Click on the thumbnail to see a larger version. Most images are in the 70K-100K
range; they were taken by a digital camera but are not in perfect focus. When I get
a chance, I will retake them.
The book is available for purchase. Please contact me at the address below.
| The music is contained in a large binder. Cover pages are as shown here.
The cover page image can be customized for your church and choir if an image
is provided. Personal copies are labelled with the person's name; choir copies
are labelled as "Xop" and a book number.
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| Here is a the beginning of the Divine Liturgy. The page serves as a good
example of the typical appearance of music in this collection.
In the upper right of the page, you will note that the Great Ektenia is
section 4 of the liturgy, and this is the first version of the Great Ektenia
in this collection, thus: page 04-1. The choir quickly learns where sections
end and flips to the next section automatically. The director need only indicate
the version of the next item to be sung that Sunday.
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| Each section includes multiple versions of the liturgical score, by
various composers. (Though certain sections only have one version at the
moment, multiple versions will be appearing in the future.) Again, choosing
a version is as simple as picking the number. Small spiral-bound booklets
with a list of large version numbers are available.
Because much of choral music in our tradition was composed to be part of a
larger work or to be sung at a concert, a multitude of keys is present. In order
to prevent constant key changes, the keys of the various pieces have been changed,
so much as possible, to either F/d or C/a. The original key is indicated on the score.
Items in the repertoire of a given choir that are not yet in this book
can simply be added in the correct section and assigned a number. I will accept
copies of your own choir's items that are not in this book, but I will not
promise to transcribe them until after I exhaust my own collection, which will
not be for another 2 or 3 years at the present rate.
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| In like manner, propers are extensively included. I have attempted to
leave nothing to chance or to the thought that "everyone knows" what to do.
For this reason, though it requires more pages, each variant has its own
page and version number. The propers are not complete as yet, and work on
these is continuing.
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| Because many choir directors are not professional dyaky (cantors),
informational pages are provided for those sections of the liturgy that
change. These pages are based on official church publications and rubrics
and have been extensively reviewed by eparchial officials. Traditional
usage and practice is emphasized throughout.
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| Updates
| When a reaonable number of additional pages have been created, these
will be sent to purchasers of original copies for insertion into the binder.
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