Obikhod (or Obikhodnik)
[Book of Common Chants]
Great Vespers:
- Come, let us worship...
- Psalm 103
- 1st Kathisma (all 3 Stases)
- Lord, I have cried... (Psalms 140, 141, 129 & 116) in the 8 Tones
- The Refrain melody and the 1st Sticheron for Sunday in all 8 Tones, in the
Small Znamenny Chant (used to demonstrate the melodic formulas)
- The Podobny (Samopodobny) in the 8 Tones (used to demonstrate the melodic
formulas)
- O gentle light... (various melodies)
- The daily Prokeimena (various melodies)
- selected Litya Stichera for Greats Feasts
- (Now lettest Thou Thy servant depart...)
- The Troparion at the blessing of bread: Rejoice, Virgin Theotokos, Mary
full of grace... (various melodies)
- Blessed be the name of the Lord... (various melodies)
Sunday Midnight Office:
- Zadostoiniki after the canon to the Trinity
Great Compline (at the Vigils for the Nativity, Theophany and Annunciation):
- God is with us...
- The Troparia following "God is with us..."
Matins:
- Alleluia, the final time following the Six Psalms (various melodies)
- God is the Lord... in the 8 Tones
- The ending (final cadence) for the Troparia in the 8 Tones
- Alleluia in the 8 Tones
- The Kathismata for the days of the week, musical settings
- The 17th Kathisma and Evlogitaria
- The Polieleos
- The Megalynaria/Velichanii and selected psalms for all the feasts and for
general categories of saints (in Znamenny and Put' chants)
- The refrains after the 50th Psalm and for the 9th ode of the canon (for
the few feasts which have them; various melodies)
- The 1st Antiphon in Tone 4 (Great Znamenny Chant for great feasts)
- The Sunday Prokeimena in the 8 Tones
- Let every breath... (various melodies)
- The sticheron after the Gospel reading: Having beheld the resurrection of
Christ... (Tone 7)
- Verses after the 50th Psalm (Znamenny and Put' chants)
- Christ hath risen from the dead... (Tone 6, various melodies)
- We praise, we bless... after the 8th ode of the canon, in the 8 Tones
- The Magnificat after the 8th Ode
- It is truly meet... sung after the canon (various melodies)
- Zadostoiniki (Katavasii) for the Great Feasts (Put' Chant, Great Znamenny
Chant, etc.)
- Holy is the Lord our God, in the 8 Tones (various melodies)
- The Svetilny for the feasts and for Sundays
- The Praises
- The Great Doxology (various melodies)
- at the Vigils for the Nativity, Theophany and Annunciation: the Epistle
and Gospel sequence (Prokeimena; Alleluia; Glory to Thee, O Lord.)
The Divine Liturgy (selections only; see the Obednitsa for the complete text):
- O Only-begotten Son... (various melodies)
- The Troparia and Kontakia of the Great Feasts (and some middle rank feasts)
- Gospel sequence: Glory to Thee, O Lord (various melodies)
- It is truly meet... (various melodies)
Moleben:
- O Lady, receive the prayers... (Zadostoinik; various melodies)