All Creation Rejoices
O Tebe raduyetsia
by Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov
4-Part - Sheet Music

SATB choir (div)

SKU: MR.CN-081

O Tebe raduyetsia. Composed by Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov. Choral octavo. With Language: Church Slavonic. Musica Russica #CN 081. Published by Musica Russica (MR.CN-081).

All of Creation Rejoices is a setting of the special Hymn to the Theotokos (the Mother of God) that is sung at the Liturgy of St. Basil the Great, served ten times during the year. Chesnokov's setting may be described as a paraphrase of Pyotr Turchaninov's setting of the same text, which was the one most widely used in Russia during the nineteenth century. (Turchaninov's chant  arrangement is No. 66 in the anthology One Thousand Years of Russian Church Music, V. Morosan., ed., Musica Russica, 1991.) The connection is clearly established in the <cantus < substantially, reintroducing it briefly in mm. 1516, 27, and 4142, just enough to maintain the connection with the prototype. The most signi<