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 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 |
Details:
Music for the Glory at “Lord, I have cried” and the Glory at the Aposticha for Saint Philaret the Almsgiver, commemorated on December 1st, has just been uploaded to the Menaion section of the website.
-Gabriel
Link(s):December Menaion |
Music for Sts. Clement and Peter of Rome, the Hieromartyrs
Details:I have just updated the November page with music for the doxastica of Sts. Clement and Peter of Rome, the Hieromartyrs, whose memory is celebrated tomorrow.
-Gabriel
Link(s):|
New Music for the Entry of the Theotokos
Details:Several new additions to the website have been uploaded, all of them for the Nativity of the Theotokos (November 21st):
- A brief setting of the prokeimenon before the Orthros Gospel
- Complete musical settings for both canons for the feast
- Music for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Antiphons at the Divine Liturgy
- Brief and slow settings for the prokeimenon at the Divine Liturgy
- Brief and slow settings for the Alleluia at the Divine Liturgy
Finally, I have uploaded a setting of Psalm 44:13: “Virgins shall be led to the King after her; her companions shall be led to you. Alleluia” in 3rd Mode. According to a number of manuscripts, this text was an appointed Communion Hymn for the Nativity of the Theotokos. It could therefore be chanted instead of “I will take the cup of salvation.” I chose to take Petros Bereketis’ setting of “Praise the Lord from the heavens” and adapt it to the text above.
-Gabriel
Link(s):November Menaion Page |
New Music for the Month of September
Details:A number of additions to English Analogion have been uploaded, including the following:
- Music for both canons of the Nativity of the Theotokos (September 8th)
- Music for the canon of the Exaltation of the Cross (September 14th), including slow katavasies
- A setting of the “Glory” at “Lord, I have cried” and the 1st idiomelon at the Entreaty for September 14th
- An adaptation of Germanos of New Patra’s Sunday Communion Hymn in 1st Mode (a very long setting of about 6 pages)
- An adaptation of Balasios the Priest’s Sunday Communion Hymn in Plagal 4th Mode
- A setting of the Communion Hymn “I will take the cup of salvation” in 3rd Mode, inspired by Petros Bereketis
Finally, I have uploaded Ioannis Arvanitis’ setting of the Sunday Communion Hymn “Praise the Lord from the heavens,” in 1st Mode. It was composed by Dr. Arvanitis in the old notation and transcribed into the new method by me.
More to come, God willing.
-Gabriel
Link(s):September | Liturgy |
New Music for the Dormition
Details:The following additions have been uploaded for the feast of the Dormition:
- A complete musical setting of all of the stichera and idiomela for the feast, including both long and short settings of the Vespers prosomia
- Multiple long settings of the 8-mode doxastikon for the feast, by Phillip Phares
- Complete musical settings of the two canons for the Transfiguration, whose texts were metered by an anonymous contributor to the website
- A rendering of the first canon of the feast into modern English, and a musical setting thereof, by Samuel Herron
- Nicholas Roumas’ setting of the Dismissal Hymn for the feast
- Musical scores for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Antiphons, the Prokeimenon, and the Alleluia (both of them in short and fast versions)
- 2 musical settings for the Megalynarion for the Theotokos at the Divine Liturgy, one of them adapted from Ioannis Arvanitis
In addition to the above, I have also completed a slow setting of the Great Doxology in diatonic Grave Mode, which has been added to the Matins page.
Blessed feast to all!
Link(s):August Menaion Page | Matins (Orthros) Page |
New Music for the Transfiguration
Details:I’m pleased to announce that the following additions have been uploaded for the feast of the Transfiguration:
- Complete musical settings of the two canons for the Transfiguration, whose texts were metered by an anonymous contributor to the website,
- A rendering of the first canon of the feast into modern English, and a musical setting thereof, by Samuel Herron,
- Nicholas Roumas’ setting of the Dismissal Hymn for the feast,
- A setting of the Exapostilarion,
- Musical scores for the 1st and 2nd Antiphons, the Entrance, Hymn, and the kontakion of the feast,
- 3 musical settings for the Megalynarion for the Theotokos at the Divine Liturgy, one of them adapted from Ioannis Arvanitis, and
- A complete set of all the idiomela for Vespers and Orthros, composed by me
Blessed feast to all!
Link(s):August |