O Antiphons
Here are files of Scott Turkington singing the O Antiphons Antiphon 1Antiphon 2Antiphon 3Antiphon 4Antiphon 5Antiphon 6Antiphon 7
View ArticleDominican Chant and Dominican Identity
In a recent issue of the open access journal Religions, Br. Innocent Smith, OP of the Province of St. Joseph (Eastern American Province of the Order of Preachers) published an article titled "Dominican...
View ArticleChant for the Mass of B.M.V Matris Misericordiae
There is a special Mass approved by St. Pius X devoted to Our Lady of the Gates of Dawn (Vilnius). The icon of Our Lady of the Gates of Dawn is famous in Lithuania and Poland and it has been venerated...
View ArticleFrom Solesmes.... The Death of the Ictus and the Dot
From the Introduction of the new Antiphonle Monasticum 2005.... The dot and the vertical episema do not correspond to any traditional information about Gregorian chant. They do not appear in any...
View ArticleIn Praise of Unity in Method
An interesting turn of events at the St. Cecilia sacred music workshop took place that (IMHO) teaches an important lesson about chant and method. Because we have a shortage of priests, there was no...
View ArticleAudit Tyrannus Anxius
I have spent two days seeking the chant notation for Audit Tyrannus Anxius, the Matins hymn for the Feast of the Holy Innocents, and have struck out. There is one verse set to notation in the Liber...
View ArticleEin Gregorianik Ausmalbuch fur Kinder ünd Erwachsene
Quintus N. Sachs M SEN, Übersetzer.Webpage for printed edition.Download link pending.
View ArticleMysterium Fidei gabc
I've searched Gregobase for the memorial acclamation "Mortem Tuam" but find nothing. Before I attempt to input it myself, I wondered if anyone might already have it in gabc. Here is a screen shot from...
View ArticleGregorian chant, a textbook for seminaries, novitiates and secondary schools...
Download:https://archive.org/details/gregorianchantte00klar_0
View ArticleTota pulchra es
Would anyone happen to have a clean copy of this chant (without the English translation)?
View ArticleSpanish Chant -
I believe this subject has been discussed here before. However - at St Basil's chant class this morning the topic was modern and English chant, which was very well received. We concentrated on the work...
View ArticleVespers 101
It's very confusing trying to figure out Vespers. The whole Comparison Gradual was a result of my trying to figure out the entire responsorial psalm business...GIRM, SIMPLEX, on and on.... Could...
View ArticleWhere does this Vidi aquam come from?
http://www.icelweb.org/musicfolder/openpdf.php?file=BaptismalWater11accomp.pdfIs this is a newly composed melody by some of the ICEL staff or is there an original upon which this is based?
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The Anti-Liturgical Heresy, by Dom Guéranger OSB - Latin vs. vernacular
Hello everyone,I don't know if it has ever been mentioned in this forum so here you go.Regarding the use of Latin vs. vernacular Dom Guéranger OSB, Abbot of Solesmes, wrote this chapter in his...
View ArticleSarum Gospel Tone(s)
I'm sure its out there on the internet somewhere, but I can not find tones for chanting the Gospels from the Sarum tradition.I need it because of reasons.
View ArticleWedding Preface in Latin
Does anyone know where I could find (on the internet?) printouts of the Prefaces in Latin for the Novus Ordo... Some of them are pointed in the Missale Romano but many are not. In particular, I am...
View ArticleEcce nomen Domini - schema?
At the end it has an instruction to optionally go back to "Eia!" but if you do so, are you supposed to sing it to the end again, or stop at "clementia"?The recordings I am finding just sing it straight...
View ArticleSuggestions on recruiting members for a brand-new Schola
Hello all,My pastor is head of two parishes, and at one of them, he will be adding an Extraordinary Form Mass for every Sunday beginning sometime early next year. The goal is to do a High Mass as often...
View ArticleGregorio Web App with GUI - "Illuminare Score Editor"
Over the past several months, Benjamin Bloomfield and I have developed a web application for the processing of Gregorio GABC. We have now made available a public facing installation of this app for...
View ArticleVoice to eye or ear?
Simple question for distillation: all things being equal, when it comes to the moment and progression of a chant performance, which is the more important sensory tool, the eye or the ear. I'm really...
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