Course Description

In this course, Dn. Harrison Russin opens the hymnography and music of the Triodion as a single art. Through four case studies—the Great Canon, the daily idiomela, the Akathist, and the hymns of Holy Week—you’ll learn how these hymns embed scriptural interpretation and how their music carries theological meaning. Whether you sing in a choir or simply pray these services, you’ll come away listening with new attention.

Course Curriculum

    1. About The Course

    1. Readings

    2. Presentation Slides

    3. Watch Video Lecture

    1. Readings

    2. Presentation Slides

    3. Watch Video Lecture

    1. Readings

    2. Presentation Slides

    3. Watch Video Lecture

    1. Readings

    2. Presentation Slides

    3. Watch Video Lecture

About this course

  • $125.00
  • 4 video lectures by the professor
  • 4 PowerPoint slides
  • Optional readings

About the Professor

Rev. Dn. Harrison Basil Russin, Ph.D.

Dn Harrison Russin is Assistant Professor of Liturgical Music, St Vladimir’s Seminary. Dn Harrison Russin has taught and directed liturgical music at St Vladimir’s since 2016. Having received his M.Div. from St Vladimir’s in 2013, he went on to pursue graduate study in historical musicology at Duke University, where he received his Ph.D. in 2021. Dn Harrison’s doctoral research was on musical settings of the Creed in the Mass in France and Italy in the 14th and 15th centuries, but he has published and lectured widely on Orthodox liturgical music as well. Dn Harrison also serves as director of music for Three Hierarchs Chapel at St Vladimir’s Seminary.

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