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Byzantium Publications provides free sheet music and educational information
for use in Orthodox Christian churches, primarily churches that use both Greek
and English in their services. The main goal of the translations is to offer
ecclesiastical music English put in common staff notation and Byzantine notation
that is accurately translated, poetic, following the rules of Byzantine Chant,
and can alternate easily with the traditional Greek versions.
The music
in English available on this site is written primarily by Nancy Chalker Takis,
a hierarchically-blessed chanter of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
and holder of the Patriarch Athenagoras medal for
notable service to her metropolis and the St. Romanos
medallion for service to the Archdiocese. She has been given approval to
translate Church hymns from three consecutive hierarchs of the Metropolis
(formerly Diocese) of