios
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Comment: Thank you for your great resource. I am the Choir director in Peabody, MA at St. Vasilios Church. Without your available handouts I would need to do a lot more work on my own. God Bless you!
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Name: George
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Comment: Lovely Website! Question, Will the Roubanis version of Kassiani, at the top of the page, have a MIDI/Audio file anytime soon? It would be a great help for us here at St. Sophias GOC in San Antonio, TX. Either way, Thanks for all you do. Keep up the great work.
Answer: We now have MIDI files to almost all of the shorter hymns.
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Name: Andreas
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Comment: Beautifull web page. I cannot find the hymn Simerom tis Sotiriou. Can you please help? I learnt this song as a child and would like to re-learn it.
Answer: This apolytikion is located under the Annunciation, March 25, of the Menaion section of the hymns page. Here is a direct link to the hymn: http://www.newbyz.org/annunciationtrop.pdf
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Name: Anne Ktorides
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Comment: Terrific job organizing and updating all these hymns... you make it so much easier for us non-Greek speakers to find and sing understandable hymns for the liturgy!
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Name: Irene Georgantas
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Comment: Keep up the good work.
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Name: Betty Papas
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Comment: Your website is a delight. I was so glad to receive St. Katherine’s hymn. Thank you.
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Name: Advayananda
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Comment: Living in Reunion Island (Indian Ocean), I recently discovered the beauty of Byzantine music and I would like to learn more about it. Though I am Hindu, I feel that Byzantine music is also wonderful.
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Name: Julia C.
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Comment: Hi. Thank you for these resources, which I found today. I am just newly exploring Orthodoxy, and, though I grew up with sung Liturgy, it was in a Lutheran Church, so my ear has been trained in the Western musical style. I was trying to understand the Tones.
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Name: Athena Gouios
Comment: Thank so much for “Eis Pasa tin gein.” It was a hard Communion hymn to find. You made my day.
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Name: Kathy Harris
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Name: Stephanous Tanner
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Comment: Thank you so much for all that you do. I have learned so much from the study of your pages. You provide a remarkable asset for us faithful which are far from the hub and cities.
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Name: Voula Brown
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Comment: I’m the choir director for the Holy Trinity GO church in San Francisco. I enjoy your music arrangements and will be trying a few for our choir. Thank you.
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Name: George Kafantaris
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Comment: Great website. I wish there was more audio to correspond with the music sheets and articles.
Answer: We now have MIDI files to almost all of the shorter hymns.
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Name: John Haydukovich
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Comment: Great site ... I don’t have a good midi player - need mp3’s of each hymn. NEW to Greek Chant and Greek Liturgy.
Answer: MIDI files should play on any computer, at least. If you need to convert MIDI files to MP3’s, there is a freeware program to do this at:
http://download.cnet.com/Free-MIDI-to-MP3-Converter/3000-2140_4-75211970.html?part=dl-6271686&subj=dl&tag=button
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Name: Gregory Latoja, Jr.
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Comment: Great website! Great job!
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Name: Richard England
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Comment: As a convert, I find your collection of hymns extremely useful, especially when I have to direct the choir here in Ocean City MD! Thank you!
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Name: Tony Vatousios
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Comment: Thank you for this site. It has helped me on a short notice find stuff. I am a choir director and psaltis in Peabody, Massachusetts.
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Name: Dimosthenis Kouskoukis
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Comment: I chant in Thessaloniki, and I found your site really interesting. Congratulations.
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Name: James Raptis
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Comment: Dear Stan and Nancy: Thanks to our priests using your texts for Lenten services I have also now discovered a wealth of information for learning to chant. May God’s grace continue to shower your efforts for His glory.
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Name: Renee Root
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Hello, Nancy. Vicki Pappas directed me to your website. My Youth Choir is doing a project to learn about/ research their baptismal saints/feasts, and I found some Apolitikia I needed on your site. However, I am still in need of the hymns for St. Christina
Answer: The apolytikion for St. Christina is the one for female martyrs, which can now be found under the Menaion section for July 24.
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Name: Alan T Chaddon
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Comment: It is terrific to see this music here. I am a convert singing in Holy Trinity GOC church choir in Orlando, FL. I love the music and want to help our church do the right music during Holy Week especially. It is good to see these versions here.
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Name: Seraphima
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Comment: Dear Stan - thank you for your hard work in compiling all this information in English form. I dispute with you, however, the use of the term first class second class and third class Feasts, however; I would like to see this expression modified or corrected.
Answer: I got this information from the Orthodox Wiki, so I guess it could be a matter of some debate. I’ll consult my priest.
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Name: Dr. Abert G. Fadell
Email: [email protected]
Comment: I am trying to e-mail a letter to you, but I get a message that the recipient cannot be found. Can you send me you current e-mail address. I used [email protected].
Answer: That’s the correct address. Please try again.
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Name: Peg Basile
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Comment: I’m looking for O mitran parthenikin, the Kontakion for Jan 16, 23, & Feb 6th. Thanks, Peg
Answer: Look in the Menaion page under February 2 – The Presentation of Christ in the Temple.
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Name: Matthew
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Hi, great work Would you be able to post the Byzantine music for Ευλογήσω Τον Κύριον and Ευλογει η ψυχή μοθ, τον Κύριον psalm 33 and 102 and 135 Greek much appreciated. Keep it up
Answer: Ι hope we will be able to put up some Greek Psalms in the near future.
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Name: Dena Platingos
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Comment: I really enjoy listening to and chanting Byzantine music.
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Name: Peter Brooke
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Comment: I’m just amazed at what you’re doing. I’m several steps short of becoming a beginner in this field (necessity through involvement in a small parish in Wales) but as the cartoonist R. Crumb would put it: Dis is de stuff.
