Updates

New Music Update

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The following additions have been uploaded:

• Settings for the doxastica at Vespers for the Sunday of All Saints
• 2 settings for the Communion Hymn for the Sunday of All Saints (including one new setting in 1st Mode)
• Music for all of the idiomela for the Sunday of All Saints of North America
• Music for the doxasticon at the aposticha for Saint Kyriake (July 7th)

In addition, the doxasticon for the Synaxis of the 12 Apostles that is to be chanted at the Aposticha at this Saturday’s Vespers is from the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. It is the doxasticon of the Praises, and can therefore be found on under June 29th.

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New Music for Pentecost

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I’ve just added a number of scores for the feast of Pentecost, including:

• A PDF with many different musical settings of the hymn “O Heavenly King,” by Phillip Phares,
• A complete metered text and score for the 1st canon of the feast, in Grave Mode,
• Musical settings for many of the hymns chanted at the Divine Liturgy, including two different versions of the Megalynarion.

I may add several more resources as time allows.  In the meantime, however, it should be noted that, on Pentecost, the Cherubic Hymn and Anaphora are traditionally chanted in Grave Mode.  To that end, I have uploaded two new settings of the Cherubic Hymn in that mode, which are a little shorter and hopefully will prove useful to some.  For the Anaphora, I have uploaded a setting that I commissioned from Dr. Ioannis Arvanitis; both it and the Cherubic Hymns can be found on the Liturgy page.

Finally, while I hope to be able to add some additional scores for Saturday of Souls, I would like to point out that a number of the hymns used on the Saturday before Pentecost are also used during Great Lent, and what I currently have available for that day can be found on the Lenten Hymnography (Variable) page.

A blessed feast to all!

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Pentecostarion | Liturgy | Lenten Hymnography (Variable) |

New Music for the Ascension

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I’m pleased to announce several new additions to the Pentecostarion list for the feast of the Ascension.  They include:

• Settings of all the Vespers idiomela, by Samuel Herron
• Complete musical settings of both canons
• 4 different settings of the megalynarion for the Divine Liturgy (3 of them adaptations from Ioannis Arvanitis)

All of these scores can be found on the Pentecostarion page.

Blessed feast!

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Pentecostarion page |

New Music for Thomas Sunday

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I’m pleased to announce that I’ve just finished uploading several new additions for Thomas Sunday. These include:

• Settings of all the idiomela at Vespers and Matins, including the Entreaty.
• A complete metered translation and musical setting of the Canon of Thomas Sunday. The translation is by Thomas Carroll, and the setting an adaptation by Samuel Herron based on the classical melodies.
• Several settings of the slow Megalynarion for the Divine Liturgy, including two versions adapted from Ioannis Arvanitis.

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New Music and Updated Music for Holy Week

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A few updates have been made to the Holy Week page. The most notable of these is Fr. Jeremy Troy’s Herculean achievement of setting all of the Lamentations troparia to music using the well-known translation of Holy Transfiguration Monastery. I’ve also uploaded a few scores, such as the Prokeimena at the Prophecies at Vesperal Liturgy on Holy Thursday morning, and made some adjustments to scores from last year, such as my setting of the Hymn of Kassiani. God willing, there will be a few additional scores added this week as time permits.

Additionally: music for the entire Canon of Holy Unction is available, but it is on the Sacraments page, not the Holy week page.

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Holy Week | Sacraments |

Additional Music for Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday

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I’ve just added a few new scores for Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday:

• Slow and fast settings of the Katavasies of Lazarus Saturday, using the translations of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
• A complete setting of the Canon of Palm Sunday in modern English, arranged by Samuel Herron
• A score for “Holy is the Lord our God,” with a final cadence, as chanted on both of those days

More music for Holy Week coming soon, God willing.

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Lenten Hymnography (Variable) Page |

Music for Thursday of the Great Canon

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While it’s certainly an 11th-hour addition, I’ve composed music for the hymns at the Aposticha of the Praises for Thursday of the Great Canon and added it to the “Lenten Hymnography (Variable)” page.  Additionally, I’ve composed music for the Hymns to the Trinity and Hymn of Light in 4th Mode for tomorrow morning’s Matins service as well.  You can find that music here; I’ve not uploaded it to the Lenten Matins page yet because the endings for the troparia are specifically for Thursday mornings.  Once I’ve added the endings for all the days, the file will be updated and added on the proper page.

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Aposticha of the Praises - Thursday of the Great Canon |

New Website Additions

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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

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New Music for Saint Milburga

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I’m pleased to share a commission that I recently completed at the request of Fr. Panteleïmon Maxfield, parish priest of the Church of the 318 Holy Fathers of the 1st Ecumenical Council in Shrewsbury, UK. At the link below, you can find music for many of the idiomela for Saint Milburga, who is commemorated on February 23rd. I greatly enjoyed working on these original hymnographic texts (written by Fr. David Panagiotis Somalis) and learning about Saint Milburga.

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Doxastica and Idiomela for Saint Milburga |