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Dedication of a Church and an Altar - chants

June 5, 2013, 5:26 am
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Can anybody post or know where I can easily find the chant antiphons for the Mass of Dedication (not anniversary Mass, the actual Mass where the building and altar are dedicated)?

Thanks!
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“Dada…that’s Jesus music”

June 5, 2013, 6:39 am
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Gregorian Chant Will Save the World

“A few weeks ago, I was sitting at the computer while my two-year-old son noisily played with some tupperware behind me. I clicked on a link to listen to a song from “Angels and Saints at Ephesus”, a new CD by the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of the Apostles (which, incidentally, has been tearing up the Classical music charts). The beautiful, a capella voices of the Sisters came softly over the computer speakers as they began a Gregorian chant in Latin.Suddenly, I noticed that the banging of tupperware behind me had stopped.

I turned to see my two-year-old, standing, staring at the computer, eyes wide open and mouth slightly agape. He took a few steps forward, and then said, breathlessly: “Dada…that’s Jesus music.”

I was stunned. How on earth did he know that? (Our parish certainly doesn’t do any chanting at the N.O. Mass we attend…). He crawled up into my lap, and we listened to the rest of the chant together. And then we listened to it again. And then again. And then again. My boy was totally captivated, totally transfixed, totally enraptured…each time the chant would come to an end, he would look up at me and plead “again, Dada?”

I bought the album, and now every night my son asks to listen to the “Jesus music” as he falls asleep…


more here

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2013/06/guest-post-gregorian-chant-will-save-the-world/



May we have pure hearts of the children who recognize the pure beauty of Heaven..
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Antiphons

June 5, 2013, 1:51 pm
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Does anybody know of an online resource that has free pdf or picture files of all the Entrance & Communion Antiphons for Sundays and Feasts?
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New Tool for Gregorian Propers

June 7, 2013, 8:17 am
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The propers tool that I began work on about a week ago has become useful enough that I thought it would be worthwhile to advertise its existence. It is a tool for producing PDFs of the propers for Sunday masses in the extraordinary form and will also allow you to apply psalm tones to the propers a la Rossini. I think it should be straightforward enough to use, but let me know if anyone has any further ideas or suggestions for it.

I have also included this propers tool in the latest version of the offline GABC Transcription Tools app for Chrome.
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"Pride of place"

June 8, 2013, 4:47 pm
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Compline on Vatican Radio

June 8, 2013, 4:51 pm
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Proofreaders needed at GregoBase

June 10, 2013, 5:00 pm
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Two Questions on Vespers II of the Solemnity of Christ the King

June 10, 2013, 2:07 pm
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I have been listening to the choir podcast from the Pontifical North American college (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pontifical-north-american/id595144587?mt=2) and have developed two questions which I hope readers can help me understand.

Firstly, where can I find the melodies for the Alleluia Canticle used in Vespers II for this day (and others). I have seen several texts which have different melodies (Mundelein Psalter/Steven van Roode). None of these match the melody used by the PNAC in their podcast "Habet in Vestimento (Canticle)" or are even in the same mode (VII). Les Heures Gregoriennes seems to imply that the canticle is sung to the psalm tone as the other psalms and canticles are but this seems a little odd due to the repeating Alleluias. Is this just another hole in the modern Gregorian repetoire?

Secondly, I noticed that in Steven van Roode's pdfs he lists "Habet in Vestimento" as the Magnificat antiphon with other antiphons ad. lib. for years B and C. However, the PNAC and Les Heures Gregoriennes seem to agree that "Habet in Vestimento" is the Canticle antiphon in the Psalter and the Magnificiat antiphon is "Data est Mihi" with no options for years B and C.

I do not own a copy of the Antiphonale Romanum so I am not sure what is included there.

Thanks.
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Church Construction to Amplify A Cappella

June 12, 2013, 2:27 pm
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My name is George Dawson. I am a volunteer with the National Park Service at the San Antonio Missions National Historic Park. I spend one day a week as a docent at the oldest (1755) unreconstructed stone Spanish Colonial Church in the US.
Recently an a cappella group performed in the church. The showed me the "hot spot." Standing in that place noticeably amplified their voices. Five sounded like ten. I would like to explain to visitors how this effect is achieved. What elements of the church's design might I look for? Are there specific proportions of dome to nave and so on? Any guidance would be appreciated. I was told by another visitor that a church could be designed specifically for Gregorian Chant. Is that true?

