Music at St Basil
Singing and Making Melody:
Music for Divine Services
We have organized our commonly-used music into a (growing) collection of coil-bound books available from Lulu.com (sold at cost). If you would like to learn our music better and/or use these for praying Vespers at home, feel free to download them here or purchase them bound via Lulu.
Sheet music from OCA and St Vladimir’s Seminary.
Volume I
The unchanging hymns (the “Ordinary”) for Vespers and Divine Liturgy, as currently sung at St Basil. Also includes the full text of Vespers. Available for free PDF download or coil bound via Lulu ($14.12+shipping).
Sheet music from OCA and St Vladimir’s Seminary. Text from OCA, supplemented with Holy Myrrhbearers Monastery.
Volume II
The variable hymns (the “Propers”) from the Book of the Eight Tones (Octoechos) for Vespers each day of the week. [NB: not all hymns pointed.] Available for free PDF download or coil bound via Lulu ($10.97+shipping).
Volume III
Music. Available for free PDF download or coil bound via Lulu ($10.97+shipping).
Sheet music from OCA. Text from OCA, supplemented with Holy Myrrhbearers Monastery.
Theotokion Supplement
Common Theotokos hymns in the Eight Tones for use at both Daily and Great Vespers, for each day of the week. [NB: not all hymns pointed.] Available for free PDF download or coil bound via Lulu ($5.45+shipping).