Sacred Music Library
The Department of Sacred Music is pleased to offer free of charge to you the Liturgical Music PDF Library. For any comments or suggestions, please contact us.
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The music listed below is in alphabetical order according to either Title, or Season (like Lent or Feast Days), or is Grouped according to type of hymns (such as Antiphons, Communion Hymns, etc.). If it is a Group heading, click on the title of the Group, for example, "Annunciation to the Theotokos," and then all the hymns in that group will unfold under the title. Then click on the title of the hymn you wish to see or download.
To SEARCH for a particular hymn, you may either
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3) click on one of the Keywords in the table shown below, or in the right column next to each hymn.
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Alleluia
Sung in the key of G, for larger choirs. |
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Alleluia for warmup of voices
This Alleluia may be sung to warmup your voice before chanting and singing, as you pray at the same time. |
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I Leave You My Peace
May be sung as a recessional hymn. |
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History & Intonations of Many Years
A historical description and intonations of the singing of God Grant You Many Years |
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Menaion - 08 August
Festal hymnody from the Menaion for August. This music is from the Byzantine Menaion Project by Basil Kazan. The music is type-set, properly accented and barred, with ison, and rubrics and instructions added in, along with special melodies noted. Updated 8/3/17. |
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Menaion - 09 September
Festal hymnody from the Menaion for September. This music is from the Byzantine Menaion Project by Basil Kazan. The music is type-set, properly accented and barred, with ison, and rubrics and instructions added in, along with special melodies noted. Updated 9/14/17. |
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Menaion - 10 October
Festal hymnody from the Menaion for October. This music is from the Byzantine Menaion Project by Basil Kazan. The music is type-set, properly accented and barred, with ison, and rubrics and instructions added in, along with special melodies noted. |
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Menaion - 11 November
Festal hymnody from the Menaion for November. This music is from the Byzantine Menaion Project by Basil Kazan. The music is type-set, properly accented and barred, with ison, and rubrics and instructions added in, along with special melodies noted. Updated 11/2/17. |
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Menaion - 12 December
Festal hymnody from the Menaion for December. This music is from the Byzantine Menaion Project by Basil Kazan. The music is type-set, properly accented and barred, with ison, and rubrics and instructions added in, along with special melodies noted. Update 12/8/2020. |
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Polychronion for Metropolitan JOSEPH-Key of C
This may be sung at the end of a service when His Eminence, Metropolitan JOSEPH is presiding, in place of "Preserve, O Lord" (Ton Dhespotin). It is written in the key of C. |
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Praise Ye the Name of the Lord
Convention music-50 |
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Psalm 100
Make a joyful sound unto the Lord |
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Psalm 103 (102)
Bless the Lord, O my soul |
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Psalm 146 (145)
Kievan melody, Praise ye the Lord |
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Psalm 23 (22)
Kievan melody, The Lord is my shepherd |
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Psalm 34 (33)
Full psalm: I will bless the Lord at all times |
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Psalm 43 (42)
Kievan melody, Judge me, O God. |
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Psalm 67 (66)
Kievan melody, God be merciful unto us |
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Psalm 82 (81)
Kievan melody, God standeth in the congregation of the mighty |
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Psalm 86 (85)
Bow down thine ear, O Lord |
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Reception of a Bishop
This is the Heirmos of the 9th Ode of Palm Sunday, and is to be sung as the bishop is entering into the church, after the litany is done in the back of the church. Rubrics are listed. Updated 4/13/19. |
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They Shall Find Joy
Taken from Psalm 20 |
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Troparion of the Resurrection - Tone 1
Convention music-6.1 |
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Troparion of the Resurrection - Tone 2
Convention music-6.2 |
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Troparion of the Resurrection - Tone 3
Convention music-6.3 |
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Troparion of the Resurrection - Tone 4
Convention music-6.4 |
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Troparion of the Resurrection - Tone 5
Convention music-6.5 |
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Troparion of the Resurrection - Tone 6
Convention music-6.6 |
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Troparion of the Resurrection - Tone 7
Convention music-6.7 |
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Troparion of the Resurrection - Tone 8
Convention music-6.8 |
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Elisha (Elisseus), Troparion of
This troparion is sung on June 14. It is also the same troparion sung on July 20 for St. Elias. "The incarnate Angel, and the Prophets' summit and boast . . . ." Updated 11/10/19. |
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Martyr - For a woman, Apolytikion
General Troparion for any woman martyred saint; Special melody: "Joseph was amazed" (Dismissal hymn). "O Lord Jesus, unto Thee Thy lamb..." Updated 7/18/2022. |
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Martyr(s) - For a man, Troparion
General Troparion for any male martyred saint(s); special melody of Be quick to anticipate. "Thy martyr, O Lord . . . ." (Or, "Thy martyrs, O Lord . . . ." Updated 8/17/2022. |
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Who Is So Great A God
Great Prokeimenon sung at Vesper Service on the eve of the Sunday of Orthodoxy, Pascha (Agape), and Pentecost. There are two versions here: 1) Tradition, and 2) The combined Western & Byzantine version by Chadi Karam. File updated 6/8/2020. |