Reply: Yowsuh!
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Name: Guest User
Comment: Thank you for your interesting and helpful work.
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Name: Fr. John Maheras
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Comment: Dear Cousin, Fr. John Maheras here. Do you by any chance have or know where I can find the Doxology in Plagal Fourth? Plus, a grammatical observation. Is it Plagal or Plagial? I have seen it both ways.
Answer: Plagal is correct. Papa Ephraim has the Plagal Fourth Doxology on the St. Anthony’s Monastery website. I will be putting up a version by Nancy in the future.
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Name: Rina Grosso
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Comment: Enjoyed speaking to you on the 14th. Looking forward to meeting you and Nancy in November. Enjoyed your lecture on the computer. Best regards, Rina
Answer: Thanks, Rina. We had a lot of fun in Connecticut and met some wonderful people. You have a lovely voice.
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Name: Nikolaos Melikidze
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Name: Andrew White
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Comment: It was very flattering to find a reference to my dissertation on your site -- glad you found it worth reading. And the resources you’ve assembled here are wonderful! I look forward to using them.
Best wishes -- Andy
P.S. -- If there is interest in a talk based on my work I’d be happy to arrange one, so keep it in mind.
Answer: Thanks, Andy, and thank you for an excellent thesis. I would love to see the National Forum arrange a talk at a Church Music Institute. I will suggest it to Vicki Pappas.
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Name: Jon Gillespie
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Comment: I am working on a musical project, which includes an album of Greek Orthodox chant. It has not been released yet, however, as I develop the web site and prepare for release, I was hoping you might find it an interesting way to promote this wonderful music.
Answer: Please keep me posted, Jon. My email is [email protected].
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Name: Gregory
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Comment: Good site! Glad I found it. Do you have a setting in 4 parts of Let my prayer arise as incense?
Answer: We have Kyrie Ekekraxa from Vespers in each of the eight tones in Greek and English, but none in four parts.
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Name: Fr. John Bociu
Comment: Thank you for such a great effort and for a wonderful, excellent, well done job. God bless you, your work and your family.
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Name: Melissa
Comment: Thank you for your page. As a novice chanter, I can tell you I need as much help as time allows.
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Name: Father Bob
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Great Website! Much information and lots of music not available elsewhere. When I tried to access the guestbook via Foxfire it did not connect. When I accessed the guestbook from AOL I was able to connect.
Answer: I think the problem has been fixed and was not caused by which browser one uses. I think you connected on AOL after I fixed the problem.
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Name: Vangeli Avgerinos
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Comments: Excellent site!!!
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Name: leanna sterios-primiani
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Comments: Great site! I’ve been looking everywhere for this info. and am thrilled to find it! I have a question for you: I’m looking for either the written music (modern notation) for the baptism service and/or a recording. Does that exist? Thanks!
Answer: Thanks, Leanna. I will try to get the baptism music for you soon. I’ll send an email.
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Name: Mackie JV Blanton
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Comments: MAY GOD GRANT YOU MANY YEARS
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Name: Martha Roldan
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Comments: Hello Nancy, Last week I visited the monastery, spent 2 days sewing, stayed with Fr. Dennis and Pres. Joan. Thanks for the MIDI and pdf files in preparation for the coming feast days. Hoping to see you soon, Martha (from Annunciation Church in Muskegon)
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Name: Michael Foster
Comments: Thank you for all the effort in putting this together. It’s so helpful. God Bless.
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Name: Angelo Lampousis
Comments: Dear Nancy and Stan, The very active Fr. Christopher Metropulos of Orthodox Christian Network introduced a new pod-cast series in collaboration with Cosmos FM and the Axion Estin Foundation. Check the (top) news at the Axion Estin homepage: http://www.axionestin.org
Answer: Thanks, Angelo, for all the hard work you put in on these things.
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Name: Fr. Gregory Hohnholt
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Fr. Stavros from Chattanouga, TN referred me. Nice web site.
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Name: Dr. Peter Jermihov
Email: [email protected]
Comments: I am a trained musician/conductor who has directed Russian Orthodox Church music for a long time. Now, I am serving as a choir director in a Greek Orthodox Church. Your website is wonderful and so, so helpful! Thank you! Reader Peter
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Name: Thespina Macres
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Comments: Thank you, thank you, needed hymns for Holy Sat AM - high school chant group. PERFECT!! Blessed Triodion!
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Name: Stavrula Crafa
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Comments: Great site. But I’m trying to find English music for the hymn for St. Stefanos. Can anyone help me? Thank you.
Answer: Look at December 27 under the Menaion/December section.
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Name: philip xavier
Comments: Great work!! May God Almighty continue to bless your ministry.
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Name: Emanuel Creekus
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Comments: At a community Christmas concert, your arrangements were a big hit! Will send you a message through your Yahoo club.
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Name: Christine Kerxhalli
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Comments: I can’t tell you how helpful your website has been to me. I am the A Cappella Choir Director at the Annunciation in Rochester, New York and I use Nancy’s Three-Part Harmony and New Byzantine Chant Divine Liturgy along with all your other music availability.
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Name: Dennis
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Just became aware of your site. What a great resource! I really appreciate the midi files too. Keep up the terrific work!
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Name: Nikolaos
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Very great source of information and chanting material that would otherwise cost lots of money. I have been using your text in our church since Easter. Thank you!
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Name: Laura
Email: [email protected]
Comments: What a beautiful & helpful site. I’ve been looking for the Lord’s Prayer transliteration and found the entire Liturgy transliterated!
Thank You!
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Name: Rdr. John Paise
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Comments: Great Site! Gleaning lots of information. Keep up the great work.
