St. Romanos the Melodist Society

When, indeed, the Holy Spirit saw that the human race was guided only with difficulty toward virtue, what did He do? The delight of melody He mingled with the doctrines so that by the pleasantness and softness of the sound heard we might receive without perceiving it the benefit of the words.

~ St. Basil the Great, Exegetic Homilies, Homily 10

Welcome to the St. Romanos the Melodist Society!

The St. Romanos the Melodist Society produces and publishes English language music of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The Society produces music in printed and recorded formats, and conducts seminars and workshops on the proper performance of that music. The Society is a sodality of Holy Apostles Orthodox Church, an English mission parish currently worshipping in Beltsville, Maryland.

09/01/10	Introduction - Visit the new Introduction page. It includes useful information about church music and church singing, among other things. The Introduction is taken from the Vespers volume of A Church Singer's Companion.
08/26/10	Liturgy - Streletskaya Cherubic Hymn revised
08/26/10	Liturgy - New Znamenny Chant Trisagion available
08/14/10	Liturgy - Have a look at the new Liturgy page.
08/13/10	Vespers - Psalm Verses to Lord, I Have Cried fixed
08/02/10	Vespers - Now you can hear a recording of Psalm 33.
08/01/10	Vespers - All of the music from the revised Vespers volume of A Church Singer's Companion, published in book form in 2003, is now available on the Vespers page.
06/09/10	Matins, Vespers - Lots of new music has been posted in the last month. In the future, all new additions will be noted here under Updates.
05/13/10	Matins - On the feast of the Ascension of our Lord, this website is being revived with the posting of the 1st Tone Resurrectional Irmoi. Really this time.
10/14/08	Vespers - On the feast day of St. Romanos, this website is being restarted, with the posting of the first ten verses of Psalm 33, composed by Fr. George Johnson.