Music and Time Annotation << Back Russian Church Chant: Present-day Practice and Chant Tradition N. Potemkina This article is dedicated to the correlations between present-day practice of church chant and Russian chant tradition in the whole. The history of this question and its meaning are considered here. The question, if modern practice of church chant corresponds with tradition, was put up not once, but many times during last 300 years – at every time when a necessity in historical generalization of the status of the tradition at that time was found out. Nowadays the main aspect of this subject is the disconnection between church chant practice and tradition in the whole, the ignorance of its main sources, such as singing books, published by the Holy Synod, the «Obikhods» printed by the Court Capella. There are several examples of present-day using old chants and compositions of various authors of various epochs, harmonizations of the church tunes among them, which аre well-known in contemporary church singing practice. Keywords: church chant, present-day practice, Russian chant tradition, harmonization of the church tunes, church compositions. Contacts: Е-mail: noramaria@mail.ru Pp. 64-71.