A free score of the Pentecost apolytikion “Blessed Are You, O Christ Our God” (Εὐλογητὸς εἶ Χριστὲ ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν) in a beautiful Byzantine Polyphony arrangement by Theodore Papakonstantinou.
A fundamental error in choral arranging is treating all Byzantine chant as a blank canvas. Traditionalists claim Western harmony destroys the chant, while modernists force it everywhere. Both are structurally wrong. Byzantine Music is not exclusively modal. When the Mode dictates functional gravity, execute Western harmony without apology.
A definitive example of applied Byzantine Polyphony, free for you to download and implement. This is the sound of the Dorian Mode once the “vertical starvation” of the modern tradition is removed.
