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On the website [ metropolitancantorinstitute.org] of the Metropolitan Cantor Institute, you can now find the propers of Vespers for the feast of the holy archbishop Nicholas of Myra in Lycia, whose feast we celebrate tomorrow. The hymns are sung in harmonized prostopinije, and are taken from a recording distributed by the Byzantine Seminary Press. If anyone has pointers to other hymns or songs in honor of the saint, please post them here! Yours in Christ, Jeff Mierzejewski
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ByzKat,
I don't know if you have anything to do with the metropolitain cantor institutes website, but in the liturgical calander section the link to the propers for St. Nicholas's vespers links you to the propers for St. Andrew's vespers instead. It does the samething with the vespers for the feast of the Conception of St. Ann. Thank You and God Bless.
Jesse Venner
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Fixed, thanks! (I didn't remove the links after cut-and-paste in my HTML editor; the links will be made active if the sheet music is available at lunchtime.)
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Some very nice and easy to sing troparion/kontakion settings are available in PDF on the OCA website: http://www.oca.org/MDcontent.asp?SID=13&Month=December and scroll down to December 6th. Both the Okikhod and Greek chant versions are given with music.
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Dear All, For a wealth of information - history, customs, prayers, stories, activities - about St. Nicholas go here: http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=23 And a Happy & Blessed feastday of St. Nicholas to all of you at byzcath.org! PAX Benedictine O good Saint Nicholas, you who are the joy of the children, put in my heart the spirit of childhood, which the Gospel speaks, and teach me to seed happiness around me. You, whose feast prepares us for Christmas, open my faith to the mystery of God made man.
You, good bishop and shepherd, help me to find my place in the Church and inspire the church to be faithful to the gospel.
O good Saint Nicholas, patron of children, sailors and the helpless, watch over those who pray to Jesus, your Lord and theirs, as well as over those who humble themselves before you. Bring us all in reverence to the Holy Child of Bethlehem, where true joy and peace are found.
Amen.
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<singing at the top of my lungs>
O Kto, Kto, Nikolaya lubit!!!!
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Is Diak really suggesting that we sing the saint's troparion to the Obikhod chant? St Nicholas Orthodox Church out my way (OCA with no CR roots) sings it to prostopinije, thank God. (I was there to celebrate the feast, and after several rounds of "O kto kto" in English, I found a handful of people to do it in Slavonic.) Who ever thought that the "Obikhod" non-melody was adequate for festal troparia?
The alternative, the "shortened Greek Chant," while certainly quite simple, is not so dismally monotonous, and note that it is adapted to provide the bass line of the "Obikhod" version.
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Originally posted by Stephen R.:
Who ever thought that the "Obikhod" non-melody was adequate for festal troparia?
Stephen I am a fan of "Obikhod" chant. The harmonies, when executed correctly, make it glorious, and most suitable for feasts. the unworthy, Elias
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