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Menaion

General Menaion

• General Troparion for a Hierarch (Plain and harmonized versions)

• General Troparion for an Apostle

September 08 - Nativity of the Theotokos

• Sessional Hymns (Tone 4) (Joseph was Amazed)

• Exapostilarion (Hearken, ye women)

• Praises  (Tone 1) (O Marvelous Wonder)

September 14 - Elevation of the Cross

• Lord I Call 1 (Tone 6) (Having set all our hope)

• Lord I Call 2

• Lord I Call 3

• Lord I Call - Glory...Now and Ever... (Tone 2)

• Aposticha 1 (Tone 5) (Rejoice, O Life Bearing Cross)

• Aposticha 2

• Aposticha 3

• Troparion (Tone 1) (Fr. Roman's setting)

• Exapostilarion

• Before Thy Cross (2-part based on James C. Meena's setting)

September 26 - St. John the Theologian

• Troparion (Tone 2)

• Kontakion (Tone 2)

September 28 - Ellwood City Icon of the Mother of God

• Verses for the Ellwood City Icon (Tone 8) (O most glorious wonder)

• Exapostilarion (Hearken, ye women)

October 1 - Protection of the Mother of God

• Lord I Call Verse 1 (Tone 1) (O Marvelous Wonder)

• Verse 2

• Verse 3

• Lord I Call Verse 4 (Tone 4) (As one valiant among martyrs) (4-part)

• Verse 5

• Verse 6

• Lord I Call Verse 4 (Tone 4) (As one valiant among martyrs) (2-part)

• Verse 5

• Verse 6

• Troparion (Tone 4) (Yaichkov)

  • Kontakion (Tone 3) 4-part; with Ikos

• 2-part byzantine (Today the Virgin)

• Exapostilarion (Hymn of Light) (Listen, O Women)

October 18 - Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke

• Lord I Call Verse 1 (Tone 8) (What shall we call you) 

• Verse 2

• Verse 3

• Verse 4

• Verse 5

• Verse 6

October 26 - Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica

• Praises Verse 1 (Tone 4) (As one valiant among the martyrs) 

• Verse 2

• Verse 3

November 8 - Archangel Michael and all Bodiless Hosts

• Lord I Call Verse 1 (Tone 4) (As one valiant among the martyrs) 

• Verse 2

• Verse 3

• Praises Verse 1 (Tone 1) (Joy of the Heavenly Hosts)

• Verse 2

• Verse 3

• Communion Hymn

November 9 - St. Nektarios of Aegina

• Lord I Call Verse 1 (Tone 1) (O Marvelous Wonder)

• Verse 2

• Verse 3 

November 21 - Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple

• Lord I Call Verse 1 (Tone 1) (O Marvelous Wonder)

• Verse 2

• Verse 3

• Verse 4 (Tone 4) (As one valiant among the martyrs)

• Verse 5

• Verse 6

• Aposticha Verse 1  (Tone 5) (Rejoice, O Life Bearing Cross)

• Verse 2

• Verse 3

• Troparion (Tone 4) (Romanian Byzantine, Fr. Roman)

• Troparion (Tone 4) (Yaichkov)

• Kontakion (Tone 4) (Yaichkov)

• Hymn of Light (Listen, O Women)

• Praises Verse 1 (Tone 1) (Joy of the Heavenly Hosts)

• Verse 2

• Verse 3

• Verse 4

December 6 - St. Nicholas

• Aposticha Verse 1 (Tone 5) (Rejoice, O Life Bearing Cross)

• Verse 2

• Verse 3

• Praises Verse 1(Tone 1) (Joy of the Heavenly Hosts)

• Verse 2

• Verse 3

• Verse 4 

• Troparion (Tone 4) (Plain and Harmonized Versions)

• Magnification

• Kontakion and Ikos

December 13 - St. Herman of Alaska

• Lord I Call Verses 4-6 (Tone 4) (You have given a sign)

• Folk Song (based on the folk song to St. Nicholas - written by the sisiters)

December 21-24 - Nativity Prefeast

• Kontakion (Tone 3) (Today the Virgin)

• December 24 Compline Canon

• Royal Hours: 9th Hour Final Stichera (Tone 6) (Like Antiphon 15 from Holy Week)

December 25 - Nativity of our Lord

• Vespers Prokeimenon - (Tone 1)   

• Troparion (Tone 4) (Carpatho-Russian)

• Kontakion (Tone 3) (Today the Virgin)

• Magnification

• Hymn of Light (Adapted from JEB)

• Communion Hymn (Modern Greek, 3-part)

January 1- Circumcision of our Lord & St. Basil

• 9th Ode Verses (Tone 2) (Lesser Znamenny)

January 2- Saint Seraphim

• Lord I Call Verses 1-3 (Tone 1) (O Most Glorious Wonder)

January 2-5 - Theophany Prefeast

• January 4 Compline Canon (Odes 3,4,5,&9) (other odes can be found in SVS holy week Volume II

• January 5 ComplineCanon (Updated: Thank you V.Morosan for the edits and nice music engraving)

• Royal Hours: 9th Hour Final Stichera (Tone 5) (Pskov Chant)

