The Tone 2 Samohlasen Melody
Examples
Use the music and recordings on this page to help you learn the Tone 2 samohlasen melody.
The Lamp-lighting Psalms on Saturday evening
As the church is incensed and the lamps are lit, we sing the first two verses of Psalm 140 to the samohlasen sticheron melody in the Tone of the first sticheron; on Saturday evening, this will almost always be in the Tone of the Week. Here is how these verses are sung in Tone 2.
After a series of recited (i.e., simply chanted) verses, we begin singing the stichera. Here are the first four Sunday stichera of the Resurrection in Tone 2, together with the psalm verses that would ordinarily come before each one..
The last three Sunday stichera in Tone 2 can be found in the MCI Sunday Vespers book, and there are always added at least three stichera from the Menaion for the saint of the day.
Finally, we sing "Glory, now and ever" to the samphlasen verse melody, and the dogmatikon in Tone 2 to the samohlasen sticheron melody.
The Lord's Prayer
Our Divine Liturgies book provides settings of the Lord's Prayer in all eight samohlasen tones. Here is the Our Father in Tone 2:
