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I'm would like to know if somebody could help me out with liturgical sheet music for a men's choir.
I'm a conductor of a small Ukrainian male choir and we are beginners.

I assume you read Ukrainian? The "Svichado" books (the Studite printing house in Univ/Lviv) from Ukraine can be obtained through the Basilian Press in Toronto (you might be able to get them there in Brazil, I don't know) have a good selection of common and festal musical settings for the Divine Liturgy. The "Tserkovnij Naspivi" with the green hard cover by Svichado has the eight resurrectional tones, prokimen and alleluia melodies, samohlasni, bulharski, and proper irmosi for most of the feast days as well as proper parts for the Divine Liturgies of St. John Chrysystom, Basil and the Presanctified Gifts.

Some other melodies like the Paschal Kanon of St. John of Damascus, samopodobny for Molebens, basic music for parastas and panakhida and other miscellania are also included in this book. Not a bad place to start for liturgical musical needs, but all in Ukrainian.
Subdeacon Randolph, a sinner

There is a very nice library of choral music and some chant (Carpatho-Russian) at
http://www.saintmichaels.info/music/

The OCA home page also now has a nice music link, with a some Galician chant among other styles. (It's nice to see also that the Kondak in CR tone 8 still survives as a vestige of their CR heritage.)

These sites have SATB settings, but, as a start, it's not too hard to swap the lines and transpose for TTBB.

Do any Eastern Catholic churches have such a on-line library? Anyone interested in getting this going? (Anyone know about copyright laws?)

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Rose

I would like to thank all of you for your help. I'm sure that the information that all of you have given me will help me out.
God bless all of you.
Lauro

Here is some music from the OCA's Diocese of SF and the West-it should have more traditional language than the SVS stuff posted on the OCA's website, though I don't know how much of it is traditional CR.


http://www.ocadow.org/diocese/departments/liturgical-music.html


In Christ,

MK