Purpose:
The PSALM Online Liturgical Music Resource will make available to its members an extensive collection of Orthodox liturgical music in English. All the material in the library will conform to the highest possible musical standards, as well as the liturgical and aesthetics norms of Orthodox worship. By contributing to and drawing upon this resource, Orthodox church musicians will enrich the liturgical life of their respective communities.

The following tasks have been completed or are nearly completed:

Posting of settings*

Music Index Database and Search Engine to interface with end user

Manual for data entry**

Manual for using Finale to prepare Orthodox Liturgical Music

Glossary of copyright and music index terms

Finale templates for setting Orthodox liturgical music

Review Criteria for submissions

Permission forms for submissions and translations

Statement of policy on translations

Frequently Asked Questions

The following tasks will be on-going:

Accumulation? of musical settings

Review of submissions

Search for qualified Reviewers

Search for and training of data entry personnel

TEAM MEMBERS:

Vladimir Morosan, PSALM President, Doctor of Musical Arts (Choral Music and Musicology), has been active as a music editor since he founded Holy Note Press in 1979. Under the auspices of grants from the Fulbright Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, he has systematically gathered one of the largest reference collections of Russian Orthodox music outside of Russia. Since 1987, he has been the President of Musica Russica, a publishing house dedicated exclusively to the publication and dissemination of Orthodox and Russian choral music.

Michael Farrow, Choir Director in Antiochian, Greek, and Carpathian Orthodox Churches since 1961 Composer and arranger of Orthodox hymns Author, Psalms of the Orthodox Liturgy (1997) Vice-Chairman, Department of Sacred Music, Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese.