PSALOM
Traditional Eastern Orthodox Chant Documentation Project
HYMNOGRAPHY: Sources for Eastern Slavic Chant Melodies

HOME – INTRODUCTION – CLASSIFIED BY GENRES

NOTE: The following is not a comprehensive catalog of chant books, but is a listing of original sources for chant melodies, especially for the 8 Tones. Later editions which reprint these melodies are generally not included in this list.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUTION

GROUP 1: Old Znamenny Chant – Neumatic Sources
1a. Znamenny chants from the older "bezpometnye" manuscripts
   
   
1b. Znamenny chants from the "naonnye" manuscripts
  • Pomorskii Obikhod
 (Moscow, 1911; also reprinted in the following source). These are the Old Rite, Type B notation version, and are the oldest documented versions having established pitches and note values. These are the most authoritative versions of the Great Russian Znamenny Chant that have been identified.
  • Pomorskii Popular Variants
 (document by E. Grigorev in "Пособие по изучению церковнаго пения и чтения", Riga, 2001).
   
1c. Znamenny chants from the newer "narechnye" manuscripts
  • Kalashnikov
 L.F. Kalashnikov (Oktai znamennago peniie, year and place unknown). Old Rite, Type A notation
  • Razumovskii
 D.V. Razumovskii (Krug tserkovnago drevniago znamennago peniia, St. Petersburg, 1884, vol. 1 of 6). Old Rite, Type A notation; these melodies are a slight variation of the Kalashnikov versions.
  • Popular Variants
 Type A Popular Variants (from field work conducted by Nikita Simmons, Woodburn, Oregon, 2004). Old Rite, Type A notation; these melodies are popular versions, as sung by the Chasovenny and Belokrinitsa Hierarchy Old Believers in Oregon.
   
GROUP 2: New Znamenny Chant – Notated Sources
2a. Square-note chant books
  • Synodal publications
 (Moscow, various editions).
  • Uchebnyi Obikhod
 (1911)
  • Sputnik Psalomshchika
 (Moscow, 1916 and many reprints).
  • Uspenskii Sobornik
 Uspenskii Sobor (Dormition Cathedral) Sbornik (Moscow, 1882)
  • Soloviev Uchebnik
 Uchebnik (Handbook for Church Singing by D. Soloviev, St. Petersburg, 1889).
  • Potulov
 N. Potulov (Rukovodstvo k prakticheskomu izucheniiu drevniago bogosuzhebnago peniia, Moscow, 1873).
   
2b. Round notes (later and contemporary settings)
  • Uspenskii
 N.D. Uspenskii (Н.Д. Успенский "Образцы Древнерусского певческого искусства". Москва, 1985).
  • Voznesenskii
 I.I. Voznesenskii (О церковном пении – большой и малый роспев, volume 2, St. Petersburg, 1889).
   
GROUP 3: Non-Znamenny Chant Systems
3a. Kievan Chant
   
   
3b. Russian Bulgarian Chant
   
   
3c. Russian Greek Chant
   
   
[3d. Dmestvenny Chant]
   
   
[3e. Put' Chant]
   
   
GROUP 4: Southwestern Russian Chant Sources
4a. Carpatho-Rusyn "Prostopinije" Chant
  • Lvov Irmologion
 (1709)
  • Prostopinije
 (Bokshai-Malinich, 1906)
   
4b. Galician "Samoilka/Samolivka" Chant
  • Polotniuk
 Polotniuk: Napivnik (1902)
  • Osmoglasnik
 [Galician] Osmoglasnik (Lvov, 1904)
4c. Bukovina Chant
   
4d. Local Kievan/Central-Ukrainian Chants
  • Ablamskii
  
   
GROUP 5: Regional Monastery and Cathedral Chants
5A. Northern Sub-group
   5A-a. Valaam Monastery melodies
  • Valaam Obikhod
 Valaam Monastery Obikhod (1909).
   5A-b. Solovetskii Monastery melodies
   
   5A-c. Moscow Uspenskii Sobor melodies
   
   5A-d. Krasnogorsk Monastery melodies
   
   5A-e. Prophet Elias Skete (Mt. Athos) melodies
   
MISCELLANEOUS Сборник "Подобны монастырских распевов" (сост. арх. Матфей) - kliros.ru
5B. Southwestern Sub-group
   5B-a. Kiev Caves Lavra melodies (separate from the Kievan Chant)
   
   5B-b. Pochaev Lavra melodies
   
   5B-c. Glinsk Hermitage melodies
   
5D. Central Russian Sub-group
   5C-a. Optina Hermitage melodies
   
   5C-b. Seven-Lakes Hermitage melodies
   
5D. Urban Sub-group
   5D-a. St. Petersburg Court Chant
  Гласы Санкт-Петербургской традиции (kliros.ru)
   5D-b. Common ("Obikhod") Chant