Divine Liturgy book

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I ordered (and will hopefully receive today) a book containing the text and chants for the Divine Liturgies of Saints Chrysostom and Basil. How do you set this up before Liturgy so you can follow along?
 
OK. I’ve seen that one at Byzantine Catholic parishes. That is really comprehensive. Ask either Father or the cantor which chants are commonly used.

This is what St. John the Baptist BCC in Pottstown PA puts in their bulletin (it’s for today & tomorrow):

Divine Liturgy this Weekend
Changeable Parts: Large Green Book: Tone 7 p.156
Opening Hymn: Red Book: The Choirs of Angels Sing p. 169
Closing Hymn : Large Green Book: Beneath Your Compassion p. 454 (B)
 
Thanks. I’ll try and arrive early and ask someone (the bishop is coming tomorrow, if I remember correctly, so things might be a little busier than normal).
 
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The one here. It’s the one that the parish I go to uses.
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That one is really for cantors. There is a more useful and comprehensible softbound that you can follow along.

When the DL was revised, for reasons that non-cantors cannot explain, both were priced the same to encourage parishes to buy the hardbound. It has every musical setting for every part, basically. So about eight of everything (but ten for the Lord’s Prayer), followed by an arrow with “go to page N” (which is correct something like 80% of the time . . .

Normal people who don’t read music tend to be better off with the softbound.
 
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Thom18:
The one here. It’s the one that the parish I go to uses.
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That one is really for cantors. There is a more useful and comprehensible softbound that you can follow along.

When the DL was revised, for reasons that non-cantors cannot explain, both were priced the same to encourage parishes to buy the hardbound. It has every musical setting for every part, basically. So about eight of everything (but ten for the Lord’s Prayer), followed by an arrow with “go to page N” (which is correct something like 80% of the time . . .

Normal people who don’t read music tend to be better off with the softbound.
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The hardcover fills every pew of my parish. I’ll have to ask about it.
 
We ordered them.

We finally decided enough is enough, and ordered the softbound.

I know that I brought a pen and crossed out wrong jumps with the right ones . . .
 
I’m curious, @Margaret_Ann: Why so many colored books for DL? Would it be too big of a Tome if it was all condensed into a single volume?
 
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The red book is the prior version of the liturgy, while the two current books are the softbound which has almost everything, and the green which is really a compilation of all the different tones that can be used, and is really for cantors.

I’m not sure whether the soft one has all ove the troparion, etc., but it would certainly be practical in something the size of the red book (which did).
 
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What are the Tones?
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There are eight numbered chant tones (kind of like tunes, patterns of notes), some used seasonally, and some that rotate in other manners. Often, all but tone 1 get neglected.

In the green book, almost everything is printed with the musical notation for all eight, using pages instead paragraphs.

I’m not the best one to talk about when they’re used, for the simple reason that I’m the next thing short of tone deaf; I could tell that they changed a few years ago in the revisions, but I couldn’t tell you the difference, and probably would never notice if the older ones were used.
 
That’s pretty cool, @dochawk. Thanks. It was a beautiful link a poster here gave in reply to me. I think I’d love to worship in a DL someday.
 
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