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For the musical setting by Rachmaninoff, see All-Night Vigil (Rachmaninoff)

The All-night vigil is a service of the Eastern Orthodox Church consisting of an aggregation of the three canonical hours of Vespers, Matins, and the First Hour. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов For the liturgical service see All-night vigil The All-Night Vigil (Всенощное бдение Vsenoshchnoe bdenie) Opus 37 The Eastern Orthodox Church is the second largest single Christian Communion in the world Canonical hours are divisions of time developed by the Christian Church, serving as increments between the prescribed Prayers of the daily round Vespers is the evening Prayer service in the Roman Catholic, Eastern (Byzantine Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox, liturgies of the Matins (also known as Orthros or Oútrenya in Eastern Churches) is the early morning or night Prayer service in the Roman Catholic Prime, or the First Hour, is a fixed time of prayer of the traditional Divine Office (Canonical Hours said at the first hour of daylight (approximately 600 a The vigil is celebrated on the eves of Sundays and of major liturgical feasts. [1]

The vigil has been set to music most famously by Sergei Rachmaninoff, whose setting of selections from the service is one of his most admired works. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов For the liturgical service see All-night vigil The All-Night Vigil (Всенощное бдение Vsenoshchnoe bdenie) Opus 37 Other musical settings include those by Chesnokov, Grechaninov, Ippolitov-Ivanov, Alexander Kastalsky[2], and Einojuhani Rautavaara. Pavel (Paul Grigorievich Tchesnokov (Russian Павел Григорьевич Чесноков) (1877&ndash1944 also transliterated Tschesnokoff, was a Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (also commonly transliterated as Aleksandr/Alexandre Grechaninov/Gretchaninoff/Gretschaninow Александр Тихонович Гречанинов Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov (Russian Михаил Михайлович Ипполитов-Иванов ( &ndash January 28, 1935) was a Russian Einojuhani Rautavaara ( (born October 9, 1928) is a Finnish Composer of Contemporary classical music, and is probably the best-known It is most often celebrated using a variety of traditional or simplified chant melodies based on the Octoechos or other sources. Chant (from Old French chanter) is the Rhythmic speaking or Singing of Words or Sounds often primarily on one or two Octoechos (also Octoichos; Greek:, meaning the "Eight Modes" is the fundamental structure for classifying and describing modes (

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Order

When celebrated at the All-night vigil, the orders of Great Vespers and Matins vary somewhat from when they are celebrated by themselves. [3][4] In parish usage, many portions of the service such as the readings from the Synaxarion during the Canon at Matins are abbreviated or omitted, and it therefore takes approximately two or two and a half hours to perform.

The Psalms cited below are numbered according to the Septuagint, which differs from that found in the Masoretic. The Septuagint (ˈsɛptuədʒɪnt or simply " LXX " is the Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, translated in stages between the The Masoretic Text ( MT) is the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible ( Tanakh)

Great Vespers

Matins

References

  1. ^ Dunlop, Carolyn C. The Gospel Book, or Book of the Gospels ( Greek:, Evangélion) is a Codex or bound volume containing one or more of the four Gospels An icon (from Greek εἰκών eikōn, "image" is a religious work of art most commonly a painting from Eastern Christianity. Axion estin ( Greek: Άξιον εστίν, Slavonic: Достóйно éсть Dostóino yesť) or It is Truly Meet, The Exapostilarion ( Greek: ἐξαποστειλάριον pl Lauds is one of the two "major hours" in the Roman Catholic Liturgy of the Hours. " Gloria in excelsis Deo " ( Latin for "Glory to God in the highest" is the title and beginning of a hymn known also as the Greater Doxology The Polychronion ( Greek: "many years" or "long-lived" literally "long-timed" Slavonic: mnyogaya lyeta) is a solemn Prime, or the First Hour, is a fixed time of prayer of the traditional Divine Office (Canonical Hours said at the first hour of daylight (approximately 600 a (2000). Music of the Russian court chapel choir: 1796-1917. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 58-59. ISBN 9789057550263.  
  2. ^ Zvereva, Svetlana (2003). Alexander Kastalsky: His Life and Music, translated by Stuart Campbell, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. , 124. ISBN 0754609758.  
  3. ^ The Order of Great Vespers. The Priest's Service Book. Diocese of the South. Retrieved on 2007-03-06. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar. 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of
  4. ^ The Order of Matins on Sundays and Feast Days. The Priest's Service Book. Diocese of the South. Retrieved on 2007-03-06. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar. 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of

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