Obikhod is the name for the collection of all liturgical chants of the Russian Orthodox Church. The chants are based on specific melodic phrases or modes, the so-called Octoechos. Since the Middle Age, they have formed the tonal system of the Old Russian liturgical chant, the Obikhod scale or mode being its basis. This mode I have been using several times in my works, as well as in this score.As is well known, Russian church music is by nature vocal. The four voices in “Obikhod” create the typic...

• I Kaya zhiteyskaya sladost'...
• II Svyatykh lik obrete istochnik...
• III Nyne... opushchayeshi...
• IV Blazheny nishchiye dukhom...
• V Vechnaya pamyat'...
• Raskatov on Obikhod