PA Photos and Documents

This varied collection of publications with liturgical music used in Eastern Christian traditions outside of the prostopinije / plain chant collection of the Byzantine Ruthenian practice. Publications are used by parishes in other ethnic traditions or by Byzantine Catholic choirs as part of their liturgy or social performances. The Byzantine Catholic churches exist in areas in contact with Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox, Slovak and Hungarian Catholic. These frequently allowed contact and import of music from these other traditions. The Russian Orthodox tradition also brought in contact and examples for western SATB choral arrangement traditions. In the United States the Byzantine Catholic Churches had a robust choir tradition incorporating these various styles in both their liturgical services and other public performances. They also expanded a collection of choir versions of prostopinije melodies that are included in the prostopinije collection. When the United States Byzantine Catholic Churches were in conflict with Roman Catholic authorities over the use of married clergy, many parishes left for other Eastern Orthodox traditions primarily the ACROD, ROCOR and OCA jurisdictions. These other traditions likewise expanded the liturgical usage of similar musical traditions that are included here.