Selected Byzantine Hymns

Publication Data: Boston, MA: Holy Transfiguration Monastery, 1986
Format: comb-bound
Number of Pages: 130
Dimensions (l × w × h): 28.0 cm × 22.3 cm × 1.5 cm
Additional Information: black-and-white illustrations
ISBN: 0‒913026‒59‒X

   
“Though humble in format, we believe that the present book, which was translated and transcribed by the fathers of our monastery, fills a pronounced need in regards to the Church’s sacred chant set to an English text. As the title indicates, the hymns contained herein are but a selection, yet our hope is that this small selection will serve to whet the appetite of those who seek to learn more of these hymns of ‘gladdening sorrow,’ of these sacred songs of the spiritual Sion, the New Israel.”
—“FOREWORD”

CONTENTS

FOREWORD
EXPLANATORY NOTE
I. VESPERS When Thou Openest Thy Hand
   O Joyous Light
   O Theotokos and Virgin
II. GREAT LENT The Lenten Dismissal Hymns of Sunday Vespers
   THE LITURGY OF THE PRESANCTIFIED GIFTS
      Let My Prayer Be Set Forth
      Now the Hosts of the Heavens
      O Taste and See
      A Shorter Version of the Same Communion Hymn
      I Will Bless the Lord At All Times
   THE GREAT PROKEIMENA OF HOLY AND GREAT LENT
      The First Great Prokeimenon
      The Second Great Prokeimenon
   THE AKATHIST HYMN
      The Dismissal Hymn
      The Kontakion
      “Rejoice, Thou Bride Unwedded” and “Alleluia”
      “Awed By the Beauty”
   The Polyeleos: “By the Waters of Babylon”
   The Post-Gospel Hymns for Sunday Matins of the Triodion
   THE LITURGY OF ST. BASIL
      The Extended Responses for “Meet and Right It Is” and “Holy, Holy, Holy”
      The Megalynarion: “In Thee, O Full of Grace”
III. HOLY WEEK AND PASCHA The Alleluia’s of the Bridegroom Service
   The Dismissal Hymn of the Bridegroom Service
   The Exapostilarion of the Bridegroom Service and Holy Thursday
   The Troparion of Cassiane
   The Dismissal Hymn of Holy Thursday and Holy Friday
   THE LITURGY OF HOLY THURSDAY
      Of Thy Mystic Supper (as chanted for the Great Entrance)
      Of Thy Mystic Supper (as chanted for the Communion Hymn)
      The Megalynarion: “Come, O Ye Faithful, With Uplifted Minds”
      Of Thy Mystic Supper (as chanted instead of “We Have Seen the True Light” and “Fill My Mouth With Thy Praise”)
   Today There is Hung Upon the Tree
   The Exapostilarion of Holy and Great Friday
   The Dismissal Hymn for the End of Matins of Holy Friday
   The Dismissal Hymn of Holy and Great Saturday
   Evlogitaria of the Resurrection
   THE LITURGY OF HOLY SATURDAY
      The Hymn of the Three Children
      Arise, O God
      Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
      The Megalynarion: “Mourn Not For Me, O Mother”
      The Lord Awoke As One That Sleepeth
      A Shorter Version of the Same Communion Hymn
      Remember Us Also, O Compassionate One
   THE MATINS AND LITURGY OF HOLY PASCHA
      Hymn of the Unwaning Light
      The Processional
      The Dismissal Hymn and Hypakoe
      The Kontakion
      The Katavasiae
      The Traditional Order for the Chanting of the Ninth Ode
      The Exapostilarion
      The Stichera of Pascha
      The Doxasticon: “It Is the Day of Resurrection”
      The Dismissal Hymn of St. John Chrysostom
      The Angel Cried Unto Her That Is Full of Grace
      Partake Ye of the Body of Christ
      A Shorter Version of the Same Communion Hymn
      Christ Is Risen (Heirmologic, as chanted instead of “Blessed Be the Name of the Lord”)
IV. OTHER HYMNS THE FEAST OF HOLY PENTECOST
      The Doxasticon: “Heavenly King”
   THE FEAST OF THE DORMITION OF THE THEOTOKOS (Aug. 15)
      The First Doxasticon of Great Vespers—as chanted in the Eight Tones
   FOR VIGILS
      The Great Polyeleos