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Name: Fr. Anastasios Gounaris
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Dear Nancy and Stan, This site is a treasure trove. May God bless and keep you both so that you may continue performing this invaluable service for our Church. May you have a meaningful Holy Week and a joyful Pascha. Fr. Taso Gounaris
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Name: J. Johnson
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Thank-you, thank-you for this website! YOU are AMAZING! It is FABULOUS! Everything I could ask for. :)
Joanne Johnson Director, Sunday School Choir, St. George, Bethesda, MD.
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Name: George Lopos
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Is anyone publishing Roubanis typeset in both Greek and English? The manuscripts are quaint, but they are difficult to follow, and especially if the singer doesn’t read Greek. Resetting them and translating it would be a great contribution to the choir.
Answer: Greek version is finished and on the Orthros page.
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Name: Fotini Yiangou
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Good site .. pretty informative .. need more time to check it out more. Thank You.
Ciao, Fotini
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Name: Lisette
Comments: Thank you. Very enthusiastic about this special site. Congratulations!
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Name: Diane Trimis
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Very informative. I got to the site via the SE choir federation. Your site has been saved as a favorite. As a convert, the more I learn, the more I know that I don’t know. Thanks.
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Name: George Manos
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Thank you for a super effort. George Manos, Music Director, St. John the Theologian Cathedral, Tenafly, NJ
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Name: Joanne Johnson
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Junior Choir director, St. George, Bethesda, MD. THANK-YOU FOR THIS SITE!!!!!
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Name: Terry Kastanis
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Just made copies of your new Divine Liturgy, Greek and English. You both did a wonderful job in pulling all this info. together in one volume. Thank you very much. The Forum should adopt it in total and quit this Oli Mazi stuff. Regards, Terry
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Name: Jan Adrian
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Just checking through my e-mail after the convention and saw Vicki’s note about you and Nancy with your Website. So I am checking it out - you did a great job. Again congratulations to both of you on your award Saturday evening.
Jan
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Name: Suzy Balasis
Email: [email protected]
Comments: I’ve just begun exploring your website, but I’m very impressed at what I’ve seen so far. Thank you for this contribution to the hymnology and practice of such in the Orthodox Church is America.
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Name: Scott Harrington
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Dear friend, I am new to Orthodoxy: prayer, etc. There is a lot to learn that is new, such as the Ochtoechos, Book of Eight Tones. Which English edition of this book would you recommend for someone new to learning Orthodox Church hymns? Always, Scott Harrington
Answer: If you just need an English translation, you can find one at: http://anastasis.org.uk/oktoich.htm
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Name: Steffi Tassos
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Kali spera! I am a professional singer and have been chanting for about 1 year now. My background is in popular music - in particular, Gospel, R&B, and Country - so you can imagine the challenges I face in trying to adapt my sound to the Byzantine style.
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Name: Timothy Douglas Alvey
Email: [email protected]
Comments: A great resource you’ve got going here. I was referred by the St. Anthony’s site when looking for a source for David Melling’s work. I was a student at the recent Koukouzelis Institute (organized by John Michael Boyer) where Fr. Ephraim (Lash) told me of Mr. Melling’s book.
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Name: Archpriest Lawrence
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Comments: XPICTOC ANECTI! Very nice site. It was a pleasure to meet you at our food festival.
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Name: Fr. Elias Drossos
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Comments: What wonderful work!! A great source of information for those who wish to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation for Byzantine Music. Panta Axios!!
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Name: Jim Vardakis
Email: [email protected]
Comments: I just opened your website through Vicki. It is very interesting. I will look further into it and let you know.
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Name: Presvytera Pat Tsagalakis
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Nancy, Thank you so much for all of us at Holy Apostles in Shoreline, WA. This morning our choir sang your arrangement with great joy Let all Mortal Flesh - the entire congregation was singing with us as it matched our Holy Week book translation. THANK YOU!
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Name: George Mazarakis
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Congratulations on your invaluable work and thank you so very much! I run a small choir in Johannesburg, South Africa at the Chapel of the Greek School, SAHETI. MANY, MANY THANKS!
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Name: Joanne Patrick
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Thank you for your website. I am choir director of Holy Spirit OCA in Wantage, NJ. A most joyous Pascha to you! JP
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Name: Christina
Comments: Beautifully done.
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Name: Vivi
Email: vivi_astefanei
Comments: Buna Ziua! Este foarte frumos si de buna calitate ceea ce am gasit ca informatie pe acest sitte , ma bucur si sper sa afle si altii despre dumneavoastra. Cu respect din Romania, Kassia
Translation: Hello! The information I found on this website is very beautiful and of good quality. I am glad and I hope to find out more about you. With respect from Romania, Kassia
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Name: Najeeb Haddad
Email: [email protected]
Comments: It’s a great relief to find all these texts! God bless you.
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Name: Lara Willingham
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Thank you so much for publishing our beautiful Orthodox hymns with English texts and Western notation! I am an American musician who converted to Orthodoxy 10 years ago. I enjoyed singing the beautiful hymns in the choir with our accomplished well-trained director.
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Name: Diana Ott
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Dear Nancy and Stan, Thanks for all the work you do on this web site; it is an invaluable resource for Orthodox musicians. Nancy, you truly have an amazing gift; your settings of hymns in English never fail to be graceful and natural.
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Name: Artemis Palios
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Dear Nancy, I enjoyed meeting you and Stanley in Milwaukee and enjoyed your workshops too. I plan to use some of your arrangements with my choir—they’re wonderful.
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Name: George Dalagelis
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Dear Stan & Nancy: It was nice meeting and chatting with you in Nashville. I have been using your material quite often and I am grateful for the bilingual pieces. Any chance of having a complete Liturgy in Byzantine Chant First / Plagal First Tone (D minor)?
