English Analogion is a collective effort led by Gabriel Cremeens to offer musical scores and other liturgical resources for those who utilize traditional Byzantine Chant in their celebration of the services of the Orthodox Church.
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Recent Additions and Updates:
New Music for the Sunday of the Myrrhbearers
Details:Several new additions for the Sunday of the Myrrhbearers have been added to the website, including the following:
- Music for the troparia of the entreaty at Vespers
- A musical setting of Odes 1, 3, and 9 of the Orthros canon, by Samuel Herron
- A score for the Exapostilarion
I have also made a number of revisions to the idiomela at Vespers to make them smoother and easier to chant.
Christ is risen!
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New Music for Saint James
Details:Music for the Doxasticon at the Praises for Saint James (April 30) has been uploaded to the April Menaion page.
Link(s):April Menaion |
New Music for Vespers on Palm Sunday Evening
Details:Musical scores for the Aposticha idiomela for Vespers on Palm Sunday, in the evening (before the Bridegroom Matins) have been uploaded. They can be found on the Lenten Hymnography page, at the very bottom.
I ask your prayers as we enter this Holy Week.
Link(s):Lenten Hymnography |
New Music for Friday of the Sixth Week (Vesperal Stichera for Lazarus Saturday)
Details:A complete set of music for the stichera at Vesperal Liturgy for Friday of the Sixth Week has just been uploaded. This includes musical scores for all of the idiomela for Lazarus Saturday.
God willing, scores for the Aposticha idiomela at Vespers on Palm Sunday will be uploaded tomorrow.
Link(s):Lenten Hymnography |
New music for the Annunciation and for Vespers
Details:Three new additions for the Annunciation have been uploaded:
- A setting of “Blessed is the man” in 4th Mode “Legetos,” which I was commissioned to adapt from Hieromonk Theophanes’ of Vatopaidi’s transcription and arrangement of a traditional Athonite melody. A recording of some selected verses of the Greek original can be found here. The score for my setting can be found on the Vespers page.
- Settings of the three idiomela in 1st Mode chanted at the Entreaty (Lity) of Vespers for the Annunciation.
- A draft setting of the full canon of the feast by an anonymous contributor to the site. The metered translation is being heavily revised and will be updated next year, God willing, but it is offered this year in light of the lack of other materials.
A blessed feast to all!
Link(s):Vespers | March Menaion |
New Music from Samuel Herron for the Triodion Period
Details:I’m pleased to announce that a number of scores composed by Samuel Herron for the period of the Lenten Triodion have been uploaded. These include (but are not limited to) settings for:
- The aposticha the Compunctionate Vespers services on Sunday evenings, include long sticheraric settings of the idiomela (several of which have accompanying recordings)
- The idiomela chanted at the Presanctified Liturgies on Fridays during the Great Fast,
- Half of the stichera to the martyrs in the mode of the week at “Lord, I have cried” at Friday Vespers,
- Several of the sets of the stichera of repentance in the mode of the week sung at “Lord, I have cried” at Sunday Vespers.
These scores can be found on the various Triodion sub-pages.
Link(s):Lenten Hymnography (Variable) | Lenten Octoëchos |
New Music for the Forty Martyrs of Sebastia
Details:I have added several new scores for the Forty Martyrs of Sebastia, as some of them are appointed for this weekend’s services. They can be found on the March Menaion page.
May we have their prayers!
-Gabriel
Link(s):March Menaion |
Details:
I’m pleased to announce the addition of two new resources to the site for the feast of the Meeting this weekend:
- Musical scores for all of the idiomela for the feast, using the translation of Met. Kallistos Ware, and
- A complete musical setting, including slow katavasies, of a metered translation of the canon.
Both of these resources are free. Blessed feast to all!
Link(s):February Menaion |
Music for the 1st Canon of Theophany
Details:I’m pleased to announce that an anonymous contributor to the website has offered a complete metered translation and musical setting of the 1st Canon of Theophany, which can be found on the January page.
Link(s):January Menaion |
New music for Christmas
Details:I’m pleased to announce that I’ve uploaded a number of new additions for the feast of Christmas, including settings of the following:
- The stichera at “Lord, I have cried” and the troparia at the readings at Vespers.
- The hymns after the Matins Gospel, and the stichera, Glory, and Both now at the Praises. All of these use the translations from The Festal Menaion of Met. Kallistos Ware. They are currently only in Elizabethan English; I will be working on modern English adaptations over the next day or two, God willing to be ready before Christmas.
- The Prokeimenon at Matins.
- The Glory/Both now at “Lord, I have cried” at Vespers, translated afresh by Nicholas Roumas with the metrical structure of the original Greek in mind. (There is a setting by both Nicholas Roumas and myself.)
- The complete metered 1st Canon of the feast, with brief and slow Katavasies, by an anonymous contributor to the website.
- The 1st and 2nd Antiphons at the Divine Liturgy, with verses.
- A slow setting of the Megalynarion at the Divine Liturgy by Fr. John (Igor) Zirojevic.
- 3 versions of the Communion Hymn for the feast.
These are in addition to the other musical offerings already provided, which have been re-uploaded and better organized.
I ask your prayers that my family and I remain healthy for the Christmas services.
-Gabriel
Link(s):December Menaion |