Byzantine music sheets

[AveMaria12]

I am looking for some Byzantine music sheets (preferably polyphonic). Thank-you

 

[wynd]

stanthonysmonastery.org/music/JohnchrysB.htm

 

[Symeon]

Maybe you could be more specific so we can help. The term “Byzantine” when applied to liturgical chant is used in multiple ways, but generally, “Byzantine” music means that from the Greek tradition, and the above poster replied with a link to an excellent site on Greek chant. However Greek chant is not polyphonic.

So perhaps you meant music from some other Church that uses the Byzantine rite. Each particular Church has its own chant traditions, e.g. Russian, Ukrainian, Carpatho-Rusyn, etc…

 

[AveMaria12]

Maybe you could be more specific so we can help. The term “Byzantine” when applied to liturgical chant is used in multiple ways, but generally, “Byzantine” music means that from the Greek tradition, and the above poster replied with a link to an excellent site on Greek chant. However Greek chant is not polyphonic.

So perhaps you meant music from some other Church that uses the Byzantine rite. Each particular Church has its own chant traditions, e.g. Russian, Ukrainian, Carpatho-Rusyn, etc…

Anything Eastern will do for me. =)

 

[Symeon]

Anything Eastern will do for me. =)

Well… Something simple like this:

(The Our Father setting by Rimsky-Korsakov. The video is from an OCA parish, but we also use if frequently at my Russian Greek-Catholic Parish.)

youtube.com/watch?v=3Xx9TCp8c6M

sheet music for it here: stseraphim.org/files/music/Our-Father-Rimsky.pdf
(Except it says “debts” instead of debtors.

Here are some links to sheet music mostly from the Russian tradition. There are Orthodox site, but we use exactly the same music and prayers in the Russian Greek-Catholic Church.

stseraphim.org/choir.html

From the OCA site:

oca.org/liturgics/music-downloads

There is also a very nice tutorial on how to sing the sitchera for some tones. There is an analysis of each melody, and separate recordings for SATB where each voice is highlighted separately.

oca.org/liturgics/learning-the-tones

From the Carpatho-Rusyn tradition, explore the Metropolitan Cantor Institute site, for the Byzantine-Ruthenian Catholic Church in the US.

metropolitancantorinstitute.org/

Most of the sheet music there is only the melody, though. But there is one pdf with parts of the Divine Liturgy harmonized for SATB:

metropolitancantorinstitute.org/sheetmusic/general/DivineLiturgiesSATB.pdf

 

[Symeon]

Anything Eastern will do for me. =)

And I can’t resist including “The Noble Joseph”, such a a beautiful chant we sing at Vespers on Holy Friday. I look forward to singing it every year. The same youtuber I linked above also has a video of a parish choir singing it here:

youtube.com/watch?v=9su_FNDiVEQ

Sheet music here:

orthodoxbutler.org/files/Music/The-Noble-Joseph.pdf

The text of the chant:

The noble Joseph, when he had taken down thy most pure body from the tree,
Wrapped it in fine linen and anointed it with spices
And placed it in a new tomb.

The Angel came to the myrrh bearing women at the tomb and said:
Myrrh is fitting for the dead,
But Christ has shown Himself a stranger to corruption

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit
Now and ever and unto ages ages.