Answer: The Plagal First liturgy is now on the website in the Complete Liturgy book.
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Name: Stephen Reynolds
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Stan, there is a lot of fine stuff here--thanks! I’m looking at your Name That Tone essay, which I want to hand out to our parish group that is learning Byzantine notation.
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Name: Stole
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Brothers, my name is Stole. I am psalti. I love very much Byzantine music and I want a CD from this company. I am poor man. I not have money. GOD WITH YOU.
Answer: We have not yet produced a CD of the music here. Please refer to our MP3 page for free sound recording downloads.
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Name: Cathy
Email: [email protected]
Comments: We are a poor seminary in Johannesburg that deals with street children, the poor and the homeless. Thank you for this wonderful source of translated Greek into English for us to learn. St. Raphael Seminary. Our priest is Father Athanasi Akunda.
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Name: George Black
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Glory to God for all things! Dear Mr. Takis, Just a little note of appreciation and thanks for you and your family’s hard work on this beautiful and informative web site. I also value and have learned much from you and your input on the yahoo chant forums.
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Name: Michael Khoury
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Stan, I saw the reference to your site and some of your posts on the PSALM list. While I belong to an American parish in Detroit, I am interested in learning about the chant form and will visit. Michael
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Name: Volkert Nicholas Volkersz
Comments: Stan, Thanks for all the help and information you’ve provided me as I begin to embrace Byzantine music. And thanks for the stimulating discussion you provide on the PSALM list.
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Name: George Tzougros
Comments: Thank you for this wonderful resource! The choir here in Madison, Wisconsin loves your Enite that combines both Greek and English. I found it here on your site! Again, thank you.
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Name: Nicholas Polydorou
Email: [email protected]
Comment: It is with great enthusiasm that I write to you after stumbling onto your website. I appreciate the amount of work it must have taken you to put it all together. I LOVE IT!
Relating to the Liturgy, I was working with Word using the Snipping Tool to paste in the musical PDF in order to provide the singers a better flow of the music while providing the musical response for each phrase the priest says. I got up to the Our Father and then I discovered NewByz and was delighted to see that you already had done all of the work in both Greek and English. Not only that, but you provided an MP3 of the musical phrases for those who can not read music. Your website is a goldmine of information, thank you so much!
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Name: Julian Garcia
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Thanks for such a great resource. Many blessings.
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Name: Chris Mouzourides
Email: [email protected]
Comment: I have downloaded many documents from your website in the past and help me to understand Byzantine music. I am very grateful to you.
May God give the strength to continue this good work.
Reply: Thank you, Chris!
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Name: Marina
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Name: Vincent
Comment: I’m praying to the Lord the Father to continue my singing in Enschede (Netherlands) with Twens Byzantijns Koor (TBK) with deep musical intention and spirit of IvoBoycheck.
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Name: Louis Lambros
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Member of St. Sophia GOC Choir, Elgin, IL.
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Name: Lynne Vasiliades
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Hi Stan and Nancy - Thank-you for this site. I was looking for music for a Holy Week hymn. Kali Anastasi!!
Reply: Kali Anastasi, Lynne!
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Name: Thomas Carroll
Email: [email protected]
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Name: Aaron Fekaris
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Your website is teaching me how to sing better and to read Greek better. Thank you.
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Name: Patti Guzik
Email: [email protected]
Comment: I am the manager for our Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church choir here in Dallas, Texas.
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Name: Alexander Lynch
Comment: Christ is Born! Thank you for this resource!
Reply: Glorify Him!
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Name: Pirotis
Email: [email protected]
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Name: Niko Gonatos
Comment: I absolutely love this site!! I am one of the organists at St. Nicholas in Tarpon Springs, FL, and I used this site very frequently for printing out the beautiful hymns of the Church. Thank you, Newbyz.com, for providing music to the many Greek Orthodox chuches.
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Name: Terry D Hartman
Email: [email protected]
Comment: I’ve been using your site as a reference for a while and need to tell you thank you! This is awesome.
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Name: Ryan J. Kiel
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Your website is excellent. Thank you for this amazing resource. I am the Choir Director and Organist at St. Athanasios Greek Orthodox Church of Paramus, New Jersey. I am the former student of Kathryn Athanasoulas of Holy Trinity, Westfield, NJ (my childhood parish). I am a recent graduate. I love everything on this site. The melodies are excellent and your site always allows me to transcribed music using your melodies for my choir. I also thoroughly enjoy the English translations that you have.
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Name: Sophia S Konstantarakis
Email: [email protected]
Comment: I want to say THANK YOU for this wonderful resource of Orthodox music. I can’t tell you how often I use it. May God bless you for all your efforts and for the ministry you provide for the Orthodox Church. Thank you!!!
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Name: Frank L. Reder
Email: [email protected]
Comment: I am the Choir librarian for Holy Trinity in Toledo, Ohio. Our Chanter has referred me to your website when I can’t find a hymn for our services. I really appreciate what you’ve done!
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Name: Phoebe Jonas
Email: [email protected]
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Name: Jeremiah
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Dear Nancy and Stan, Christ is risen! Thank you for your website which has been helpful to me as an English-speaking Orthodox who serves at the kliros. I am trying to learn to chant in Greek and find that the romanisation you provide in the scores helps.
Reply: Truly, He is risen. Very happy to help.
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Name: Emily Spanos
Email: [email protected]
Comment: This is a great site! God Bless all who were involved with this site’s development.
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Name: Fr. Matthew Swehla
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Dear Nancy, I am looking for music for Let Our Mouths Be Filled, the hymn following, We Have Seen the True Light, in the Divine Liturgy. I cant seem to find such a hymn on your website. Can you help? Thank you! In Christ, Fr. Matthew
Reply: We have put it up under the “Divine Liturgy” section of the main page.
