That's every kind of sung worship in the Orthodox Church, so far as I know. I'm not sure what the "etc." would refer to. I suppose under Doxastica you could include Theotokia Doxastica, and under Exaposteilaria you could include Photogogika (but that's getting into minutiae).Species of psalmody are the following : Anoixantaria, Kekragaria, Doxastika, Stichera, Dochai, Troparia, Apolytikia, Anastasima, Kathismata, Hypakoai, Antiphona, Polyeleoi, Pasapnoaria, Canons, Odæ, Heirmoi, Katabasiæ, Kontakia, Oikoi, Megalynaria, Exaposteilaria, Aenoi, Prosomœa, Idiomela, Heothina, Doxologies, Asmatica, Mathemata, Typika, Makarismoi, Eisodika, Trishagia, Alleluaria, Cheroubika, Koinonika, Calophonic Heirmoi, etc.
It's a goal of mine to post at least one example of everything on that list.
This recording is of "Lord I have cried," in Greek at the Vespers of the feast of the Placing of the Belt of the Theotokos, chanted by the monks of Vatopedi Monastery on Mt. Athos. The recording is by a pilgrim, so the quality isn't professional, but it does capture a little bit what it's like to be there (the churches are kept dark).
- "Lord I have cried" is the first half of the kekregaria, the other half is the "Let my prayer arise"
- The monks are chanting in the First Tone.
- Instead of the Lord I have cried we normally hear in Vespers, they're singing the Old Sticheraric (more on that later) version by Iakovos Protopsaltis. That's why instead of a minute and a half, it takes six minutes to sing.
- They're singing the longer setting because this is during an all-night vigil.
- The melody cadences, as sticheraric first tone does, on γα (more-or-less an F) and ζω (more-or-less a B) for medial cadences and Πα (more or less a D) for complete cadences.
- At the beginning of the recording, one of the chanters asks the Proestos (either the abbot or a bishop) for permission to start by singing "Command, holy master: First Tone" in the tone and pitch of the rest of the hymn.
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