And if you come to San Antonio I will be happy to give you a tour of a remarkable building. Thanks for you help
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Instant chant engraving with Gregorio

July 9, 2010, 12:27 pm
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Hi, folks--

Occasionally on the forum I mention the chant engraving software Gregorio. It makes cool-looking output like this:
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But setting the software up is a big technical job. (I'll skip the details: you don't wanna know!)

So, to simplify things, I've made a way to let you run Gregorio on my system.

I've set up a web interface at http://gregorio.gabrielmass.com/.

To use it, you can type up your chant in "gabc" notation, and then paste it into the web form:

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And after you submit the form, you get PDF output in a pop-up window:
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So if you already know how to use Gregorio, or if you'd like to learn, check out the tutorial I wrote, and see the reference pages created by the software's inventors.

This is all new and tentative, but I hope it will be useful to some of you!

Link:
http://gregorio.gabrielmass.com/

PS: If you want to try a sample, copy and paste this:

name:Kyrie XVII;
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(c4)KY(f)ri(gfg)e(h.) *() e(ixjvIH'GhvF'E)lé(ghg')i(g)son.(f.) <i>bis</i>(::)
Chri(ixj)ste(jv.hijv.) e(ixjvIH'GhvF'E)lé(ghg')i(g)son.(f.) <i>bis</i>(::)
Ký(f)ri(hj)e(ixjjkij.) e(ixjvIH'GhvF'E)lé(ghg')i(g)son.(f.) (::)
Ký(f)ri(hj)e(ixjjkij.) *(,) (ixf//hjjkij.) **(,) e(ixjvIH'GhvF'E)lé(ghg')i(g)son.(f.) (::)
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Office of Compline, Ignatius Press

December 15, 2011, 8:30 pm
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Hello friends,

I'd like to ask a favor: Can anyone upload a picture sample from inside the Fr. Samuel F. Weber O.S.B. Office of Compline from Ignatius Press? I'd like to see how it's laid out before ordering. Thanks!

Sincerely,

S
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Responsorial Psalms

June 17, 2013, 3:48 pm
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What resources are you all using for the Responsorial Psalms. Right now I am using mostly Respond and Acclaim, but I really don't like it at all. I've started to write some of my own, but would appreciate any other suggestions.

Thanks so much.
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Antiphons (Word-for-word)

June 16, 2013, 6:50 pm
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Hi, everyone.

A while ago, I asked if anyone knew of a free resource for entrance and communion antiphons for every Sunday and Holy Day, Solemnity, etc.

I was leaded to one, but the antiphons aren't the exact words. Some of them were totally something else.

Does anyone know of a free resource that has antiphons that are the exact words?

As an added preference, I would like it if the antiphons are written in standard music notation, but, I still welcome chant notation.
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Using the Antiphons

June 20, 2013, 8:58 am
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As someone who knows nothing about chant but would like to begin moving away for four songs every Sunday and move to using the chants, what advice do you have? What is the most basic antiphonal chant that someone can use at a parish? If the people have never heard Latin or chant, or read Gregorian chant, what is someone's recommendation for the first place to start? Which chants do you recommend?
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The Age of the Propers and Lessons

June 23, 2013, 6:37 pm
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I'm in the process of reading both Christopher Page and Willi Apel, and I have a question for the forum; something I haven't exactly been able to find an exploration of in either book. The following is my own summation; I'd be very pleased for corrections/adjustments/links to better info.

It appears that the Propers for the Mass of the Church Calendar were relatively fixed by about the 8th century, but since these books are mainly concerned with music, they don't really examine the lessons or readings, except tangentially.

