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Joy of the Heavenly Hosts

Τῶν οὐρανίων ταγμάτων/Небесныхъ чиновъ радованiе

This hymn is used as the theotokion at the aposticha in Sunday evening vespers in weeks of the first tone. The melody may be found in other hymns at “Lord, I Call,” the aposticha of both matins and vespers, and at the praises at matins.
Carpathian prostopinije [MIDI]
Glinsk hermitage chant [MIDI]
Kiev Caves Lavra chant [MIDI]
Optina hermitage chant [MIDI]
Pochaev Lavra chant [MIDI]
Znamenny chant [MIDI]

Let the Angelic Choir

Χορὸς Ἀγγελικός/Ликъ ангельскіи

This sessional hymn (kathisma/sedalen) in the first tone is sung after the first psalter reading at matins for the feast of the Meeting of our Lord (Candlemas) on February 2. The melody may be used for other kathismata/sedalny, or for troparia/apolytikia or kontakia.

Metrically, this hymn is identical to “The Soldiers Guarding Thy Tomb” in Greek. In the Bulgarian books, they share a melody; but in some Greek traditions, they do not.
Galician chant [MIDI]

O All-Praised Martyrs

Πανεύφημοι μάρτυρες/Прехвальніи мученицы

This hymn in the first tone is found at Wednesday evening vespers during weeks of the first tone, as a sticheron of the aposticha dedicated to the Apostles. Hymns using this melody may be found in any of the usual sticheral contexts: at “Lord, I Call,” the aposticha, or the praises at matins.
Glinsk hermitage chant [MIDI]
Kiev Caves Lavra chant [MIDI]
Optina hermitage chant [MIDI]

O Marvelous Wonder

Ὢ τοῦ παραδόξου θαύματος/О дивное чудо

This hymn in the first tone is the first sticheron at “Lord, I Call” for the feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God on August 15. The melody may be used in any of the sticheral contexts.

There is some confusion between this melody (in tone 1) and “O Most Glorious Wonder” in tone 8. In Greek, both have the same name (though different meter); but in Slavonic they received different names, which is reflected in the English titles used here.
Kiev Caves Lavra chant [MIDI]
Krasnogorsk monastery chant [MIDI]

The Soldiers Guarding Thy Tomb

Τὸν τάφον σου Σωτήρ/Гробъ твой Спасе

This kathisma/sedalen hymn in the first tone is sung at Sunday matins during weeks of the first tone. It is also notably sung at matins of Great and Holy Saturday. This melody may be used for kathismata/sedalny or kontakia. It is not encountered as a troparion/apolytikion melody.
Solovetsky chant [MIDI]
Kiev Caves Lavra chant [MIDI]

When the Stone Had Been Sealed

Τοῦ λίθου σφραγισθέντος/Камени запечатану

This hymn is the Resurrectional troparion/apolytikion of the first tone. The melody is quite commonly used for other troparia/apolytikia as well as kathismata/sedalny.
St. Elias Skete chant [MIDI]

Let Us Assemble With the Disciples

Τοῖς Μαθηταῖς συνέλθωμεν/Со ученики взыдемъ

This hymn serves as the exaposteilarion for the first Resurrectional gospel. Its melody is also used for the other ten Resurrectional gospel exaposteilaria.
Kiev Caves Lavra chant [MIDI]
Bulgarian chant [MIDI]

Seeking Things on High

Τὰ ἄνω ζητῶν/Вышнихъ ища

This is the kontakion for St. Symeon the Stylite in the second tone. This melody is used exclusively for kontakia.
Galician chant [MIDI]
Bulgarian chant [MIDI]

With What Wreaths of Praise

Ποίοις εὐφημιῶν στέμμασιν/Кіими похвальными вѣнцы

This hymn is the first sticheron at “Lord, I Call” for the feast of Ss. Peter and Paul on June 29, in the second tone. The melody may used in all the sticheric contexts.
Kiev Caves Lavra chant [MIDI]

Awed By the Beauty

Τὴν ὡραιότητα/Красотѣ дѣвьства твоего

In Greek practice, this hymn is best-known for being sung at small compline on Fridays of Great Lent, together with the Akathist Hymn. It is also the theotokion at the kathismata/sedalny after the first reading of the psalter at Sunday matins of the third tone. This melody is used almost exclusively for kathismata/sedalny.
Byzantine chant [MIDI]
Carpathian prostopinije [MIDI]
Kiev Caves Lavra chant [MIDI]

