ORTHROS ANASTASIMATARION OF NICHOLAS ROUBANIS
IN
GREEK WITH PHONETIC TRANSLITERATION IN STAFF NOTATION
(SOURCE: THE 1895 ANASTASIMATARION OF ANDREAS TSIKNOPOULOS)
EDITED AND ENGRAVED BY S. J. TAKIS FROM THE HAND-WRITTEN
ORIGINAL
VERSION 2.0 -- NEWLY CORRECTED, IMPROVED, AND UPDATED
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for the Cover and Preface
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THE COMPLETE
ORTHROS BOOK IN ONE FILE, (5 MB)
To properly use the Resurrectional Orthros Anastasimatarion
above, one must have information of which row of the four columns to use on a
particular Sunday. This information can be found in a book produced by the
Patriarchate called “The Typikon,” which gives the
Church instructions on which hymns and readings are set for each day of the
year.
COLUMNS ONE AND FOUR: There
is an eight-week cycle of hymns based upon the eight tones (or modes) of the Octoechos. The cycle begins with First Tone during the
first week of Pascha. After that, each week goes on to the next tone until the
cycle finishes with Plagal Fourth Tone and then begins again at First Tone. The
cycle is repeated throughout the church year. Chanters must know which tone is
scheduled for each Sunday, then chant the
corresponding Resurrectional hymns of the First
Column above. Also, the Great Doxology listed in Column Four, which ends the
Orthros service, generally is chanted in the tone of the week on Sundays. On
some major feast days, the Doxology may be chanted in the tone of the
doxasticon at the end of the Praises (Ainoi), however.
COLUMN TWO: The singing of Canons (sets of Odes based on the Nine Canticles of
the Bible) is an ancient tradition of the Orthros service. Usually on Sundays,
the Church reduces the chanting of the Canons to just one verse from each ode.
These are known as the Katavasias. Which
set of Katavasias to chant depends on which festal
season or day the particular Sunday falls upon. If there is no feast,
then the Katavasias at the top of Column Two, those
of the Theotokos, are chanted. It is necessary to consult the Typikon to know which feast may be celebrated on the day of
the service to know which of the rest of the Katavasias
sets in the clolumn should be substituted. On certain
feast days, other canons may be added.
COLUMN THREE: The Eothinon refers to one of the eleven Gospel passages where
Christ appears on earth after His Resurrection. These eleven gospel readings
are rotated through the year on an 11-week cycle, much like the 8-week cycle of
the Octoechos described above and there are certain Resurrectional hymns attached to each of them, notably the exapostelarion and the doxasticon. So a chanter must know
which of the rows in Column Three is attached to the service of that particular
day, and the number will not always coincide with the tone of the week.
In sum, only one row of each
of the four columns will be used on any given Sunday, and the rows of the two
inner columns will not necessarily line up with each other or the two outer
columns. Putting together an Orthros service is an important part of a
chanter’s duties, and although in our modern electronic era, there are
computer-generated websites that do all the work, it is still important for the
chanters to know what they are chanting and why, in order to convey the hymns
effectively.
ORTHROS HYMNS IN ENGLISH AND GREEK
Standard text and music in English (and some Greek) of the Sunday Resurrection Orthros service. It has the parts of the Orthros which normally do not change from week to week with explicit instructions on how to construct the service based upon the tone of the week and the proper hymns of the feast. The book serves not only as a practical resource for chanting Sunday Orthros, but also as an Orthros instruction manual. If this book is printed with two-sided sheets, make sure the even-numbered pages are on the left and the odd-numbered pages are on the right, like a standard printed book, so that hymns can be inserted between the proper pages.
Katavasias of
Pascha in English
Great Doxology in 1st Tone - English
Great Doxology in 3rd Tone by Sakellarides
in Greek and English
Great Doxology in Plagal 1st Tone –
Greek
Great Doxology in Plagal 1st Tone –
English
Great Doxology in the
Plagal 2nd Tone
For the Great Friday evening
Lamentations service (Greek only)
Great Doxology in the Plagal 4th
Tone
in Greek and English