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Traditional Eastern Orthodox Chant Documentation Project
HYMNOGRAPHY: 3) Hymns of the Heirmologic Genre

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Heirmoi
Festal Katavasii composed in the Sticheraric genre
Festal Refrains on the 9th Ode
Festal "Zadostoiniki" composed in the Sticheraric genre
Simplified Heirmoi and Katavasia melodies
Eastern Slavic Repertoires
GROUP 1: Old Znamenny Chant – Neumatic Sources
 SOURCES (printed & manuscript)
1a. Znamenny chants from the older "bezpometnye" manuscripts
          
1b. Znamenny chants from the "naonnye" manuscripts
          
1c. Znamenny chants from the newer "narechnye" manuscripts          
GROUP 2: New Znamenny Chant – Notated Sources
 SOURCES (printed & manuscript)
2a. Square-note chant books
          
2b. Round notes (later and contemporary settings)          
2c. Neumatic chant manuscripts modified to accommodate the reformed texts
         
GROUP 3: Non-Znamenny Chant Systems
SOURCES (printed & manuscript)
3a. Kievan Chant
         
3b. Russian Bulgarian Chant          
3c. Russian Greek Chant          
[3d. Demestvenny Chant]          
[3e. Put' Chant]          
GROUP 4: Southwestern Russian Chant Sources
 SOURCES (printed & manuscript)
4a. Carpatho-Rusyn "Prostopinije" Chant
         
4b. Galician "Samoilka/Samolivka" Chant          
4c. Bukovina Chant
         
4d. Local Kievan/Central-Ukrainian Chants          
GROUP 5: Regional Monastery & Cathedral Chants
 SOURCES (printed & manuscript)
5A. Northern Sub-Group          
   5A-a. Valaam Monastery melodies          
   5A-b. Solovetskii Monastery melodies          
   5A-c. Moscow Uspenskii Sobor melodies          
   5A-d. Krasnogorsk Monastery melodies          
   5A-e. Prophet Elias Skete (Mt. Athos) melodies          
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          
5C. 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          
   5D-b. Common ("Obikhod") Chant