New Music for the Entry of the Theotokos

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