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Summary Volume.  Russian sacred music of XI - XX cc.

Extract of volumes 1-4, 7-9.
Compiled by V.Kopylova.

1st Volume.  St. Sophia Cathedral of Kiev
Songs celebrating Kievan Saints – Baptists of Russia.

Troparions, irmoses and stikhiras to Princess and Saint Olga, Prince and Saint Vladimir, Princes and Saints Boris and Gleb, Saints Feodosiy and Antoniy of Pechora. 
Deciphered by A.Ratkova, arranged “na podoben” by V.Kopylova according to manuscripts of XI - XVIII cc.

2nd Volume. St. Sophia Cathedral of Novgorod
Liturgy of St. John Chrisostom and Vespers, XVI-XVII cc.

Songs celebrating Novgorod's Saints and relics.
Liturgy and Vespers from the St.Sophia Cathedral of Novgorod (znamenny chant).
Deciphered by G.Malinina and A.Ratkova.

3rd Volume.  The Assumption Cathedral Of Moscow Kremlin.
Music by XVI - early XVIII c. composers.

 a) Ancient Russian rospevs (chants): znamenny, demestvenny, putevoj: songs celebrating Moscow Saints by Feodor Christianin (anthems), Isajah Lukoshko (from "Oktoikh"), Markel Bezborody (from "The Psalter"), Tsar Ivan IV The Terrible.
b) Strochny and demestvenny polyphonies: songs celebrating Saints from Rostov's and Vladimiro-Suzdalsky principalities.
Polyphony edited by L.Kondrashin.
c) Vespers (demestvenny) and Liturgy (strochny).
Polyphony edited by V.Kopylova.

4th Volume.  New Jerusalem Monastery
Ancient Russian 'kanty' (late XVII c.)

German Voskresensky, Epiphany Slovinetsky, anonymous authors.

5th Volume.  Moscow vocal baroque of XVII – early XVIII c.

Nikolay Diletsky, Simeon Pekalitsky, Stephan Belayev, Vassiliy Titov: Partesny choruses, "Divine Services".
Polyphony edited by V.Protopopov.

6th Volume. East-Slavonic Choral Baroque of XVII - XVIII cc.
Ukraine, Belorussia, Russia - anonymous works

a) Monastery tradition of partesny singing: Christmas Canon from Kirilo-Belozersky monastery, Epiphany Canon from Solovetsky monastery; partesny harmonisations of znamenny chant from Iosfo-Volokolamsky monastery. 
Polyphony edited by T.Vladyshevskaya, P.Zabolotnaya, V.Kopylova.
b) Partesny adoptions of znamenny chant (for 4, 8 and 12 voices).
Polyphony edited by T.Vladyshevskaya, P.Zabolotnaya, V.Kopylova.
c) Motets of XVII - XVIII cc.
Polyphony edited by N.Gerasimova-Persidskaya.
d) Ukrainian partesny concerts.
Polyphony edited by N.Gerasimova-Persidskaya.

7th Volume. East-Slavonic Choral Baroque of XVII - XVIII cc.
Ukraine, Belorussia, Russia - authors' works.

8th Volume. Eighteenth Century Imperial St.Petersburg
Between Baroque And Classicism.

a) Dmitry Bortniansky. Selected sacred concerts (for one and two choirs).
b) Maxim Berezovsky, Evstegney Fomin, Sergey Degtiarev, Artemiy Vedel, A. Davydov: Sacred concerts and motets.
Compiled by T.Chernysheva, V.Kopylova.

9th Volume. "Alexandro-Nevsky Lavra"
The St.Petersburg school of vocal composition: XIX – XX cc.

“Obikhod” of the Alexandro-Nevsky Lavra (Minster): Lvov, Bakhmetev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Arkhangelsky, Alexander Chesnokov.
Compiled by N.Kuznetsova.

10th Volume. "Troitse-Sergijeva Lavra"
The Moscow school of vocal composition: XIX - XX cc.

“Obikhod” of the Troitse-Sergijeva Lavra (Minster): Kastalsky, Grechaninov, Yaichkov, archimandrite Matthew (Mormyl). Pavel Chesnokov: Liturgy of St. John Chrisostom (op. 10), concerts for soloists and choir (op. 40, op. 2).
Compiled by V.Kopylova.

11th Volume. "Swiatki". Christmas songs of XVI - XX cc.

Christmas and Epiphany Services (znamenny chant). Christmas in ikons and music. Christmas songs: partesny chant, monastery tradition of XVII-XVIII c., choral  baroque and classicism, Moscow school of composition of early XX c.(Kastalsky, Nikolsky, Khmelev, Tretiakov, Kosolanov, Melnikov).
"Vertep"  and theatrical performances.
Compiled by T.Vladyshevskaya.

12th Volume. Byzantium and Ancient Russia.
Between I and II milleniums.

Extras from several researches on deciphering byzantium and early "bespometny" notations.
Participants: E.Velesh, M.Velimirovich, T.Vladyshevskaya, K.Levi, V.Metallov, A.Preobrazhensky, A.Ratkova, S.Smolensky, M.Shkolnik, S.Floros, I.Shekhivtsova.Compiled by V.Kopylova Introductory article "On problems of deciphering znamenny chant" by T.Vladyshevskaya.

13th Volume. Between II and III millenniums.
Contemporary sacred music.

b) Contemporary Service: St.Petersburg, Moscow.
Compiled by N.Kuznetsova, O.Sudakova.
a) Concert works based on orthodox liturgical texts: Sviridov, Denisov, Shnitke, Gubaidulina.
Compiled by V.Kholopova.