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Name: Bill Meinweiser
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Thank you for your work and collection of the Psalms with their tones. I am just starting out cantoring for my United Methodist congregation and your examples have been a wonderful reference.
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Name: Terry Hartman
Email: [email protected]
Comment: This site is awesome! Thank you for using your gifts to put all this together for The Church. A true servant of the Lord. Terry
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Name: Toula
Comment: Thank you for such an informative website! As a lay person I am on a journey to understand more fully the Greek Orthodox Church service. My Greek is basic, and to listen to the archaic Greek often spoken and/or chanted during services is difficult without some English translation to guide me. Your PDF references are equally wonderful to provide direction and sequence to the services. Efharisto! Rgds,
Reply: Parakalo!
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Name: Linus Hollis, ScD
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Brava, thank you for the wonderful resource.
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Name: Robert Taylor
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Thanks so much. I found O Virgin Pure, Western score, in Greek and English. – Robert
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Name: Frank L. Reder III
Email: [email protected]
Comment: This is a very well organized and fabulous resource!
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Name: Zoi Fontaine
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Glory to God for your website! I have been tasked with learning the tones in order to teach others in my parish. I have studied Western music all my life but have no experience with Byzantine music at all. I wish to immerse myself in this and your website.
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Name: Elaine Trainor
Email: [email protected]
Comment: THANK YOU FOR THIS INCREDIBLE WEB PAGE! Finally, English language Byzantine hymns in Western notation that don’t dumb down the melodies.
Reply: We work very long and hard at metering the English to the melodies while retaining the clarity, flow, and poetry of the words. We do not wish to sacrifice either the traditional melodies or the magnificent texts.
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Name: Peter Joannidis
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Wow! A great assemblage of information. What an effort -- to be commended. Thank you and God bless you.
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Name: George
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Love your website. Use much of your music. Do you by any chance have the Greek Nation Anthem in Greek/English. Kalli Anastasi. Thanks.
Reply: We do have it. It’s in the “Anthems” section of Individual Hymns.
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Name: Nikolla
Email: [email protected]
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Name: Anne Conover
Email: [email protected]
Comment: God bless you and all who made this site possible for Western musicians. I cannot tell you how wonderful it is to have this generous resource.
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Name: Julian
Email: [email protected]
Comment: I came upon your site by accident. It has helped me provide English translations for our little choir at St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Palm Desert, CA. Many thanks! Many blessings! I’m an Orthodox convert and a non- professional singer. I’m the librarian of our choir at St. George. I came across your site while looking for Liturgical hymns. Your site has proved an invaluable resource and guide in learning the hymns of our Church, especially the English translations that fit more accurately to the original Greek music. We are so grateful.
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Name: Athena
Comment: What a wonderful and beautifully done website. As the organist of my church, I find the information and music available extremely helpful! Thank you for all the time it must have taken to put this together. Well done!
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Name: Δάφνη
Comment: This site is wonderful, thank you!
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Name: John Kokenis
Comment: Thank you for this wonderful compilation of hymns. I have been searching for a while and, by God’s Grace, I found NewByz.
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Name: Tony
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Thank you for a great web site. God Bless you.
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Name: Father James Adams
Email: [email protected]
Comment: I have just found your website and it is beneficial to all choir directors and clergy. Thank you.
Answer: You’re welcome, Father. Thank you for letting us know.
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Name: Georgia Booras
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Wonderful website! As the choir director in Shreveport, LA this site was extremely helpful to find some hard find hymns with music and/or English translations. Nice job!
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Name: George Gavallos
Comment: Excellent web site! Great tool. I use it a lot. Keep up the good work to the Glory of His Name. Question: do you have the Salutations, The Canon, Odes 1-9 in Byzantine notation with the same exact lyrics? It would help me if available. Thanks Again.
Answer: We now have it available in Byzantine notation on our services page. http://newbyz.org/services.html
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Name: Tony Vatousios
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Thank you for your great resource. I am the Choir director in Peabody, MA at St. Vasilios Church. Without your available handouts I would need to do a lot more work on my own. God Bless you!
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Name: George
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Lovely Website! Question, Will the Roubanis version of Kassiani, at the top of the page, have a MIDI/Audio file anytime soon? It would be a great help for us here at St. Sophias GOC in San Antonio, TX. Either way, Thanks for all you do. Keep up the great work.
Answer: We now have MIDI files to almost all of the shorter hymns.
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Name: Andreas
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Beautifull web page. I cannot find the hymn Simerom tis Sotiriou. Can you please help? I learnt this song as a child and would like to re-learn it.
Answer: This apolytikion is located under the Annunciation, March 25, of the Menaion section of the hymns page. Here is a direct link to the hymn: http://www.newbyz.org/annunciationtrop.pdf
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Name: Anne Ktorides
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Terrific job organizing and updating all these hymns... you make it so much easier for us non-Greek speakers to find and sing understandable hymns for the liturgy!
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Name: Irene Georgantas
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Keep up the good work.
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Name: Betty Papas
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Your website is a delight. I was so glad to receive St. Katherine’s hymn. Thank you.
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Name: Advayananda
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Living in Reunion Island (Indian Ocean), I recently discovered the beauty of Byzantine music and I would like to learn more about it. Though I am Hindu, I feel that Byzantine music is also wonderful.
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Name: Julia C.
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Hi. Thank you for these resources, which I found today. I am just newly exploring Orthodoxy, and, though I grew up with sung Liturgy, it was in a Lutheran Church, so my ear has been trained in the Western musical style. I was trying to understand the Tones.
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Name: Athena Gouios
Comment: Thank so much for “Eis Pasa tin gein.” It was a hard Communion hymn to find. You made my day.
