The OCA uses several different chant traditions in any Divine Liturgy:
Obikhod (\\"Common\\" chant) is the standard of parishes with able choirs. Kievan is also used with parishes that have choirs developing liturgical experience. These chants are used for the stikhera in the services and ikos in canons.
Znamenny is usually used for the prokemenon and alleluia verses.
Other forms are used for special troparia - Moscow, \'imperial\' and lots of special composed hymns from 19th century Russia. Most of the 19th century music are variations on the flexibility of the Znamenny tradition, which has evolved, devolved, and changed very much over the last thousand years of Christianity in Eastern Europe.
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