Ирмологион
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The Irmologion contains for the moving and fixed days of worship those prayers, changeable and some unchangeable, which are designated by the Orthodox Church for singing (and not for reading) during worship. The contents of the Irmologion are mainly extracted from various liturgical books, it contains:
1) Irmos, from which Irmologii received its name.
2) All those prayers that are sung by singers at liturgies - St. Basil the Great, St. John Chrysostom and the Presanctified Gifts.
3) At Vespers before the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, psalms 140, 141 “I have cried to the Lord” and Psalm 129 “I have cried from the depths” and instructions on how to sing the verses of the psalms with stichera. “Quiet light”, etc. Dogmatists are Mother of God, Mother of God is when there is Glory to the Saint.
4) Trinity voices; at Matins: “God is the Lord” or “Hallelujah.”
5) Hymns sung before and after the reading of the Gospel, namely: a) Sunday troparia, sung according to “Immaculate”, polyeleos, Sunday morning prokemenas in eight voices; b) the song “Having seen the Resurrection of Christ”; c) the troparion “The Apostle Through Prayers” and sung instead - a) the troparion “Open to me of repentance” 14; b) special verses for some feasts of the Lord and the Mother of God.
6) Songs of Holy Scripture, called “prophetic” 15, which are sung before the canon. At the same time, it is indicated how the verses of these songs are sung or, in the words of the Typikon, in conjunction with the troparia of the canons - on non-holiday days, on holidays and on Lent, in other words, it is shown what it means to verse “We sing to the Lord” and “We sing to the Lord” and when both verses occur. An indication of the difference between one and the other verse is found only in the Irmologion.
7) Choruses for the ninth hymn of Matins, sung on the feasts of the Lord and the Mother of God.
8) The chant “Let every breath praise the Lord” and “Praise the Lord from heaven” and an indication of how and when both are sung. Then - the stichera “Blessed are you, the Mother of God” and the great doxology. Easter service, troparia sung according to “Immaculate” for the departed.