Dies Irae in NO Breviary
I was going to use the Dies Irae from the current Breviary (Appendix V) during a NO liturgy of the hours. Does anyone know what to do with the "extra" verse at the end of each segment? What's this...
View ArticleAnybody have an Offertoriale Triplex?
I would love to know if the offertory "Elegi, et sanctificavi locum istum" is in it, and if so, what are the psalm verses (I intend to set the first one to a psalm tone a la Richard Rice). This is the...
View ArticleSinging the prayers after the "Asperges me"
I wanted to thank Mr. Ostrowski for this article.It is good to see these details getting a chance in the spotlight.I would also add: the differences between tones such as these are something that not...
View ArticleMass XIV, Missa Jesu Redemptor
Our schola is singing Mass XIV for Advent and most of the Christmas season as well.Has anyone else ever sung this mass setting? It's quite enchanting. : )I see that Henri de Villiers at Ste....
View ArticleKyrie attributed to St. Hildegard
A few years ago, having snagged a copy of the Liber Usualis (Paroissien Romain) off eBay, I found a leaflet inserted in its pages with notation for "No. 19 : Messe de Sainte Hildegarde". The Kyrie of...
View ArticleChants for Memorial of Saint Francis Xavier
Last minute today we decided to put together music for tomorrow's Memorial of Saint Francis Xavier. We want to chant propers for the Introit and Communion.I have this as text, from my pastor:Introit:...
View ArticleMelody for Membra DNJC (Salve Mundi Salutare/Salve Saput Cruentatum)
Hi,does anyone have a tune or a gregorian melody (the best would be if there is an original one - meter: 8.8.8.8.8) for the Saint Bernards or Arnulph of Leuvens oratio rhytmica Ad membri DNJC? One of...
View Article“Liber Hymnarius” preface: English translation?
Hi all,I know Peter Jeffery has translated the “Liber Hymnarius”’s preface, and I read elsewhere that Fr. Kelly has done so as well.Is either of these, or another translation, available online?-FG
View ArticlePD source for “Illuminare” Epiphany responsory?
Hi all,The “Liber Hymnarius” contains a responsory for Epiphany “Illuminare, illuminare”.Is there any public domain source of this chant? Right now the only notation of it that I have found *is* the LH...
View ArticleSchola St. Cecile's new CD
The Schola St. Cecile has just released a thrilling album of Parisian plainchant sung in alternatim with the 15 Verses for the Vespers of the Common of the Feasts of the Holy Virgin by Marcel Dupré,...
View ArticleMattins
In Anglican Sung Morning Prayer / Mattins sung to gregorian chant, is the intonation of the tone sung before the reciting note in the Venite, the Te Deum and the Benedictus or only in the latter? I see...
View ArticleCatalog of medieval music manuscripts of Austrian National Libary
This just in from the auther for those interested. Freely downloadable (some 850 mb):Catalog of the medieval musical manuscripts of the Austrian National Library ViennaKatalog der mittelalterlichen...
View ArticleAdvent Hymns
Have been doing some research on the Office Hymns for Advent. Some links to manuscripts...From Bréviaire de Paris, 1201-1300 A.D.Conditor Alme Siderum, Vespers...
View ArticleTone for the EF nuptial blessing?
Greetings. I was wondering if anyone had info on the tone used for singing the nuptial blessing in the 1962 Missal/Extraordinary Form. Some sources I have read while looking this up offhanded say that...
View ArticleAudio examples of decadent (pre-Solesmes) Gregorian chant?
Recently, I was telling a bunch of students about how badly chant got corrupted in the early modern period leading to the Medici/Ratisbonne (?) editions, how its melodies and rhythm had been deformed,...
View ArticleBook 'El Canto Mozarabe' available for download
El Canto Mozarabe by Rojo y Prado, OSB, originally published 1929, is available for download here.The book contains lots of Mozarabic chant examples from manuscripts as well as passages written in...
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 ArticleDifficulty Sourcing a Chant
A friend of mine is doing a project about chant accompaniment and is struggling to find the source of the attached Panis Angelicus "alter tonus" chant. I went and checked the usual books as well as...
View ArticleKoerber's Hybrid Chant Notation and the NOH
OK peoples. I think I am closer to perfecting my hybrid notation. Here it demonstrates how to maintain the latin chant and set a modern accompaniment for organ using the NOH. Let me know what you...
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