Music Library > Great Lent > Holy Week
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Bridegroom Matins Exaposteilarion.PDF
(22K)Chant with ison, Byzantine Tone 3, arranger unknown. Sung three times on each evening of Bridegroom Matins (Palm Sunday evening, Holy Monday evening and Holy Tuesday evening.) -

Bridegroom Matins.PDF
(238K)Text and for the Bridegroom Matins service, served on the evenings of Palm Sunday, Holy Monday and Holy Tuesday. Meant to accompany the music from the Kazan Project for Bridegroom Matins (Troparion and congregational responses included.) -

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Holy Friday - Trisagion.PDF
(23K)4-part harmony, composer unknown. Sung only on Holy Friday during the procession with the bier. A hauntingly beautiful melody. -

Holy Friday - Troparia.PDF
(21K)Chant, Byzantine Tone 2, arranged by Basil Kazan. "The Pious Joseph" and "Verily the Angel," used at Taking Down from the Cross Vespers. -

Holy Saturday Cherubic Hymn.PDF
(89K)4-part harmony, composed by Klimov and Lebedev. "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent": replaced the Cherubic Hymn on Holy Saturday morning. -

Holy Thursday Apolytikion.PDF
(44K)Chant with ison, Byzantine tone 8, arranged by Basil Kazan. Sung at Holy Thursday Divine Liturgy. -

Holy Thursday Exaposteilarion (Wise Thief).PDF
(20K)4-part harmony, composed by Erickson. Sung at the Passion Gospels service. -

Holy Week Alleluia.PDF
(22K)Chant, Byzantine Tone 8, arranged by Basil Kazan, harmonized by Colleen Oren. Used during the Matins services of Holy Week. -

Lazarus Saturday Troparion.PDF
(26K)Chant with ison, Byzantine Tone 1, arranger unknown. Sung throughout the weekend of Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday. -

Palm Sunday - Entrance Hymn.PDF
(29K)4-part harmony, origin and composer unknown, adapted by Colleen Oren. Used at the Little Entrance on Palm Sunday only. -

Palm Sunday - Processional.PDF
(19K)Chant with ison, Byzantine tone 6, arranged by Kh. Joyce Black. Used during the Palm Sunday Procession. -

Passion Gospel Responses.PDF
(24K)Four-part harmony, Kievan chant, composer unknown. Sung at the Passion Gospels service on Holy Thursday. -

Russian Beatitudes - Holy Thursday.PDF
(76K)Four-part harmony, Russian Tone 1, arranger unknown. Interspersed with verses to be sung at the Passion Gospels service on Holy Thursday. -

The Soldiers Keeping Watch.PDF
(19K)Chant, Byzantine tone 2, arranged by the Boston Byzantine Choir, transcribed by Emily Lowe. Sung at the Lamentations service between the Canon odes.
