Hi all,
I've been going through my predecessor's bookshelves (6 months into the job; you can tell what kind of year it's been), deciding what to keep and what not to, and I found this little gem:
Complete English Propers for the High Mass
for all Sundays and principal feasts
set to Gregorian melodies
adaptable to psalm tones or hamonized settings
edited by Rev. Paul Arbogast
It was published out of St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, IN, in 1964. It predates the first postconciliar Missal, and so uses the preconciliar calendar. In many ways, it's similar to the Graduale Simplex.
It has ALL the propers (except the Alleluia), in English, for every Sunday of the year set to Gregorian tones.
Has anyone ever seen / worked with this? It's like Fr. Arbogast was 50 years ahead of his time. Or we're 50 years behind, depending how optimistic/pessimistic you are.
I've been going through my predecessor's bookshelves (6 months into the job; you can tell what kind of year it's been), deciding what to keep and what not to, and I found this little gem:
Complete English Propers for the High Mass
for all Sundays and principal feasts
set to Gregorian melodies
adaptable to psalm tones or hamonized settings
edited by Rev. Paul Arbogast
It was published out of St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, IN, in 1964. It predates the first postconciliar Missal, and so uses the preconciliar calendar. In many ways, it's similar to the Graduale Simplex.
It has ALL the propers (except the Alleluia), in English, for every Sunday of the year set to Gregorian tones.
Has anyone ever seen / worked with this? It's like Fr. Arbogast was 50 years ahead of his time. Or we're 50 years behind, depending how optimistic/pessimistic you are.