Downloadable Choir Music
Below is our growing collection of liturgical music for free download. Permission is granted to copy for liturgical usage.
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The careful composition of hymns into the English language and the typesetting of this music takes many hours of labor, however, and it is one of our goals at Anaphora Press to “pay the laborer worthy of his hire”. While most iconographers are able to realize some income from their craft, many Orthodox church musicians give countless unpaid hours to their artistry. .
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Please consider making a one-time or an ongoing donation specifically for this service. The more consistently we can pay our typesetters and composers, the more time they will be able to spend making music for us all to use. For the time being, donation checks can be sent to: Anaphora Press//3110 San Juan Ave.//Port Townsend, WA 98368. Please tag them as “Choir Music Donation”. In future we will have a donation button available here. Also, don’t forget to purchase our music collections, which contain some copyrighted pieces not included here and which also help to fund this project.
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Vespers
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Matins
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Divine Liturgy
Litanies
- “Old Russian” Litany.
- Litany of Fervent Supplication, Romanian
- St. Vlad’s “Lenten” Litany
- Trubachov Litany
Antiphons
- 2nd Antiphon, Byzantine
- Beatitudes - ‘Tula’ a simple 4-part Russian chant
Prokeimena
- Sunday Prok. & Alleluia, Obikhod
- Prok. for the Fathers (T4 Blessed art Thou, O Lord God…)
- Prok. for Priest-Martyr (T7 Let the saints be exalted in glory…)
- Prok. for Hierarchs (T7 Precious in the sight…)
- Prok. for a Hierarch (T1 My mouth shall speak wisdom…)
- Prok. for the Theotokos (T3 My soul doth magnify the Lord…)
Communion
- In everlasting remembrance shall the righteous be, Ps. 111
- Receive the Body, Alaskan
- One is Holy
- Praise the Lord from the Heavens
Lent
General
- Open to Me, Ledkovsky #2
- Lenten Dismissal Hymn
- Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete: Refrains
- Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete
Presanctified
- O Taste and See, Margitich
Sunday of the Cross
- Cross Stichera at LIHC (”Rejoice, O Life-bearing Cross…”)
- Koinonikon of the Cross
Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday
- Lazarus Saturday Canon, Russian 4-part
- Lazarus Saturday Exapostilarion, “Hearken ye Women”, 2-part
- Lazarus Saturday Troparion & Kontakion, simple Byzantine chant
- Lazarus Saturday Koinonikon (Communion Hymn), simple Byz.
- Palm Sunday Canon, 2-part Znamenny
- Palm Sunday Troparion, Carpatho-Russian
- Palm Sunday Koinonikon (Communion Hymn), simple Byz.
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Pascha
- Paschal Stichera, Znamenny, 4-part
Pentecostarion
Pentecost
- Stichera of Pentecost, T1 Byzantine
- Pentecost Festal Antiphons
- Troparion of Pentecost, T8 Byzantine
- Prok. of Pentecost, T8
2nd Sunday of Pentecost: All Saints of America
- Troparion All Saints of America T8 2-part Kievan chant
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Great Feasts
Nativity of the Theotokos (Sept. 8 )
Elevation of the Cross (Sept. 14)
Presentation of the Theotokos into the Temple (Nov. 21)
Nativity of Christ (Dec. 25)
- Dec. 21, Pre-feast Aposticha
- Pre-feast of the Nativity, Troparion
- Canon Odes 1-8, Carpatho-Russian, 2-part
- Canon Ode 9, Carpatho-Russian, pp. 1-3
- Canon Ode 9, Carpatho-Russian, pp. 4-5
- Canon Ode 9, Carpatho-Russian, 2-part
- Praises, Tone 4, Kievan Chant
- Nativity Prokeimenon
- Byzantine Nativity Carol (para-liturgical carol)
Circumcision of Christ/St. Basil (Jan. 1)
Theophany (Jan. 6)
- Paramia I (done in between the Old Testament readings)
- Paramia II
- Canon Ode 9
- Troparion, Byzantine
- Troparion, Obikhod
- Festal Antiphons
- Liturgy Prokeimenon
- Koinonikon (Communion Hymn), Byzantine
- Great Blessing of the Waters Stichera
Presentation (Meeting) of our Lord into the Temple (Feb. 2)
- Troparion of the Meeting in the Temple mp3
- Kievan Stichera LIHC, Feb. 2
- Doxastikon at LIHC, Feb. 2 (for use if feast falls on Sunday)
- Dogmatikon at LIHC, Feb. (for use if feast falls on Saturday or weekday)
Annunciation (March 25)
- Kontakion of the Annunciation, simple Byzantine
- Sessional Hymn for Matins, Carpatho-Russian
- Annunciation Magnification/Megalynarion
- Annunciation Exapostelarion (Hearken, O Ye Women, 2-part), 2-part Znamenny
Sts. Peter and Paul (June 29)
Transfiguration (August 6)
Dormition of the Theotokos (August 15)
Menaion
January
11 - St. Theodosius the Great
27 - St. John Chrysostom
- Troparion, Tone 8 Byzantine
- Kontakion, Tone 2, Obikhod
- Prokeimenon: Tone 1, Znamenny, My mouth shall speak wisdom….
June
9 – St. Columba
September
28-St. Khariton (Chariton)
November
30-Apostle Andrew
December
13-St. Herman
- St. Herman Troparion, Trinity-Lavra
- St. Herman Kontakion, Byzantine “To Thee the Champion”
- St. Herman LIHC Stichera Tone 6 “Having Set all your Hope”
- St. Herman Aposticha Tone 5 “Rejoice, O Life-bearing Cross”
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