The Paschal Cycle

- Sheet music for the period from the preparation for Lent through the Sunday of All Saints

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By the Waters of Babylon
Novgorod Melody, as in the Sputnik Psalomshchika

Open unto Me the Doors of Repentance   Video
Boris M. Ledkovsky (adapted for English by Archpriest George Johnson)
*melody in Alto

Now the Powers of Heaven
Kievan Chant, 6th Tone
arranged by Archpriest George Johnson
– For a full choir, Sopranos sing V1, Altos sing V2, which is the melody, and Tenors sing V3.

Make Haste to Open Unto Me
arranged by Archpriest George Johnson

Katavasia
from a Moscow Obikhod

“Lord, I Have Cried” Stichera from the Triodion
6th Tone, to the special melody “Having set all your hope”

Irmoi
Greek Chant, 8th Tone

Magnification
Common Chant, arranged by Archpriest George Johnson

Irmoi
Greek Chant, 4th Tone

Antiphons at Liturgy
Znamenny Chant, arranged by Archpriest George Johnson

Behold, the Bridegroom Cometh
Kievan Chant, to its own melody

Holy Monday Irmoi
Holy Tuesday Irmoi
Holy Wednesday Irmoi
Abbreviated Znamenny Chant, 2nd Tone

Exapostilarion
Kiev melody, arranged by Archpriest George Johnson

Lamentations
Archpriest George Johnson

Irmoi
Abbreviated Znamenny Chant, 6th Tone

Kontakion
Abbreviated Bulgarian Chant, 6th Tone

God is the Lord
The Noble Joseph
Glory
Unto the Myrrh-Bearing Women
Both Now
When Thou Didst Descend Unto Death
Bulgarian Chant, 2nd Tone

Instead of “It is Truly Meet”
Abbreviated Znamenny Chant, 6th Tone

Exapostilarion
Greek Chant, 3rd Tone
harmony after E. Smirnov

Paschal Stichera
Znamenny Chant, arranged by Bakhmetev
*melody in Alto

Instead of “It is Truly Meet”
Abbreviated Greek Chant
*melody in Alto

4th Sunday of Pascha - the Paralytic
Pointed Text

5th Sunday of Pascha - the Samaritan Woman
Pointed Text

Magnification
Common Chant, arranged by Archpriest George Johnson

First Antiphon
Znamenny Chant, arranged by Archpriest George Johnson
*melody in Alto

Second Antiphon
Znamenny Chant, arranged by Archpriest George Johnson
*melody in Alto

Instead of “It is Truly Meet”
Znamenny Chant, arranged by Archpriest George Johnson
*melody in Alto

Troparion
Kievan Chant, 8th Tone
Kontakion
Kievan Chant, 8th Tone
O Heavenly King
Kievan Chant, 6th Tone
arranged by Archpriest George Johnson
Prokeimenon at Matins
Znamenny Chant, 4th Tone
First and Second Antiphon
Znamenny Chant
arranged by Archpriest George Johnson
Prokeimenon at Divine Liturgy
Znamenny Chant, 8th Tone
Instead of “It is Truly Meet”
Abbreviated Greek Chant, 4th Tone
arranged by Archpriest George Johnson
*melody in Alto
– a split in the tenor part offers a low option for choirs without any true tenors, but if resources allow for only one tenor part, the higher one should be sung when feasible