This compilation has been compiled to make it easier for children in our parishes to sing. Practice shows that children in most cases, even without musical education, are able to learn a melody and sing in unison together. In this collection, such monophonic singing of the Liturgy by the children's choir is supported by the singing of an adult male or mixed choir. You can sing together, you can distribute the chants and their fragments for antiphonal singing.
The melodic basis of these chants is Znamenny, Byzantine chant, liturgical and chanting usage. In most cases, processing was done by the compiler of the collection.
The scores of the mixed and male choir are not always harmonically consistent with each other, consistent primarily with the melody of the children's choir. Therefore, when all three compositions sing together, the male composition in some chants can sing the male parts of the mixed choir. The general score is attached mainly for comparison and convenience of distribution of antiphonal singing. The presentation for the male composition is often in a rather low tessitura and an arrangement unusual for male liturgical and singing use. This is done for the sake of combining with the children's choir as support, not rivalry. In the case of independent performance of chants by a male choir, it is quite possible to use the score of a mixed choir with a transposition of the tonality by a fourth-fifth and a corresponding correction of the bass line.
I hope that the collection will be useful in parish work with children and in liturgical singing practice.
Children's Choir Sheet Music</p >
Individual parts of choirs (fragments of the Liturgy)</ p>
Head of the Regency Department of the Kharkov Theological Seminary
Archpriest Theodor Voskoboinikov