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Prostopinije > Melodies > Tone 8 kontakion > examples

The Tone 8 Kontakion Melody

Examples

See the introduction for an explanation of how to sing this melody, and the detailed analysis for its history and variants.

Kontakion of the Resurrection, Tone 8:

DL 162 listen

Kontakion of Pascha:

DL 166 listen

Kontakion of Thomas Sunday (second Paschal Sunday):

DL 176 listen

Kontakion of the Samaritan Woman (fifth Paschal Sunday):

DL 187 listen

Kontakion of the Council Fathers:

DL 199 listen

Kontakion of Pentecost:

DL 205 listen

Kontakion of All Saints (Sunday after Pentecost):

DL 212 listen

Kontakion of the Sunday of Orthodoxy (first Sunday of the Great Fast):

DL 220 listen

Kontakion of Akathistos Saturday (Saturday in the fifth week of the Great Fast; also sung on the Annunciation):

DL 228 listen

Pre-festive kontakion of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (September 13):

DL 251

Common kontakion of two or more hierarchs:

DL 374

Kontakion for the departed:

DL 412