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The Lenten Triodion

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

Open unto Me the Doors of Repentance   Video
by 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 the melody (V2), tenors sing the parallel part (V1), and altos sing the filler (V3). Basses should always sing the bass. The other 3 voice parts can be given to any singers in either octave to accommodate the abilities of the choir. Keep in mind that the music will sound better without large gaps between the parts (eg. melody and parallel part as written with filler an octave lower) and that if voice parts need to be removed, the filler will be missed the least, and the melody, obviously, the most.

3rd Sunday of Lent

Katavasia
from a Moscow Obikhod

5th Sunday of Lent

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

Palm Sunday

Irmoi
Greek Chant

The Pentecostarion

Ascension

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

Pentecost

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

 
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