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New Music for the Month of August
Details:I have just uploaded several new scores to the August Menaion page. These include:
- August 16: Music for the Entreaty (Lity) for Saint Joseph the Hesychast. The complete text of his service, translated and metered by the monks of Panagia Vlachernon Monastery in Williston, FL, can be found here.
- August 24: Music for the the idiomelon after the Orthros Gospel and the Doxasticon of the Praises for Saint Cosmas of Aetolia. I have also included an alternate Dismissal Hymn to the saint that I translated and metered.
- August 31: Music for the two doxastica for the Deposition of the Sash of the Theotokos.
More to come, God willing – particularly for Saint Cosmas of Aetolia, whose feast day falls on a Sunday this year.
Link(s):August Menaion |
New Music for Saint Panteleimon
Details:Musical scores for the following hymns for the feast of Saint Panteleimon have been uploaded:
- The “Glory” at “Lord, I have cried,” in Plagal 2nd Mode (multiple settings)
- The first idiomelon at the Entreaty, in 1st Mode
- The “Glory” at the Aposticha, in Plagal 4th Mode
They can all be found on the July Menaion page.
In addition, three settings of the Communion Hymn “In everlasting remembrance” – two in 4th Mode “agia,” and one in Plagal 2nd Mode – have been uploaded to the Divine Liturgy page.
Link(s):July Menaion | Divine Liturgy |
A Sacrifice of Praise, Vol. I: First Mode now available!
Details:Christ is risen!
Over the past six years, I have been working on a series of books with both the text and musical scores for the Divine Liturgy, with facing pages in English and Greek. I am pleased to announce that A Sacrifice of Praise, Vol. I: First Mode – the first installment in this series – has just been published by Cappella Romana in a beautiful hardbound leatherette volume. You can read more about it (and order it) here. God willing, volumes in the other modes – and editions in Western staff notation as well – will be published over the next several years.
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A Sacrifice of Praise |
Canon of Pascha: Modern English Edition
Details:I’m pleased to announce a new addition to the website: a modern English edition of the Canon of Pascha, adapted from the Elizabethan English version found in The Mystic Pascha. In preparing this version for use at my parish, I also metered the megalynaria verses at the 9th Ode.
Christ is risen!
Link(s):Pentecostarion |
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 |