“Sing praises to our God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises” (Psalm 46:7)
The Choir Director's Library is a section created to help the choir directors and singers of our cathedral's kliros. Gathered here is what is needed to prepare for and celebrate the divine services: the orders of services, sheet music for festal hymns and stichera, and audio recordings of church chants.
Learning to sing the prayers
These audio recordings will help you learn the church hymns:
Have Mercy on Us, O Lord (Tone 6 chant)
I Believe in One God (the Creed, common chant)
O Heavenly King
Troparion and Kontakion of the Nativity of Christ (Tone 4 and Tone 3 chants)
Many Years (common chant)
Receive the Body of Christ (common chant)
Sections of the library
Sheet music and orders of services are being prepared for publication. The library will include the following sections:
- the Festal Menaion;
- the Lenten Triodion and the Pentecostarion;
- the All-Night Vigil and the Divine Liturgy;
- hierarchical services;
- occasional services: funerals, weddings;
- akathists, molebens, canons.