Great is the Power of Thy Cross

Μεγάλη τοῦ Σταυροῦ σου/Велія креста твоего

This hymn is sung at the aposticha of Sunday evening vespers in weeks of the third tone. Its melody may be found in any of the sticheric contexts.
Znamenny chant [MIDI]

Our Savior, the Dayspring

Ἐπεσκέψατο ἡμᾶς/Посетилъ ны есть

This hymn is the exaposteilarion of the Nativity of our Lord, in the third tone. Its melody may be borrowed by other exaposteilaria.
Kiev Caves Lavra chant [MIDI]

Thou Who Didst Adorn Heaven With Stars

Ὁ οὐρανὸν τοῖς ἄστροις/Небо звездами

This is the first exaposteilarion at Saturday matins. Its melody is borrowed by numerous other exaposteilaria, including those of Tuesday and Thursday.
Bulgarian chant [MIDI]

Thy Confession of the Divine Faith

Θείας πίστεως/Божественныя веры

This is the troparion of St. Paul the Confessor, whose feast is kept on November 6. This melody is somewhat rarely used for other troparia as well as sessional hymns. In Greek usage, the troparion of the Great-martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-streaming is sung to a melody that is almost identical to this one; the difference is only in one syllable. Nonetheless, the troparion of St. Demetrius is never labeled as a podoben of this melody in the Greek chant-books.
Bulgarian chant [MIDI]

Today the Virgin

Ἡ Παρθένος σήμερον/Дѣва днесь

This is the kontakion for the Nativity of our Lord, in the third tone. Its melody is used for many other kontakia.
Znamenny chant [MIDI]
Kiev Caves Lavra chant [MIDI]

As Thou Wast Voluntarily Raised

Ὁ ὑψωθεὶς ἐν τῷ Σταυρῷ/Вознесыися на крестъ волею

This is the kontakion of the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. Its melody is widely used for kontakia and kathismata/sedalny.
Kiev Caves Lavra chant [MIDI]

Come Quickly To Our Aid

Ταχὺ προκατάλαβε/Скоро предвари

This hymn is a kathisma/sedalen at Wednesday matins in the fourth tone. Its melody is widely used for kathismata/sedalny.
St. Elias Skete chant [MIDI]

I Want to Wash Away With Tears

Ἤθελον δάκρυσιν ἐξαλεῖψαι/Хотѣхъ слезами омыти

This hymn is sung at the aposticha of Sunday evening vespers in weeks of the fourth tone. Its melody is also used for the twenty-four alphabetic-acrostic stichera of repentance sung at the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts on Wednesday of the fifth week of Great Lent.
Kiev Caves Lavra chant [MIDI]

Joseph Was Amazed

Κατεπλάγη Ἰωσήφ/Удивися Іосифъ

This hymn is sung as the theotokion at the kathismata/sedalny after the first reading of the psalter at Sunday matins of the fourth tone. Its melody is widely used for other kathismata/sedalny, as well as for the kontakia of the forefeasts of Nativity and Theophany.
Kiev Caves Lavra chant [MIDI]

Today Thou Art Shown Forth

Ἐπεφάνης σήμερον/Явился еси днесь

This hymn is the kontakion of Theophany, in the fourth tone. Its melody is widely used for other kontakia.
Galician chant [MIDI]

Ye Who Were Called From On High

Ὁ ἐξ ὑψίστου κληθείς/Званный свыше

This hymn is the first sticheron at the praises at matins for the feast of Ss. Peter and Paul on June 29, in the fourth tone. Its melody may be used in any of the sticheric contexts.
Optina hermitage chant [MIDI]
Kiev Caves Lavra chant [MIDI]

Let Us the Faithful Praise and Worship the Word

Τὸν συνάναρχον Λόγον/Собезначальное слово

This hymn is the Resurrectional troparion/apolytikion in the fifth tone. Its melody is widely used in kathismata/sedalny, and occasionally in other troparia/apolytikia.
St. Elias Skete chant [MIDI]
Kiev Caves Lavra chant [MIDI]

O Venerable Father

Ὅσιε Πάτερ/Преподобне Отче

This hymn is the first sticheron sung at “Lord, I Call” for the feast of St. Theodosius the Cœnobiarch on January 11. Its melody is occasionally encountered for other stichera as well.

This melody is unknown in the traditions of Rus, but it is readily available from Byzantine sources, including the Bulgarian chant-books.
Bulgarian chant [MIDI]

Rejoice, O Life-bearing Cross

Χαίροις ἀσκητικῶν/Радуйся, живоносный кресте

This hymn is the first sticheron at the aposticha of vespers of the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. Its melody may be used in any of the sticheric contexts.