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Name: Kathy Harris
Email: [email protected]
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Name: Stephanous Tanner
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Thank you so much for all that you do. I have learned so much from the study of your pages. You provide a remarkable asset for us faithful which are far from the hub and cities.
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Name: Voula Brown
Email: [email protected]
Comment: I’m the choir director for the Holy Trinity GO church in San Francisco. I enjoy your music arrangements and will be trying a few for our choir. Thank you.
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Name: George Kafantaris
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Great website. I wish there was more audio to correspond with the music sheets and articles.
Answer: We now have MIDI files to almost all of the shorter hymns.
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Name: John Haydukovich
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Great site ... I don’t have a good midi player - need mp3’s of each hymn. NEW to Greek Chant and Greek Liturgy.
Answer: MIDI files should play on any computer, at least. If you need to convert MIDI files to MP3’s, there is a freeware program to do this at:
http://download.cnet.com/Free-MIDI-to-MP3-Converter/3000-2140_4-75211970.html?part=dl-6271686&subj=dl&tag=button
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Name: Gregory Latoja, Jr.
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Great website! Great job!
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Name: Richard England
Email: [email protected]
Comment: As a convert, I find your collection of hymns extremely useful, especially when I have to direct the choir here in Ocean City MD! Thank you!
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Name: Tony Vatousios
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Thank you for this site. It has helped me on a short notice find stuff. I am a choir director and psaltis in Peabody, Massachusetts.
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Name: Dimosthenis Kouskoukis
Email: [email protected]
Comment: I chant in Thessaloniki, and I found your site really interesting. Congratulations.
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Name: James Raptis
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Dear Stan and Nancy: Thanks to our priests using your texts for Lenten services I have also now discovered a wealth of information for learning to chant. May God’s grace continue to shower your efforts for His glory.
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Name: Renee Root
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Hello, Nancy. Vicki Pappas directed me to your website. My Youth Choir is doing a project to learn about/ research their baptismal saints/feasts, and I found some Apolitikia I needed on your site. However, I am still in need of the hymns for St. Christina
Answer: The apolytikion for St. Christina is the one for female martyrs, which can now be found under the Menaion section for July 24.
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Name: Alan T Chaddon
Email: [email protected]
Comment: It is terrific to see this music here. I am a convert singing in Holy Trinity GOC church choir in Orlando, FL. I love the music and want to help our church do the right music during Holy Week especially. It is good to see these versions here.
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Name: Seraphima
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Dear Stan - thank you for your hard work in compiling all this information in English form. I dispute with you, however, the use of the term first class second class and third class Feasts, however; I would like to see this expression modified or corrected.
Answer: I got this information from the Orthodox Wiki, so I guess it could be a matter of some debate. I’ll consult my priest.
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Name: Dr. Abert G. Fadell
Email: [email protected]
Comment: I am trying to e-mail a letter to you, but I get a message that the recipient cannot be found. Can you send me you current e-mail address. I used [email protected].
Answer: That’s the correct address. Please try again.
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Name: Peg Basile
Email: [email protected]
Comment: I’m looking for O mitran parthenikin, the Kontakion for Jan 16, 23, & Feb 6th. Thanks, Peg
Answer: Look in the Menaion page under February 2 – The Presentation of Christ in the Temple.
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Name: Matthew
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Hi, great work Would you be able to post the Byzantine music for Ευλογήσω Τον Κύριον and Ευλογει η ψυχή μοθ, τον Κύριον psalm 33 and 102 and 135 Greek much appreciated. Keep it up
Answer: Ι hope we will be able to put up some Greek Psalms in the near future.
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Name: Dena Platingos
Email: [email protected]
Comment: I really enjoy listening to and chanting Byzantine music.
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Name: Peter Brooke
Email: [email protected]
Comment: I’m just amazed at what you’re doing. I’m several steps short of becoming a beginner in this field (necessity through involvement in a small parish in Wales) but as the cartoonist R. Crumb would put it: Dis is de stuff.
Reply: Yowsuh!
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Name: Guest User
Comment: Thank you for your interesting and helpful work.
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Name: Fr. John Maheras
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Dear Cousin, Fr. John Maheras here. Do you by any chance have or know where I can find the Doxology in Plagal Fourth? Plus, a grammatical observation. Is it Plagal or Plagial? I have seen it both ways.
Answer: Plagal is correct. Papa Ephraim has the Plagal Fourth Doxology on the St. Anthony’s Monastery website. I will be putting up a version by Nancy in the future.
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Name: Rina Grosso
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Enjoyed speaking to you on the 14th. Looking forward to meeting you and Nancy in November. Enjoyed your lecture on the computer. Best regards, Rina
Answer: Thanks, Rina. We had a lot of fun in Connecticut and met some wonderful people. You have a lovely voice.
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Name: Nikolaos Melikidze
Email: [email protected]
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Name: Andrew White
Email: [email protected]
Comment: It was very flattering to find a reference to my dissertation on your site -- glad you found it worth reading. And the resources you’ve assembled here are wonderful! I look forward to using them.
Best wishes -- Andy
P.S. -- If there is interest in a talk based on my work I’d be happy to arrange one, so keep it in mind.
Answer: Thanks, Andy, and thank you for an excellent thesis. I would love to see the National Forum arrange a talk at a Church Music Institute. I will suggest it to Vicki Pappas.
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Name: Jon Gillespie
Email: [email protected]
Comment: I am working on a musical project, which includes an album of Greek Orthodox chant. It has not been released yet, however, as I develop the web site and prepare for release, I was hoping you might find it an interesting way to promote this wonderful music.
Answer: Please keep me posted, Jon. My email is [email protected].
