{"id":1714,"date":"2026-07-24T23:25:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2026-07-24T23:26:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:26:51","slug":"chant-works-tone-7-prokeimenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/chant-works-tone-7-prokeimenon\/","title":{"rendered":"Chant Works: Tone 7 Prokeimenon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is one of the most florid and complicated prokeimenon melodies in the prostopinije <\/em>tradition. But for reasons you’ll see, this will probably be one of the shortest and simplest entries in the Chant Works<\/a> series on the Eight Tones melodies for the Divine Liturgy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Tone 7 prokeimenon and Alleluia in the 1906 Prostopinije<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Here is the Sunday prokeimenon in Tone 7 from the 1906 Tserkovnoje Prostopinije <\/em><\/a>or \u201cChurch Plain Chant\u201d of Bok\u0161ai and Malini\u010d:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Each has three parts, but there is a bit of a mismatch; the Alleluia leaves out of the “middle” part of the prokeimenon and divides the first part into two. But they are very recognizably the same melody!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tone 7 prokeimenon and Alleluia in English<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

At this point, you will probably NOT be surprised that the first official English settings of the Tone 7 prokeimenon and Alleluia substantially shortened their melodies; you can find them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here they are in the 2006 Divine Liturgies book:<\/p>\n\n\n

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You can see and listen to all the Tone 7 prokeimena in the Divine Liturgies book here: Tone 7 prokeimena examples<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prokeimenon of the Ascension<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As you look through the prokeimenon at the above link, one stands out as being noticeably different; it is the Tone 7 prokeimenon for the Ascension of the Lord. Here is the official English version; it is sung at several points in the Divine Liturgy of this feast.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This particular prokeimenon has its own special setting in the 1906 Prostopinije<\/em>, at the bottom of page 93<\/a> in the section of music for the Ascension. So here the English follows that variant melody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is one of the most florid and complicated prokeimenon melodies in the prostopinije tradition. But for reasons you’ll see, this will probably be one of the shortest and simplest entries in the Chant Works series on the Eight Tones melodies for the Divine Liturgy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}