Note that in Greek usage, this hymn is considered to be a derivative of a hymn to St. Sabbas the Sanctified, “Rejoice, truly fragrant vessel of ascetic struggles.”
Carpathian prostopinije [MIDI]
Optina hermitage chant [MIDI]
Znamenny chant [MIDI]
Valaam chant [MIDI]

Despairing For Her Life

Ἡ ἀπεγνωσμένη/Отчаянная жити ради

This is the last sticheron at the aposticha of Great Wednesday matins, directly before the Hymn of Kassiani. Its melody is occasionally borrowed by stichera at “Lord, I Call” or the praises.
Kiev Caves Lavra chant [MIDI]

Having Placed All Their Hope

Ὅλην ἀποθέμενοι/Все отложше

This hymn is a sticheron at “Lord, I call” for vespers of the feast of Ss. Cosmas and Damian, in the sixth tone. This melody is widely used for hymns in all sticheric contexts.
Seven Lakes hermitage chant [MIDI]
Kiev Caves Lavra chant [MIDI]

On the Third Day Thou Didst Rise

Τριήμερος ἀνέστης Χριστέ/Тридневенъ воскреслъ

This hymn is one of the stichera at the praises for Resurrectional matins in the sixth tone. Its melody is somewhat rarely used on other feasts for stichera at “Lord, I Call” and the praises.
Optina hermitage chant [MIDI]
Kiev Caves Lavra chant [MIDI]
Znamenny chant [MIDI]

Today Judas Keeps Watch

Σήμερον γρηγορεῖ ὁ Ἰούδας/Днесь бдит Иуда

This is the sixth antiphon at Matins of Great Friday. Its melody is used for various other stichera on weekdays of tone 7. It is otherwise rarely, if ever, encountered.
Byzantine chant [MIDI]

By Conceiving the Wisdom

Τὴν Σοφίαν καὶ Λόγον/Премудрость и Слово

This sessional hymn is appointed for matins of the Tuesday of Cheesefare Week. The melody is very widely used for sessional hymns/kathismata.

As far as I know, no setting of this melody exists in the traditions of Rus’, but it is well known in Bulgarian and Byzantine settings.
Bulgarian chant [MIDI]

O Most Glorious Wonder

Ὢ τοῦ παραδόξου θαύματος/О преславнаго чудесе

This hymn in the eighth tone is sung at the praises on the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. Its melody is widely used for sticheral hymns.

There is some confusion between this melody (in tone 8) and “O Marvelous Wonder” in tone 1. In Greek, both have the same name (though different meter); but in Slavonic they received different names, which is reflected in the English titles used here.
Carpathian prostopinije [MIDI]
Optina hermitage chant [MIDI]
Znamenny chant [MIDI]
Kiev Caves Lavra chant [MIDI]

The Paradise of Eden

Ὁ ἐν Ἐδὲμ Παράδεισος/Еже древле во Едеме

This hymn is one of the stichera at the aposticha of Wednesday matins during weeks of the eighth tone. This melody is called for relatively rarely for other sticheraric hymns.

This melody seems to be unknown in the traditions of Rus, but it is readily available in the Greek chant-books.
Byzantine chant [MIDI]

The Universe Offers to Thee

Ὡς ἀπαρχὰς τῆς φύσεως/Яко начатки естества

This hymn is the kontakion of Sunday of All Saints. Its melody is also used for several other kontakia.
Galician chant [MIDI]

Thou, the Life of All, Art Risen

Ἀνέστης ἐκ νεκρών/Воскреслъ еси

This text is the first sessional hymn at the first psalter reading on Sundays of tone 8. In the Russian books it is marked as a samopodoben/automelon, but the Greek books give no designation at all. However, in Greek, this text has the exact same meter and syllable count as “The piping of the shepherds,” which is one of the sessional hymns/kathismata appointed for matins of December 20. Therefore one might say that this samopodoben designation is a surrogate for that hymn; it would therefore be entirely appropriate to sing any sessional hymn with the podoben “The piping of the shepherds” to this melody.
Kiev Caves Lavra chant [MIDI]

When the Bodiless One

Τὸ προσταχθὲν μυστικῶς/Повеленное тайно

This hymn is sung as the troparion/apolytikion of the Saturday of the Akathist Hymn. Its melody is used by various other troparia/apolytikia, kontakia, and kathismata/sedalny.
Kiev Caves Lavra chant [MIDI]