Are the proper texts of similar, older, or more recent date compared to the readings?
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Deus in adjutorium meum intende

June 25, 2013, 6:51 am
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Here's my perennial Liturgy of the Hours / Diving Office annoyance. I appreciate that we don't publicly sing this liturgy too often, and I hate to dispute so ingrained a custom. However, I must insist that the chant tradition is very clear, both in the Liber, p. 112, and modern Antiphonale monasticum, vol. I, p. 506, that the opening versicle, "Deus in ajutorium..." is followed by the response, "Domine ad adjuvandum...", INCLUDING the "Gloria Patri." As far as I can tell, the custom of making "Gloria Patri" a clerical versicle, with "Sicut erat" as the response, is a modern conceit. It probably reflects the better-known custom of the Introit of the Mass, which follows this pattern. Or maybe that's what they teach in seminaries. But even Christian Prayer doesn't suggest this approach. Now, if somebody wants to dispute me based on something official, feel free. Otherwise, please insist, as much as you dare, that your priest follow the standard pattern, with everybody singing the "Gloria Patri."

And I shall rest easier tonight...
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Psalm Tones besides the usual ones?

June 25, 2013, 10:19 pm
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What other psalm tones are there besides the 8 tones, peregrinus, in directum, Paschal Nunc dimittis, and ad Commemoration of the Faithful departed (mentioned in the 1912 Antiphonale Romanum)? I've seen Tone D d, but are there others in the Antiphonale Romanum II or elsewhere?
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Should we have a Mass mixed with Latin Plainchant and English, or to keep Mass all in one language?

June 23, 2013, 10:47 am
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Concerning the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite

I was wondering this;
We have many people these days asking for Funerals in Latin only, and others saying English with the Latin parts like we usually do.
Sometimes we also have our usual Masses completely in English too, with English Chant Settings and Propers etc.

However, many people have raised that it is a bit confusing to have English and Latin in the same Mass, for example, when we have Mass in English but use Latin Propers and/or Ordinary.

Opinions? Should we mix the languages or keep them separate?

Thanks
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Accompanying the Gregorian Propers

June 29, 2013, 7:14 am
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While I'm not chanting the propers presently, I am hopeful that may change in the future, so I am doing what I can to learn as much as I can for when the occasion might arise. I recently purchased the accompaniment volumes for the St. Edmund Campion Missal, and was somewhat surprised that it only includes organ parts for the Kyriale and the Hymnal. Now I realize that all chant is vocal music ideally sung without accompaniment. But from a practical standpoint what would an organist typically play to "support" the singing of the propers?

I also own the current (OF) Graduale Accompaniment books from Solesmes which I keep on the organ for preludes/interludes (hoping that it will subliminally win people over), but that obviously doesn't correspond to the '62 Missal. I also know that the multiple volumes of Nova Organi Harmonia are available from CC Watershed. Are there other options?

For anyone who might have more experience accompanying chant, how do the various accompaniment volumes compare (Solesmes vs NOH for the propers, Berges vs Rossini vs NOH for the Kyriale)? Obviously I could simply play through everything and form my own opinion, but I'm wondering what has/hasn't worked for you if you are using these resources or know of others.

Also, what about the possibility of simply doubling the melody (with or without a pedal tone) and reading directly from the Graduale?

One final question: when playing for the EF which Graduale corresponds to the '62 Missal, or is it just common practice to simply follow the LU?
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Gregorian modes and psalms in the Divine Office

July 6, 2013, 12:23 pm
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In preparing the Divine Office at the seminary, I have introduced a few gregorian tones during our solemn, chanted lauds and vespers. (The psalmody has been customarily set to Mundelien, Meinrad, Weber and Gelineau tones.)

Question for clarification that arise:

(1) In setting a certain psalm to a gregorian psalm tone, is there a fixed relationship of a given psalm (e.g. 110) to a particular gregorian mode? (i.e. Is psalm 109/110 always set to - say - Mode 7? or is Psalm 24 always set to Mode 4? etc.)

I suspect the answer is as complex as the question...

(2) Or does the mode for which the psalm text is set depend on the mode of the antiphon that precedes it?
(which i suspect is actually the case.)

e.g. the use of the ubiquitous vespers antiphon "Dixit Dóminus" (Mode VII) automatically makes psalm 109/110 Mode VII in its psalm tone.

(3) If that is the case - even if the antiphon Dixit Dóminus isn't used (as in Weeks I, II and IV of the current Liturgy of the Hours) - is psalm 109/110 always Mode VII?

(I suspect not, though...)

(4) Do the rules change when setting the Benedictus or Magnificat?
(e.g. Ought one use the 'tonus peregrinus' on occasion?)

Any comments / corrections / insights would be most appreciated.

-fr. m. earthman
houston, tx

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