Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts (Paperback)

This is the complete music and text for the Lenten liturgy of the presanctified gifts. Revised and updated, this volume includes several musical settings for all "sung" parts of the service and the musical arrangements include the traditional settings of the original chant melodies including Byzantine, Kievan, Anamenny and Carpatho-Russian as well as compositions by church composers such as Bortniansky, Lvovsky, Arkhangelsky and others. Several arrangements by contemporary church musicians are also included. This edition also includes rubrics and two appendices containing texts from the Triodon and the Octobechos.