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Name: Gregory
Email: [email protected]
Comment: Good site! Glad I found it. Do you have a setting in 4 parts of Let my prayer arise as incense?
Answer: We have Kyrie Ekekraxa from Vespers in each of the eight tones in Greek and English, but none in four parts.
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Name: Fr. John Bociu
Comment: Thank you for such a great effort and for a wonderful, excellent, well done job. God bless you, your work and your family.
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Name: Melissa
Comment: Thank you for your page. As a novice chanter, I can tell you I need as much help as time allows.
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Name: Father Bob
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Great Website! Much information and lots of music not available elsewhere. When I tried to access the guestbook via Foxfire it did not connect. When I accessed the guestbook from AOL I was able to connect.
Answer: I think the problem has been fixed and was not caused by which browser one uses. I think you connected on AOL after I fixed the problem.
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Name: Vangeli Avgerinos
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Excellent site!!!
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Name: leanna sterios-primiani
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Great site! I’ve been looking everywhere for this info. and am thrilled to find it! I have a question for you: I’m looking for either the written music (modern notation) for the baptism service and/or a recording. Does that exist? Thanks!
Answer: Thanks, Leanna. I will try to get the baptism music for you soon. I’ll send an email.
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Name: Mackie JV Blanton
Email: [email protected]
Comments: MAY GOD GRANT YOU MANY YEARS
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Name: Martha Roldan
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Hello Nancy, Last week I visited the monastery, spent 2 days sewing, stayed with Fr. Dennis and Pres. Joan. Thanks for the MIDI and pdf files in preparation for the coming feast days. Hoping to see you soon, Martha (from Annunciation Church in Muskegon)
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Name: Michael Foster
Comments: Thank you for all the effort in putting this together. It’s so helpful. God Bless.
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Name: Angelo Lampousis
Comments: Dear Nancy and Stan, The very active Fr. Christopher Metropulos of Orthodox Christian Network introduced a new pod-cast series in collaboration with Cosmos FM and the Axion Estin Foundation. Check the (top) news at the Axion Estin homepage: http://www.axionestin.org
Answer: Thanks, Angelo, for all the hard work you put in on these things.
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Name: Fr. Gregory Hohnholt
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Fr. Stavros from Chattanouga, TN referred me. Nice web site.
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Name: Dr. Peter Jermihov
Email: [email protected]
Comments: I am a trained musician/conductor who has directed Russian Orthodox Church music for a long time. Now, I am serving as a choir director in a Greek Orthodox Church. Your website is wonderful and so, so helpful! Thank you! Reader Peter
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Name: Thespina Macres
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Thank you, thank you, needed hymns for Holy Sat AM - high school chant group. PERFECT!! Blessed Triodion!
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Name: Stavrula Crafa
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Great site. But I’m trying to find English music for the hymn for St. Stefanos. Can anyone help me? Thank you.
Answer: Look at December 27 under the Menaion/December section.
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Name: philip xavier
Comments: Great work!! May God Almighty continue to bless your ministry.
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Name: Emanuel Creekus
Email: [email protected]
Comments: At a community Christmas concert, your arrangements were a big hit! Will send you a message through your Yahoo club.
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Name: Christine Kerxhalli
Email: [email protected]
Comments: I can’t tell you how helpful your website has been to me. I am the A Cappella Choir Director at the Annunciation in Rochester, New York and I use Nancy’s Three-Part Harmony and New Byzantine Chant Divine Liturgy along with all your other music availability.
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Name: Dennis
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Just became aware of your site. What a great resource! I really appreciate the midi files too. Keep up the terrific work!
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Name: Nikolaos
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Very great source of information and chanting material that would otherwise cost lots of money. I have been using your text in our church since Easter. Thank you!
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Name: Laura
Email: [email protected]
Comments: What a beautiful & helpful site. I’ve been looking for the Lord’s Prayer transliteration and found the entire Liturgy transliterated!
Thank You!
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Name: Rdr. John Paise
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Great Site! Gleaning lots of information. Keep up the great work.
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Name: Fr. Anastasios Gounaris
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Dear Nancy and Stan, This site is a treasure trove. May God bless and keep you both so that you may continue performing this invaluable service for our Church. May you have a meaningful Holy Week and a joyful Pascha. Fr. Taso Gounaris
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Name: J. Johnson
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Thank-you, thank-you for this website! YOU are AMAZING! It is FABULOUS! Everything I could ask for. :)
Joanne Johnson Director, Sunday School Choir, St. George, Bethesda, MD.
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Name: George Lopos
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Is anyone publishing Roubanis typeset in both Greek and English? The manuscripts are quaint, but they are difficult to follow, and especially if the singer doesn’t read Greek. Resetting them and translating it would be a great contribution to the choir.
Answer: Greek version is finished and on the Orthros page.
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Name: Fotini Yiangou
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Good site .. pretty informative .. need more time to check it out more. Thank You.
Ciao, Fotini
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Name: Lisette
Comments: Thank you. Very enthusiastic about this special site. Congratulations!
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Name: Diane Trimis
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Very informative. I got to the site via the SE choir federation. Your site has been saved as a favorite. As a convert, the more I learn, the more I know that I don’t know. Thanks.
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Name: George Manos
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Thank you for a super effort. George Manos, Music Director, St. John the Theologian Cathedral, Tenafly, NJ
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Name: Joanne Johnson
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Junior Choir director, St. George, Bethesda, MD. THANK-YOU FOR THIS SITE!!!!!
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Name: Terry Kastanis
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Just made copies of your new Divine Liturgy, Greek and English. You both did a wonderful job in pulling all this info. together in one volume. Thank you very much. The Forum should adopt it in total and quit this Oli Mazi stuff. Regards, Terry
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Name: Jan Adrian
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Just checking through my e-mail after the convention and saw Vicki’s note about you and Nancy with your Website. So I am checking it out - you did a great job. Again congratulations to both of you on your award Saturday evening.
