SUGGESTION: Menaion, Octoechoes et. al.

MJ. Smith

There doesn't appear to be any forward materials to explain how to interpret the text e.g.

• twice - repeating from where?
• glory be ,,, expansion
• both now ... expansion
• similar to ... where to find
• tone 8 ... where to find

It would be useful for Logos to develop a few pages explaining to the non-Orthodox how to fill in the detail. In one's own tradition, it seems so obvious but to an outsider it can be very difficult to sort out initially.

Including a glossary could also help.

Gabe Martini (Faithlife)

That's understandable. There's a lot of "insider lingo" in these resources, and our Content Production department's goals are typically to copy exactly as the resource exists in print.

I'd be happy to provide supplemental materials or links here (or elsewhere), however; e.g.:

"Glory be..." is a call to intone "Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit." 

"Both now..." is a call to intone "...both now and always, and unto the ages of ages, Amen."

"Tone 8" is a call to chant that hymn in the eighth tone (plagal of the fourth). For that, you have to know Byzantine chant and how the tones work, which is assumed by the publishers of these books (as they're often only used by trained psaltes or cantors).

"Similar to" is again a reference to the eight tones, a call to chant the verse or hymn in the same fashion as the hymn it references (you'd again have to know how to chant the hymn to begin with! [;)])

"Twice" is contextual, but if you have specific questions, I can try to help. [:)]