New Website Additions

I’m pleased to announce that a number of new scores have been added to the website. These include:

• A new setting of the Cherubic Hymn for the Presanctified Liturgy in 1st Mode Tetraphone (from Ke), inspired by Theodore Phokaeus,
• Modern English versions of Phillip Phares’ numerous adaptations of settings for “My champion general” and “When he had learned what in secret was commanded,” for the service of the Akathist Hymn and the Saturday of the Akathist,
• Various adaptations of Ioannis Arvanitis’ settings of the responses for the service of the Akathist Hymn
• Music for the sessional hymn after the 3rd Ode of the canon on the 4th Sunday of Lent,
• Multiple new musical scores for Lazarus Saturday, including complete metered canons, the Kontakion, and Megalynarion,
• Multiple new musical scores for Palm Sunday, including all of the idiomela (set to music by Phillip Phares), a complete metered canon, the 2nd Antiphon, the Kontakion, and a Communion Hymn in 1st Mode.

In addition to the above, Nicholas Roumas has translated and composed a number of dismissal hymns for various saints and major feasts. These are slowly being added on the appropriate pages, but I started with those that are found in the Triodion and Pentecostarion, and will move on to the Menaion feasts at a later date.

God willing, the next set of updates to the website will be music for Holy Week. Stay tuned.

In Christ,
Gabriel