Jan
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Name: Suzy Balasis
Email: [email protected]
Comments: I’ve just begun exploring your website, but I’m very impressed at what I’ve seen so far. Thank you for this contribution to the hymnology and practice of such in the Orthodox Church is America.
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Name: Scott Harrington
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Dear friend, I am new to Orthodoxy: prayer, etc. There is a lot to learn that is new, such as the Ochtoechos, Book of Eight Tones. Which English edition of this book would you recommend for someone new to learning Orthodox Church hymns? Always, Scott Harrington
Answer: If you just need an English translation, you can find one at: http://anastasis.org.uk/oktoich.htm
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Name: Steffi Tassos
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Kali spera! I am a professional singer and have been chanting for about 1 year now. My background is in popular music - in particular, Gospel, R&B, and Country - so you can imagine the challenges I face in trying to adapt my sound to the Byzantine style.
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Name: Timothy Douglas Alvey
Email: [email protected]
Comments: A great resource you’ve got going here. I was referred by the St. Anthony’s site when looking for a source for David Melling’s work. I was a student at the recent Koukouzelis Institute (organized by John Michael Boyer) where Fr. Ephraim (Lash) told me of Mr. Melling’s book.
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Name: Archpriest Lawrence
Email: [email protected]
Comments: XPICTOC ANECTI! Very nice site. It was a pleasure to meet you at our food festival.
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Name: Fr. Elias Drossos
Email: [email protected]
Comments: What wonderful work!! A great source of information for those who wish to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation for Byzantine Music. Panta Axios!!
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Name: Jim Vardakis
Email: [email protected]
Comments: I just opened your website through Vicki. It is very interesting. I will look further into it and let you know.
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Name: Presvytera Pat Tsagalakis
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Nancy, Thank you so much for all of us at Holy Apostles in Shoreline, WA. This morning our choir sang your arrangement with great joy Let all Mortal Flesh - the entire congregation was singing with us as it matched our Holy Week book translation. THANK YOU!
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Name: George Mazarakis
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Congratulations on your invaluable work and thank you so very much! I run a small choir in Johannesburg, South Africa at the Chapel of the Greek School, SAHETI. MANY, MANY THANKS!
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Name: Joanne Patrick
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Thank you for your website. I am choir director of Holy Spirit OCA in Wantage, NJ. A most joyous Pascha to you! JP
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Name: Christina
Comments: Beautifully done.
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Name: Vivi
Email: vivi_astefanei
Comments: Buna Ziua! Este foarte frumos si de buna calitate ceea ce am gasit ca informatie pe acest sitte , ma bucur si sper sa afle si altii despre dumneavoastra. Cu respect din Romania, Kassia
Translation: Hello! The information I found on this website is very beautiful and of good quality. I am glad and I hope to find out more about you. With respect from Romania, Kassia
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Name: Najeeb Haddad
Email: [email protected]
Comments: It’s a great relief to find all these texts! God bless you.
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Name: Lara Willingham
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Thank you so much for publishing our beautiful Orthodox hymns with English texts and Western notation! I am an American musician who converted to Orthodoxy 10 years ago. I enjoyed singing the beautiful hymns in the choir with our accomplished well-trained director.
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Name: Diana Ott
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Dear Nancy and Stan, Thanks for all the work you do on this web site; it is an invaluable resource for Orthodox musicians. Nancy, you truly have an amazing gift; your settings of hymns in English never fail to be graceful and natural.
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Name: Artemis Palios
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Dear Nancy, I enjoyed meeting you and Stanley in Milwaukee and enjoyed your workshops too. I plan to use some of your arrangements with my choir—they’re wonderful.
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Name: George Dalagelis
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Dear Stan & Nancy: It was nice meeting and chatting with you in Nashville. I have been using your material quite often and I am grateful for the bilingual pieces. Any chance of having a complete Liturgy in Byzantine Chant First / Plagal First Tone (D minor)?
Answer: The Plagal First liturgy is now on the website in the Complete Liturgy book.
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Name: Stephen Reynolds
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Stan, there is a lot of fine stuff here--thanks! I’m looking at your Name That Tone essay, which I want to hand out to our parish group that is learning Byzantine notation.
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Name: Stole
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Brothers, my name is Stole. I am psalti. I love very much Byzantine music and I want a CD from this company. I am poor man. I not have money. GOD WITH YOU.
Answer: We have not yet produced a CD of the music here. Please refer to our MP3 page for free sound recording downloads.
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Name: Cathy
Email: [email protected]
Comments: We are a poor seminary in Johannesburg that deals with street children, the poor and the homeless. Thank you for this wonderful source of translated Greek into English for us to learn. St. Raphael Seminary. Our priest is Father Athanasi Akunda.
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Name: George Black
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Glory to God for all things! Dear Mr. Takis, Just a little note of appreciation and thanks for you and your family’s hard work on this beautiful and informative web site. I also value and have learned much from you and your input on the yahoo chant forums.
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Name: Michael Khoury
Email: [email protected]
Comments: Stan, I saw the reference to your site and some of your posts on the PSALM list. While I belong to an American parish in Detroit, I am interested in learning about the chant form and will visit. Michael
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Name: Volkert Nicholas Volkersz
Comments: Stan, Thanks for all the help and information you’ve provided me as I begin to embrace Byzantine music. And thanks for the stimulating discussion you provide on the PSALM list.
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Name: George Tzougros
Comments: Thank you for this wonderful resource! The choir here in Madison, Wisconsin loves your Enite that combines both Greek and English. I found it here on your site! Again, thank you.
