Melodies for Troparia
The prostopinije tradition provides eight different melodies for singing troparia, one in each tone. These melodies are also used for singing sessional hymns.
The first column of the following table provides a link to the description of the melody and how to sing it, while the last column will take you to a set of notated examples.
| Start of the melody | Phrases | Sunday troparion in each tone | More examples, with recordings | |
| Tone 1 |
|
(A B) E F | “The stone was sealed by the Jews” | examples |
| Tone 2 |  |
(A) | “When you descended to death, O Immortal Life” | examples |
| Tone 3 |  |
(A) F | “Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad” | examples |
| Tone 4 |  |
(A B) F | “The joyful message of the resurrection” | examples |
| Tone 5 |  |
(A) A' | “O faithful, let us praise and adore the Word” | examples |
| Tone 6 |  |
(A B) F | “Angelic powers appeared at your tomb” | examples |
| Tone 7 |  |
I (A B) F | “You have destroyed death by your cross” | examples |
| Tone 8 |  |
(A B) | “You descended from on high, O merciful One” | examples |
When "Glory... now and ever" with troparia, is it sung using the troparion melody itself. Music can be found in the Cantor Verses book, under "Resurrection Tone."
Special melodies (podobny)
Most of our special melodies are for stichera, there there are also special troparion-style melodies that are used with sessional hymns at Matins, and occasionally for other hymns as well. When used to sing these hymns, our kontakion melodies are considered to be troparion podobny, and so they are listed here under their tones and Slavonic names.
| Tone | Melody | Start of sticheron melody | Phrases |
| Tone 3 | Voskresl jesi (You arose from the grave) |
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(A) A' |
| Tone 4 | Spas i izbavitel moj |
 |
(A B) |
| Tone 5 | Radujsja dvere Hospodňa (Rejoice, impassable gateway of the Lord) |
(A) A' | |
| Tone 6 | Živonačalnoju dlaniju (Christ our God, the Life-giver) |
 |
(A) A' |
| Tridneven |
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| Tone 8 | Voskres iz hroba (You arose from the grave) |
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(A B) |