January 6 - Theophany of our Lord

• Magnification

• Hymn of Light (adapted from JEB)

• Communion Hymn (Modern Greek, 3-part)

January 30 - Three Hierarchs

• Magnification (Znamenny Chant)

• 9th Ode (Tone 2) (Lesser Znamenny)

February 2 - Entrance of the Lord in the Temple

• Exapostilarion (Hymn of Light) (Hearken ye Women)

March 24 - Forefeast Annunciation

• Lord I Call Verse 1 (Tone 4) (As one valiant among martyrs) (2-part)

• Lord I Call Verse 2

• Lord I Call Verse 3 

March 25 - Annunciation

• Lord I Call Verse 1 (Tone 6) (Having Set All Our Hope) 

• Lord I Call Verse 2 

• Lord I Call Verse 3 

• Litya Verse 1 (Bulgarian)

• Litya Verse 2

• Litya Verse 3

• Troparion (Greek)

• Kontakion (Carpatho-Russian)

June 29 - Ss. Peter and Paul

• Hypakoe (Tone 8) (re-transcribed)

July 19 - St. Seraphim

• Lord I Call: Verses 1-3 (from Jan 2) (Tone 1) (O Most Glorious Wonder)

• Verse 4 

August 1-14 - Paraklesis to the Theotokos

• Slavic Paraklesis (Tone 8) (Translation by HTM press) (Set in English at the monastery from an unknown CD of nuns in Poland)

August 5 - Prefeast of the Transfiguration

• Troparion and Kontakion (Tone 4)

August 6 - Transfiguration

• Litya - Glory Verse (Tone 5) (Pskov Chant)

• Litya - Now & Ever Verse

• Troparion (Tone 7)

• Kontakion (Tone 7)

• Sessional Hymn - 1 (Tone 4) (Joseph was Amazed)

• Sessional Hymn - 2 (Tone 4) (Joseph was Amazed)

• Magnification (Traditional)

• Sessional Hymn - after Magnification (Tone 4) (Joseph was Amazed)

• Sessional Hymn - after Ode 3 (Tone 4) (Joseph was Amazed)

• Hymn of Light - arr. Fr. Roman (Braga)

• Praises - 1 (Tone 4) (Called from Above)

• Praises - 2 (Tone 4) (Called from Above)

• Praises - 3 (Tone 4) (Called from Above)

• Communion Hymn - Arkhangelsky, arr. R. George & JEB

August 15 - Dormition of the Theotokos

• Lord I Call Glory verse in all 8 tones (Byzantine)

Triodion

Daily

• Lenten Hours Troparia (Romanian)

• Gladsome Light (in Bulgarian Tone 1)

• Gladsome Light (Carpatho-Russian) (Adapted from Arr. by Fr. Lawrence Margitich)

• Lord of Powers (from Great Compline - Fr. Roman's arrangement)

• Lord of the Powers (from Great Compline - Greek byzantine arrangement)

Presanctified Liturgy

• Let My Prayer Arise Trio (Kiev Caves Lavra Melody, adapted for the Sisters)

• Our Father (Monastery Composition) - To be sung with Arkhangelsky Lenten Litanies (#3 from The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, SVS Press).

• O Taste and See (trans. from old music, adapted from Bortniansky's Now the Powers)

• Let our Mouths Be Filled with Thy Praise (Traditional Lenten Melody)

• Let our Mouths Be filled with Thy Praise (Monastery Composition) - To be sung with Arkhangelsky Litanies

• Blessed Be the Name of the Lord (adapted from Arkhangelsky Litanies -#3 from The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, SVS Press)

3rd Sunday of Lent - Cross

• Lord I Call - Cross Verse 1; 

• Lord I Call - Cross Verse 2; 

• Lord I Call - Cross Verse 3; 

• Lord I Call - Cross Verse 4 (Rejoice, O Life Bearing Cross)

• Troparion (Tone 1) (Fr. Roman's setting)

• Before Thy Cross (2-part based on James C. Meena's setting)

Palm Sunday

• Festal Sticheron (Tone 6 Holy Trinity/St. Sergius)

• Palm Sunday Katavasia (Traditional Romanian Melody - Adapted from Fr. Roman's arrangement)

Holy Week

• Alleluia and Troparion (Behold the Bridegroom) (Tone 8 Harmonized Byzaintine)

• Exapostilarion of Bridegroom Matins (I see Your Bridal Chamber) (Fr. Roman's setting)

• Exapostilarion for Matins of Holy Friday (The Wise Thief) (Fr. Roman's Setting)

• Lamenations (translated and compiled with Psalm 118 by Stan & Nancy newbyz.org) (Print 2-sided and fold book together)

• Lamentations (single 5.5 by 8.5 pages)

Pentecostarion

Pascha

Paschal Troparia

• Troparion (Slavonic, Gorodok) (SSAT) (St. Nicholas Monastery in  Gorodok, Ukraine)

•     (English Version)

• Troparion (Slavonic, Gorodok) (SATB) (St. Nicholas Monastery in  Gorodok, Ukraine)

•     (English Version)

• Troparion (Romanian) (SSA or SAT) (Slow Romanian Pascha Troparion)

• Troparion (German) (SSA or SAT - adapted/shortened) (Transcribed from Gregorian Neumes - Thanks Nick!)

