Favorite Parts of the Ordinary?
On another thread, JulieColl talked about how beautiful the Agnus Dei from Mass VI is. We have been singing for 5 years now, and we have used the Ordinary for Masses I, IV, VIII, IX, XI, and XVII, and...
View ArticleGregorian hymns by meter
The Old MacDonald thread reminded me that I once borrowed Alto ex Olympi vertice to get a 6-line tune to sing Catullus LXI, the solo setting (in Latin) by Ezra Pound breaking off well before the end....
View ArticleVenite adoremus Deum
Hello! I need your help!I'm looking for the Venite adoremus Deum Gregorian chant. Does anyone know where I can find it? I tried the Graudale, Ursualis, Brevis... I can't find it anywhere, but there is...
View ArticleMissa IV
I recall reading an interesting article on the history of Missa VIII via a link one of the helpful folks here provided. Would anyone have a link to the history of this setting of the Mass?
View ArticleHow to chose Propers for a Weekday Mass
Hello all. I have been asked to plan the music for a future priest's first mass at my parish. He has asked that I use the Propers (specifically the introit and communion antiphon). The date of this...
View ArticleLatin LOTH 4 Week psalter using Ordo Offici 2015. Missing antiphon
Dear All,I am trying to find the chant for the 3rd Antiphon for Vespers - Monday week 1 (Latin and Ordinary Form) “In Filio suo elegit no’s Deus in adoptionem filiorum” but I haven’t had any luck so...
View ArticleEF practices
I have been reflecting upon certain actions performed during the EF (maybe just in our parish). This is the fact that the celebrant sits down (and is copied by the congregation) part way during the...
View ArticleRecordings of chant
Looking to familiarize myself with what seems an inaccessible forbidding world. Can anyone recommend some chant based CD music that is accessible? When I work to learn an organ piece based on a hymn...
View ArticleMode 2 Nuncs?
I was set wondering while looking at Lasso's canticles and found some non-Salva nos antiphons in the 1933 Antiphonarium (now I know more about Media vita too). This book has gaps for modes 2 & 6...
View ArticleRichard Crocker
In looking at CMAA/Resources/More Latin chant I noticed a dead link to a site described here. Anyone know if it's achieved somewhere else?I haven't bumped into my old teacher for some time, but trust...
View ArticlePsallat Ecclesia - Dedication sequence for a new church
I'm working on a CD of solo Gregorian Chant to help fundraise for our new church. I'm concentrating on sequences as I enjoy the musical variation in them compared to the typical antiphon-verse chant,...
View ArticleMode 2 chant using Do clef?
What determines whether a chant in mode 2 is notated using a Fa clef or a Do clef? The Fa clef seems more common, but as I have flipped through hymnals I have noticed that the Do clef is not infrequent...
View ArticleAlternatim performance of chant Ordinaries
So I was on a social media site (the one whose founder looks like H.P. Lovecraft) and the topic came up of congregations alternating parts of the Ordinary, men/women. This struck me as some kind of...
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Experimental Simplified 1st Sunday of Advent Propers based on Pustet Edition
I noticed many choirs use psalm tones to sing the propers because the melodies in the Graduale Romanum are too complex. The melodies in the old pre-Solesmes editions are much simpler yet beautiful, so...
View ArticleOrdo Hebdomadae Sanctae 1961
I was wondering if the Ordo Hebdomadae Sanctae, editio cum cantu gregoriano 1961was available anywhere in PDF.
View ArticleSancte Michael Archangele-The St. Michael Prayer- Original Chant
This is the Link to an Original Chant Piece, using the text of Pope Leo XIII's Prayer to St. Michael:https://youtu.be/s6LNhFmVR_8The Gregorian score and the Recording are Copy Written by the Monks of...
View ArticleChant for Trebles - a new resource
Greetings, everyone! I would like to introduce you all to a newly created resource, Chant for Trebles. For a few years now the ladies in our women's schola at St. Mary Star of the Sea in Jackson,...
View ArticleAve Joseph - Original Chant
This is the Link (It has been updated): https://youtu.be/8Yq40CZWt5w to an Original Chant Piece, for a prayer with the Following Imprimatur:Imprimatur de Rome: E Vicariatu Urbis die 30 april. 1960...
View ArticleDULCE CARMEN -
Could someone put Latin text and Gregorian tune to Alleluia Dulce Carmen hereon? I can't seem to lay my hands on it. Many thanks! P.S. - I found the text in The Hymnal 1940 Companion. What is the...
View ArticleVotive Mass of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on a Saturday
Hello!Is there a Gloria and a Credo for a Votive Mass of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on a Saturday (March 2nd)? Or, because it's not a Feast day, no Gloria or Credo?Also, is it appropriate to sing...
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