Hello,
I realize that not many churches using Byzantine chant actually sing/read the Canon beyond the Katavasiae, but for those who do (and even if you don't, constructive criticism would be much appreciated), here are the Irmoi of the Pl. IV Resurrection Canon. This is used on Sundays (and I believe Wednesdays and Thursdays as well) when the mode of the week is Pl. IV, and is also used frequently in the Menaion for various canons of saints.
Thankfully, for odes 1, 4, 5, and 9, the Holy Transfiguration translation was metrically based on the Greek original, so for these odes I was able to use most of the music from the Anastasimatarion. In ode 9, I included an alternate setting of one phrase because the word "choirs" only works metrically if treated as two syllables. And it doesn't sound too bad as such; however, the word is, properly speaking, really only one syllable, so I included music for both possibilities.
Anthony
I realize that not many churches using Byzantine chant actually sing/read the Canon beyond the Katavasiae, but for those who do (and even if you don't, constructive criticism would be much appreciated), here are the Irmoi of the Pl. IV Resurrection Canon. This is used on Sundays (and I believe Wednesdays and Thursdays as well) when the mode of the week is Pl. IV, and is also used frequently in the Menaion for various canons of saints.
Thankfully, for odes 1, 4, 5, and 9, the Holy Transfiguration translation was metrically based on the Greek original, so for these odes I was able to use most of the music from the Anastasimatarion. In ode 9, I included an alternate setting of one phrase because the word "choirs" only works metrically if treated as two syllables. And it doesn't sound too bad as such; however, the word is, properly speaking, really only one syllable, so I included music for both possibilities.
Anthony