Other

• Pascha Canon All 9th Ode Refrains (for use with Bakhmetev Canon from SVSPress) 

• Exapostilarion (Arranged by Fr. Roman Braga, transcribed 2013 - Thanks Joe!; revised 2019)

• Bright Wednesday Great Prokeimenon (Sung Tuesday Evening) (Romanian Tone 7)

Bright Friday - Life Giving Spring

• Lord I Call Verse 1 (Tone 6) (Having Set all our Hope)

• Verse 2

• Verse 3 

• Bright Friday Great Prokeimenon (Sung Thursday Evening) (Romanian Tone 7)

Ascension

• Troparion (Tone 4) (Yaichkov)

Pentecost

• Sessional Hymn - 1 (Tone 4) (Joseph was Amazed)

• Sessional Hymn - 2 (Tone 4) (Joseph was Amazed)

• Sessional Hymn after Ode 3 (Tone 8) (That which was secretly ordained))  

• Exapostilarion - 1 (Zhelenyakov)

• Exapostilarion - 2 (Hearken Ye Women)

All Saints of North America

• Lord I Call Verse 5 (Tone 6) (Having Set all our Hope)  

• Lord I Call Verse 6 (Tone 6) (Having Set all our Hope) Transcribed from CD: All Saints of North America (Selections From Vespers and Matins): Celebrating the Bicentennial of Orthodox Christianity in North America

• Lord I Call Glory Verse (Tone 5) (Pskov Chant)

• Troparion (Tone 8) (Carpatho Russian Chant)

• Troparion (Tone 8) (Byzantine Chant) (scanned copy from ROEA)

• Kontakion (Tone 3) (Today the Virgin)

• Praises (Tone 8) (What shall we call you)

  • Verse 1 - 2-part; 4-part

  • Verse 2 - 2-part; 4-part

  • Verse 3 - 2-part; 4-part

  • Verse 4 - 2-part; 4-part

Divine Liturgy

Eis Polla (Trio)

• • Eis Polla (Trio) (for women's choir) (Z.Mandell) (Written for the 50th Anniversary of the Monastery.

Holy God

• • Holy God (for small women's choir) (Monastery Composition)

At the Gospel and Litanies after the Gospel

• At the Gospel, Litany of Fervent Supplication and Litanies of the Catechumens and Faithful

• Litany for the Departed (Romanian Melody)

• Litany for the Departed (Romanian Melody #2)

Cherubic Hymns

• Cherubic Hymn - Bulgarian Tone 2 (Noble Joseph) Arranged by Fr. Gregory Becker

• Cherubic Hymn - Staro-Simonovskaya

• Cherubic Hymn - Streletskaia Chant (2-part) Arranged by Raymond Mandell and Zachariah Mandell

• Cherubic Hymn - Streletskaia Chant (3-part women) Arranged by Raymond Mandell and Zachariah Mandell

• Cherubic Hymn (Monastery Composition, written for our 55th Anniversary)

Father Son and Holy Spirit

• Father Son and Holy Spirit (Byzantine Tone 5) For use with A Mercy of Peace - The Anaphora (Byzantine Tone 5 arr. by J. Erickson)

Communion Hymns

• Sunday Communion Hymn (Praise the Lord) (Modern Greek, 3-part)

• Monday Communion Hymn (He Makes His Angels) ("Greek" Chant)

• Tuesday Communion Hymn (The Righteous) (Simplified for Women's Voices)

• Wednesday (Theotokos) Communion Hymn (Monastery Composition)

Vigil

• Bless the Lord - Psalm 103(4) (Traditional OCA setting) Set to chant the entire Psalm with Bless the Lord, O my soul! as a refrain between psalm verses.

• Gladsome Light - Valaam Chant (2-part)

• Great Doxology - Tone 8 (2-part) (Romanian) - Adapted from Fr. Roman's melody setting - thanks Zoe!

Miscellaneous

• Guardian Angel (for Travel) (Learned at St. Nicholas Monastery in Gorodok, Ukraine)

• Wait on the Lord - Psalm 26(27) (Monastery Composition)

Funeral

General Funeral Hymns

• Prokeimenon (Tone 3) (Adapted from Fr. Apostolos Hill)

• Funeral Hymns of Blessing (ROEA translation and setting)

• Funeral Hymns of Blessing (OCA translation, Soroka setting)

• Eternal Memory (Greek translation and setting)

• Funeral Refrains for Psalm 118 (Byzantine)

Priest Funeral

• Order of Burial for a priest (Compiled and edited from OCA files and "Soroka" music settings for the funeral of Fr. Thomas Hopko)

Music Links

• OCA Music Website

• Podoben.org

• St. Tikhon's Monastery Music Resource

• The Divine Liturgies Music Project

• Pan-Orthodox Choir of Pittsburgh

• PaTRAM Institute

• International Society for Orthodox Church Music

• St. John of Kronstadt Press - Looseleaf Menaion Catalogue