Although I am not Orthodox but Greek Catholic, we do use the same liturgy. I can assure you Vasily is right about the length of vigils. In the eastern churches less may be more, but more is better. :-)

The 1934 Antiphonale Monasticum is another, if you don't mind following the monastic practice.

I'm currently compiling congregational booklets for the Liturgy of the Hours, using Gregorian chant. It's still a work in progress, but I attached a first attempt - not complete yet (the reason becomes clear in what follows) - so you can see if it is of any use.

I'm following the Ordo Cantus Officii and, like others in this thread, I'm starting to wonder whether those who put the Ordo together ever thought the Liturgia Horarum should actually be sung: many antiphons are hard to find, some aren't even associated with any existing music. Luckily, a couple of gaps are now filled by the new three volume Antiphonale Monasticum, but I'm eagerly awaiting a new edition of the Antiphonale Romanum.

For instance, the second Vespers of the first Sunday of Advent already gives a problem. The second antiphon is Rex noster and CAO number 2655 is given as a reference (from texts of office chants edited in R.-J. Hesbert's Corpus Antiphonalium Officii, vols. 3+4). However, according to this CAO search, CAO 2655 is the antiphon Erat Jesus docens (quite unlikely for Advent), while Rex noster is an invitatorium antiphon with CAO 1155. Typo? The latter is found in The Poissy Antiphonal, but the mode is unclear to me (note that, when the chant continues on the next folio, the F-clef is changed into a C-clef).

I'm now making a list for Sunday Lauds and Vespers with the chants according to the Ordo Cantus Officii and references to modern chant books (if available). As soon as this list is finished, I'll post it here.

Remember that the LotH is not an obligation of the laity. I'm actually considering looking into some medieval offices since there is no restriction that I can discern. If one wanted to implement for parish regular use - in Latin - I would recommend the 1962 Office for consistency with the Mass. I don't feel that there is any need to do the modern LotH in Latin. I would only use this IMO inferior Office if I were required to do it in the vernacular. I recommend Dobzay's chapter on the Office in The Bugnini Liturgy..

The TLM schola in Boston, Schola Amicorum, sang Vespers from it every week for years during our rehearsals. (Alas, we stopped some years ago.) Like many one-volume office books, it requires a lot of flipping around.

Dvalerio

that is very close to a perfect solution except for the fact that it is in French. Thnx. I am going to print the Antiphonale today and begin there.

These eight hours were known by the following names:

Matins (during the night), sometimes referred to as Vigils or Nocturns, or in monastic usage the Night Office; it is now called the Office of Readings
Lauds or Dawn Prayer (at Dawn)
Prime or Early Morning Prayer (First Hour = 6 a.m.)
Terce or Mid-Morning Prayer (Third Hour = 9 a.m.)
Sext or Midday Prayer (Sixth Hour = 12 noon)
None or Mid-Afternoon Prayer (Ninth Hour = 3 p.m.)
Vespers or Evening Prayer ("at the lighting of the lamps")
Compline or Night Prayer (before retiring)
Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480 – 543) is credited with having given this organization to the Liturgy of the Hours. However, his scheme was taken from that described by John Cassian, in his two major spiritual works, the Institutes and the Conferences, in which he described the monastic practices of the Desert Fathers of Egypt.

Dvalerio

well, the antiphonale is free (except for printing) and I will be no worse off with nothing since French is Greek to me. Once the Les Heures Grégoriennes comes out with English translation I will probably buy it then.

wjcb

Do you have a link to the free versions!?!? I would really like to see that TODAY and possibly use tomorrow! Took me all last night to set tonight's office.

The Briggs and Frere uses the Church of England's edition of the Coverdale Psalter. Canon Douglas' work the Monastic Diurnal Noted, made use of the US Episcopalian edition of the Coverdale Psalter that smooths out some of the more obscure language. However, the example cited above is easily remedied and rendered as "Through thee have I been upheld ever since I was born..." which to my mind is very beautiful. One also could look at the widely used 1979 Book of Common Prayer Psalter for clarification, and with that reading at 71,6 in mind, one then could render it as Through thee have I been sustained ever since I was born ...

Both the Coverdale in the 1928 USA BCP edition and the 1979 BCP Psalter are found in our Book of Divine Worship.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is great! Thanks.

Most of the Briggs and Frere psalter is on http://sites.google.com/site/wjcbailey/home/plainchant-psalter (in addition to various other locations).

I suggest you look into Sunday Prime first; because the psalms and antiphon and are almost the only things that change, the rest of the hour is only given once. I found this booklet helpful: Learning the New Breviary.