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Musical Transcriptions of Paschal Hymns (by Nikita Simmons unless noted otherwise*):

Russian Znamenny Melodies:

Melodies for the Troparion for Pascha in Znamenny Chant.
Transcribed from printed sources and recordings of oral traditions (Old and New Rite Russian texts).

*The Paschal Hours – miscellaneous melodic sources by Archimandrite Kyril Jenner

The Paschal Canon: 1) Pomorskii Obikhod - Znamenny raspev (heirmological, naonnoe text); The Paschal Theotokia (from the same source)

The Paschal Canon: 2) Riga (Pomorskii) variant – "Na raspev" (abbreviated "naonnoe" text melodies) – in production

The Paschal Canon: 3) Erie (Pomorskii) variant – "Na raspev" (abbreviated "naonnoe" text melodies); The Paschal Theotokia (theoretical reconstruction); English adaptation – in production

The Paschal Canon: 4) Saratov (Fedoseevtsy/Staropomorskii) variant – "Na raspev" (abbreviated "naonnoe" text melodies) – in production

The Paschal Canon: 5) Moscow/Nizhnyi Novgorod variant – "Na raspev" (abbreviated "narechnoe" text melodies as sung in Oregon) – in production

Southwestern Russian Znamenny Melodies:

The Paschal Canon: 6) Galician variant – in production

The Canon and Stichera for Pascha: 7) Carpatho-Rusyn manuscript (Jasynov'skyj catalogue number 228, c. 1780’s) – (original square-note version / modern round-note version in alto clef; another version of the same) – The Heirmoi and Troparia of this version of the Paschal Canon are a Carpatho-Rusyn variant of Znamenij raspev, found in a staff manuscript. The texts are pre-Nikonian Slavonic, with a few Southwestern Russian peculiarities.

*Paschal Stichery – These traditional Carpathian Prostopenije folk harmonies were transcribed by Johanna Katchen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 2005.

Достойно есть, на 8 гласов. Знаменнаго распева.
Transcription of pre-Nikonian Znamenny Chant (from neumatic notation). Square-note notation.
Published source: Obednitsa znamennago i demestvennago raspeva, edited by L.F. Kalashnikov, Kiev, 1909.

Ипакои воскресны, на 8 гласов. Знаменнаго распева.
Transcription of pre-Nikonian Znamenny Chant (from neumatic notation). Square-note notation.
Published source: Oktai, Preobrazhenskii Bogadelnyi Dom, Moscow, 1914.

The Resurrectional Hypakoi in the 8 Tones. Znamenny Chant.
Translation from pre-Nikonian Slavonic and transcription of Znamenny Chant (from neumatic notation).
Square-note notation.

Катавасии общии пресвятей Богородицы, всего лета. Глас 4-й. Отверзу уста моя.
The General Katavasii for the Most Holy Theotokos, in Tone 4: I will open my mouth...
Common Znamenny Chant melodies used by the Old Believers in Oregon and many parts of Russia (an abbreviated form of the Great Znamenny melodies), set in square-note notation and round-note notation (Alto clef).

Отче наш, глас 7, знаменнаго распева.
The Lord's Prayer, sung during the Divine Liturgy. This was transcribed from manuscript sources in the Lipovan Old Believer singing tradition from Romania and Ukraine.

The Chanted Psalms in the Pre-Nikonian Russian Orthodox Church - in production

The Practice of "Stichologia" in the Pre-Nikonian Russian Church - in production

Instructions for Singing "LORD, I HAVE CRIED" according to the Russian Old Rite

A Primer of Kievan Square-note (Quadratic or Synodal) Musical Notation

The Contents of the Synodal Square-Note Obikhod and a Commentary on the Znamenny Repertoire Contained Therein

The Melodic Genres of "Znamenny Chant"

The Gamut of Vocal Techniques Used in the Pre-Nikonian Russian Orthodox Church - in production

A Brief History of the Monophonic Chant Tradition of the Russian Orthodox Church

Pitch Mutation: Instances of the raised leading tone in Znamenny Chant

Variations in the Znamenny Chant Tradition: The Theory of "Scribal Freedom"

On the Role of the Canonarch in Orthodox Worship

What are Ecclesiarchs and Paraecclesiarchs?

A Comparison of Selections of the Octoechos in the Russian Old and New Rites

Square-Note Fonts designed by Nikita Simmons

PRE-NIKONIAN POKROV SERVICE - NOTES

Significant Differences in the Manner of Worship Between the Russian Old and New Rites January, 2008

Biography and Bibliography

Curriculum vitae January, 2008

"PO USTAVU": The Rituals and Singing of the Russian Old Believers – paper presented at the ISOCM Conference at the University of Joensuu, Finland, June, 2007 January, 2008

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