Short History of the Typikon at the Psaltic Musings Blog

Read a short history of the Typikon from the Psaltic Musings Blog.

Fr. Constantine Terss, the author of the blog, gives a short history of the Typikon and its Palestinian and Constantinopolitan influences.

Online Version of the Typikon at typikon.gr

The site typikon.gr has an online version of the Typikon.

The author of the site has compiled a Typikon for parish use "based on the Typikon of Violakis and other, newer and older, Typika" as is stated on the site.

Site content is in Greek.

Click here to view the Typikon.

A note about online resources such as typikon.gr:

While the efforts of such sites as typikon.gr, are greatly appreciated and much needed, the accuracy of these sites cannot be verified. These sites should be used as aids to a better understanding of the Typikon, and not be substituted for the official editions of the Typikon. In no way does my listing of such sites endorse the validity of the content on them.

Resources at analogion.net

Resources on the Typikon at analogion.net

The site analogion.net has some great resources on the Typikon of the Great Church in a section of its website typikon.analogion.net. The author of the website, has compiled a companion to the Typikon entitled " Τυπικόν Ὄρθρου Ἐνοριῶν" (Typikon for Parish Orthros), and is available for download as a pdf.

The site content is in Greek.

In general this website has a wealth of information divided into several sections. One of the sections of note is on Byzantine Music, where you can download audio recordings, and pdf's of compositions in Byzantine Musical Notation. Surely more posts to come on this site.

Don't confuse this site with analogion.com which is a completely different site with similar but much more focused content on Byzantine Music. More to come about analogion.com.

Short Biography of Georgios Violakis

Georgios Violakis, (c. 1820-1911), Archon Protopsaltis of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, together with two Committees of the Holy and Sacred Synod, were responsible for publishing the Typikon in 1888 that came to bear his name. The detailed "Protheoria of the Typikon" that can be found in the introductory pages of the 1888 edition was compiled by Violakis himself.

Read a short biography of Georgios Violakis from the official website of the Ecumenical Patriarchate www.ec-patr.org

Also of note is a short introduction on the Tradition of Byzantine Music at the Ecumenical Patriarchate by Fr. Seraphim Farasoglou.

The links above are also available in Greek:
Ἄρχοντες Προτοψάλται τοῦ Οἰκουμενικοῦ Πατριαρχείου
Βίος τοῦ Γεωργίου Βιολάκη
Εἰσαγωγή τοῦ π. Σεραφείμ Φαράσογλου

For a simple definition of Protopsaltis in English see the orthdoxwiki.org page on "cantor".

Read an article on the History of the Typikon

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America's award-winning website www.goarch.org, includes an article by Fr. Alkiviadis Calivas (Prof. of Liturgics, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology) on "The Origins of Pascha and Great Week". In the article Fr. Calivas has an excellent short history of the Typikon, including the 19th century revisions. Scroll down about half-way on the page to "The Liturgical Text According to Present Usage" for the relevant part of the article. From what I can gather this is the basis of both wikipedia's and orthodoxwiki's articles on the Typikon.