The Protheoria of the Typikon of the Great Church of Christ, edited by the Protopsaltes Georgios Biolakes
This is a translation of the Protheoria found in the Typikon edited by the Protopsaltes of the Great Church, Georgios Biolakes and published in 1888. I know of no other English translation of this text. This is the basic introduction to the elements which make up the services of the Ninth Hour, Vespers, Midnight, and Orthros services, as well as the variable elements in the daily and Sunday Divine Liturgy. This is the order of service still used by the Churches of the Œcumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Greece and Bulgaria; this order of service has also influenced the practice in the Churches of Romania and Serbia.
Table of Contents
- The Ninth Hour and the Vespers
- The Mesonyktikon and the Orthros
- The Divine Liturgy
- The Daily Diataxis of Divine Service
- The Sunday Diataxis of Divine Service
News and Events
- Call for Papers: Meeting of the International Musicological Society Study Group “Cantus Planus” in 2009.
- Milos Velimirovic, the Serbian-born, eminent American Byzantine Musicologist Fell Asleep in the Lord on 19 April 2008, in Bridgewater, Virginia.→
- Athens, Greece: A segment of the K. A. Psachos Music Library Collection is now online.→
About the author
The Rev. Dr. Konstantinos Terzopoulos is a Greek Orthodox Priest, Theologian and Byzantine musicologist. He is an international speaker, researcher and publisher on Byzantine musicology, hymnology and typikon [CV]. He is also the Founder and President of Psaltiki, Inc., a nonprofit organization for the advancement of the Psaltic Art and Byzantine Chant in America.
psaltiki, inc.
psaltiki, inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) existing to promote the advancement of the Hellenic Psaltic Art:
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