Byzantine Chant Author: Cavarnos, Constantine Publisher: Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies

Byzantine Sacred Music Author: Cavarnos, Constantine Publisher: Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies

Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete Author: Heckman, Theodore Publisher: St Tikhon’s Press

This book provides the majority of the fixed and changeable aspects of Great Vespers as celebrated by itself or within a Vigil service on Saturday evening. It contains the eight tones for the stichera and aposticha. Choir parts are written out in three-part harmony. This book is small enough to put in a jacket pocket.

Complete music and text for the Bridegroom Matins of Great and Holy Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, settings for the “proper” hymns of Matins, Vespers, and the Divine Liturgy of Holy Thursday.

Contains Stikhera in the standard obikhod chant, other “proper” hymns in a variety of settings.

Lamentations of Matins – Great and Holy Saturday Author: HTM Publisher: Holy Transfiguration Monastery

This reprinted Matins book for Sunday morning is arranged for three-part singing, adapted and compiled by the Rev. Igor Soroka. It was originally printed in 1992.

Matins of Great and Holy Saturday Author: Adamczyk, Gene Publisher: St Tikhon’s Press

The history of church singing in Russia constitutes an essential aspect of this nation’s cultural and musical history. For the first 650 years, from the Christianization of Rus’ in the year 988, liturgical chant was the only documentable art music in that vast territory that eventually became the modern nations of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Indeed in Russia before the revolution in 1917, “liturgical musicology” was a bona fide scholarly discipline, taught in conservatories, universities, and theological seminaries. All activity in the field came to a halt, however, during the 75-year “Soviet era,” when the study and practice of sacred music was severely repressed for ideological reasons, with a resulting lack of published research and secondary material. Consequently, Russian and Western music historians, church musicians, and liturgical scholars (as well as ordinary church-goers), whose interest in Orthodox Christianity and its art has been increasing of late, have been deprived of reference works that would impart even a general knowledge of the history and development of liturgical singing in the Russian Orthodox Church.

The present volume, Russian Church Singing: Volume 2 is the second installment of Professor Johann von Gardner’s monumental work to appear in English translation. The 396-page volume, translated and edited by Dr. Vladimir Morosan, considers the development and practice of liturgical chant in the Russian lands from a variety of aspects: its origins and the various cultural influences upon its formation; extant manuscripts; the evolution of the notation and the problematics of deciphering it into modern-day notes; the forces involved in its performance; its stylistic evolution from exclusively monadic forms to improvised and, eventually, notated polyphony; its earliest known composers and performing ensembles; its aesthetics in relation to liturgy, the language, and the various problems that arose over the centuries, resulting in the adoption of Westernized stylistic models around the year 1650, which marks the approximate end of the time period covered in this volume. Much of this information is made accessible for the first time to the English reader, and will be of interest both to the specialist and to the general reader, generating a healthy demand for further research and exploration into this fascinating and hitherto unknown field.