Unto the Mother of God

We rehearsed Arkhangelsky's Unto the Mother of God adapted by Michael Hilko today following trapeza. It is the troparion of the Canon to the Mother of God, which can be found here.

You can find one version of it here; its #5, and there is a midi for you to listen to. Its not exactly the same, but you get the general idea.

There is a clip of it here at #6.

We will rehearse this intensively for the next few weeks until we have it down pat, and then we will take it up again when we get close to St. Philip's Fast in November.

New Music

The new Let Our Mouths Be Filled that we will be working on can be found on page 351 of the "old" green liturgy book, and also here:

http://www.musicarussica.com/titledet.lasso?-database=musrus_titles&-response=titledet.lasso&-layout=Item_Detail&-op=eq&mus_rus_ID=%22HNP%20016%22&-search

If you click here, you will be taken to it. A window will pop up asking you to click to run an ActiveX control - go ahead and click yes, because that is what will allow you to listen to a choir singing this piece. You can also see a pdf of the music on this page as well.

We will also begin work on a special Theotokos hymn by John Warren which we will sing only during Advent. You can find it here:

http://www.musicarussica.com/titledet.lasso?-database=musrus_titles&-response=titledet.lasso&-layout=Item_Detail&-op=eq&mus_rus_ID=%22HNP%20009%22&-search

Just like the previous one, click here, and you will be taken to the ActiveX control which will allow you to listen to it. It is very, very beautiful, and will really add to our Advent Liturgy and make it special, since there is no specific Theotokos hymn specified in the rubrics, like there is during Great Lent.