Orthodox Music about Saint Nicholas Part of the Saint Nicholas Page honoring Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker

Orthodox Music of Saint Nicholas

Orthodox services are conducted primarily in chant and song, so the hymns of the Orthodox Church are many and varied. Songs about Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker are heard mostly on the day of his commemoration, December 6. However, parishes dedicated to Saint Nicholas sing the Apolytikion (a hymn of a certain type) of Saint Nicholas almost every Divine Liturgy, omitting the hymn only on selected major feast days of the church year.

Text of the hymns to and about Saint Nicholas

The Apolytikion

• The Apolytikion of Saint Nicholas ("Kanona pisteos") written in Greek, from Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, San Jose, California
• The Greek Apolytikion of Saint Nicholas transliterated into Latin letters.
• A literal translation into English of the Apolytikion of Saint Nicholas.
• Singable English translations of the Apolytikon of Saint Nicholas.

Other hymns

• A Western Rite Hymn of Saint Nicholas

Audio pages

• Apolytikion sung in Greek (requires Real Audio player).

Other music

• The Saint Nicholas Pages have some local copies of the words of some songs and a little more explanation.
• Russian Holiness: Orthodox Liturgical Chants - review of a CD by St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral choir, Paris. CD contains Troparion to St. Nicholas. This review contains neither music nor words of the songs. From the Musicia Russica site.

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