Type of Hymn Incipit(s) Mode Byzantine Notation Staff Notation Recording Text Language Register Composer
BEGINNING OF VESPERS
For the Beginning of a Vigil “I will enter into your house” (Psalm 5:6b) Pl. 1st Sign up or Login to Download Sign up or Login to Download Nicholas Roumas Modern English Gabriel Cremeens
For the Beginning of a Vigil "O come, let us worship" (Psalm 94:6) Pl. 4th Sign up or Login to Download Modern English Gabriel Cremeens
Brief Anoixantaria "When you open your hand" (Psalm 103:30-37) Pl. 4th Sign up or Login to Download Nicholas Roumas Modern English Gabriel Cremeens
"BLESSED IS THE MAN"
Psalms 1-3
Brief setting, adapted from Hieromonk Theophanes of Vatopaidi "Blessed is the man" 4th "Legetos" Sign up or Login to Download Holy Transfiguration Monastery Elizabethan English Gabriel Cremeens
"LORD, I HAVE CRIED"
Psalm 140:1-2
Brief (Heirmologic) Settings, in all 8 modes "Lord, I have cried to You; hear me" Multiple Sign up or Login to Download St. Athanasius Academy of Orthodox Theology Modern English Gabriel Cremeens
Very Long (Slow Sticheraric) Settings, in all 8 modes "Lord, I have cried to unto Thee; hearken unto me" Multiple Sign up or Login to Download Holy Transfiguration Monastery Elizabethan English Phillip Phares
STICHOLOGIES
Verses of Psalms 140, 141, and 129
Brief Stichologies in All Modes "Set a watch, O Lord"
"I cried to the Lord"
"Out of the depths"
Multiple Sign up or Login to Download St. Athanasius Academy of Orthodox Theology Modern English Gabriel Cremeens
THE EVENING HYMN
"O Gladsome Light"
Original composition "O Gladsome Light" 2nd Sign up or Login to Download Nicholas Roumas Modern English Gabriel Cremeens
Adapted from Demosthenes Paikopoulos "O Joyous Light" Grave Sign up or Login to Download Holy Transfiguration Monastery Elizabethan English Gabriel Cremeens
PROKEIMENA
Prokeimena for the Days of the Week Multiple Sign up or Login to Download Nicholas Roumas Modern English Gabriel Cremeens
Prokeimena for the Days of the Week Multiple Sign up or Login to Download St. Athanasius Academy of Orthodox Theology Modern English Gabriel Cremeens
ENTREATY (LITY)
Responses at the Lity "Lord, have mercy."
"Amen."
"And with your spirit."
"To You, O Lord."
Pl. 1st Sign up or Login to Download Modern English Gabriel Cremeens
BREAKING OF BREAD
Artoklasia
Brief Theotokion "O Theotokos and Virgin" Pl. 1st Sign up or Login to Download Nicholas Roumas Modern English Gabriel Cremeens
Long Theotokion "O Virgin Theotokos" Pl. 1st Sign up or Login to Download Fr. Seraphim (Dedes) Modern English Samuel Herron
Very Long Theotokion (adapted from the 8-mode setting of Petros Bereketis) "O Theotokos and Virgin" Multiple Sign up or Login to Download Elizabethan English Phillip Phares
Very Long Theotokion, abbreviated (based on the 8-mode setting of Petros Bereketis) "O Theotokos and Virgin" Multiple Sign up or Login to Download Elizabethan English Phillip Phares
Psalm 33:11 "The rich have turned poor" Grave Sign up or Login to Download Nicholas Roumas Modern English Gabriel Cremeens
Psalm 33:11 "The rich have turned poor" Pl. 1st Sign up or Login to Download Nicholas Roumas Modern English Gabriel Cremeens