I'm helping with a Missa Cantata with lots of kids for the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
The Mode 4 Communio looks a bit challenging, so thinking of swapping it out for this Responsorium Breve from the Dominican books:
https://gregobase.selapa.net/chant.php?id=5667
It has Alleluias, but apart from that, the text seems the same as the proper proper:
https://gregobase.selapa.net/chant.php?id=346
I've swapped for Vespers Antiphons before, and there is one of those too:
https://gregobase.selapa.net/chant.php?id=2868
But I can see teaching the Responsory being easier on the kids, and gives a bit more variety to the spectrum of chant.
I'll focus on learning the Introit and Vexilla Regis and see how the rest goes. It would be great to sing Christus Factus, but I don't want to end up singing solo, so that will depend if anyone is game to learn it.
Other suggestions, welcome - the main question I have is if there is any issue subbing in the responsory here for the communion antiphon.
The Mode 4 Communio looks a bit challenging, so thinking of swapping it out for this Responsorium Breve from the Dominican books:
https://gregobase.selapa.net/chant.php?id=5667
It has Alleluias, but apart from that, the text seems the same as the proper proper:
https://gregobase.selapa.net/chant.php?id=346
I've swapped for Vespers Antiphons before, and there is one of those too:
https://gregobase.selapa.net/chant.php?id=2868
But I can see teaching the Responsory being easier on the kids, and gives a bit more variety to the spectrum of chant.
I'll focus on learning the Introit and Vexilla Regis and see how the rest goes. It would be great to sing Christus Factus, but I don't want to end up singing solo, so that will depend if anyone is game to learn it.
Other suggestions, welcome - the main question I have is if there is any issue subbing in the responsory here for the communion antiphon.