Frequently service books in use within the BCC come without music, but advise users what Tone Number to use for a specific tropar, etc. I have resorted to setting various hymns to the appropriate tone in a music program for unison congregational singing (my parish's way) rather than trying to spontaneously render the tone. Besides, that way we sometimes have additional music for parishioners in the pews (though not always).

I used to us the program Mozart , but a year or so back began using Finale .

I suspect that there are other cantors out there who have been making their own arrangements where there were none available, though maybe with programs different from the ones I use.

If you have either of the programs I use, I can email you what I have done as attachments that can be downloaded to your own program copy for use. I could download from your email if I knew you had the same programs I do, and what prayers you had already written out. In this way cantors all over the country could share their homegrown materials.

If there is an interest in doing the above, I will post a list of what I have written in Mozart and Finale respectively as a subsequent message on this thread. I would also appreciate it if others did the same, once they find others here who are using the same program they are using.

Jim Sprinkle, Cantor
St. Thomas BCC, Gilbert AZ

Either everyone is too busy to add to this thread, or very few are using music software nowadays. Can't say as I blame them, as none of the programs are particularly user-friendly.

Jim,

I've done a few pieces using Finale, almost exlcusively Galician chant and Ukrainian text. The first exception which comes to mind is Agni perthene in Church Slavonic (CS orthography). As most of the litugical work I do is with a small group of singers (or just myself) I tend to stress learning the tones and then marking phrases in the texts - writing out music for every tropar, kondak, stykhyra, etc. is time consuming. I'm not 100% against the idea, but in my particular circumstances it is not the best option. OTOH, if I did this for a living . . . :rolleyes:

Хрїстосъ воскрεсε изъ мєртвыхъ, смεртїю на смεрть наступи, и грωбнымъ животъ дарова!

Xpucmoc Bockpece

Dobrij Rano Kobzar/Good Morning Kobzar

I noticed in you entry the use of the Old Believers' translation of troparion " Xpucmoc Bockpece ". It has been so long since I heard it for I remember this from my baba. This is how she taught us to sing!!!!!! but, were re-taught in church to use the newer/Old Slavonic ( Now is something "newer-old" ! May I ask if you are a memeber of the Old Believers?

Z Bohom
Nycholaij