Reply To: Is the Sabaite Typikon the Liturgical Common Denominator?
Don’t worry, you are totally in the right place for this – I am an extreme Typikon nerd. Also, not to make a plug for Typikon 101, but we will go in depth about the Typikon of St. Sabbas (usually abbreviated TAS) and how it affected our current Typikon in that course (including the history of how we got the Typikon of St. Sabbas in the first place).
Essentially, you are correct. Every modern Typikon has as the TAS source and the challenge is how to condense it for parish usage. The Russians and Greeks/Antiochians basically have different ways of doing this. The Russian solution is essentially to shorten to reduce the amount of psalm verses (e.g. singing 10 certain verses of the polyeleos) whereas the Greek solution is to read the psalms or eliminate them entirely (e.g. the polyeleos is almost never done in a Greek parish). This is partly because the moveable hymns take much longer in a Greek parish due to the style of chant.