Triplex question that you can answer
Here is my question that surely has an obvious answer but I don't know it. Why does the Triplex not have old neumes on the Kyriale?
View ArticleInteresting approach to singing the communios with psalms verses
I was perusing this interesting German web site:http://www.gregor-und-taube.de/html/materialien.htmwhich has an online "restored", or corrected, version of the Graduale. What caught my eye (inter alia)...
View ArticleMemorial Acclamation in the OF?
This is a "chant 101" sort of question. I've been as diligent as I think I can be here, so far, in trying to search for an answer:What chant "options" are there for the Memorial Acclamation in the OF,...
View ArticleLearning the Propers
First, a great big thank you to the CMAA for its work. Because of the information, workshops, and download-able materials it has made available, we started a garage schola in the middle of an area with...
View ArticleQuestion on 24th Sund OT Cyc A Communion (Tollite)
Going from the antiphon to the verses, the C clef shifts where the verses start on an A pitch. However, at the end of the antiphon the custos is on a high E pitch. Should the verses be sung starting on...
View ArticleLiquescent question
Hello, Forgive me if there's an obvious answer that I am not seeing...in the solesmes method, how does one interpret a liquescent that appears to neither reference a singable consonant or a 'latin...
View ArticleTu Mandasti and Si Ambulavero
Just posted my impressions of these two chants for this weekend here and here.
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Communio at Notre Dame
Here is an image from the sung Mass at Notre Dame. The singer is using Communio printed out from Musica Sacra!
View ArticleChant needed
Greetings,I don't currently have access to a modern Graduale Romanum. I'm hoping someone can help me with a scan of the Communion "Beátus venter qui portávit Christum Dóminum ; quinímmo beáti qui...
View ArticleSunday XXVI (Year A), Introit and Gradual
This Sunday's Introit and Gradual (in the Graduale Romanum) are based on Phil 2:6-11, which is the Second Reading. But, yet again, the Missal and the Lectionary don't reflect this. Can someone refresh...
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Graduale Romanum Birthday lecture
On Sunday, I'll be giving a talk on the 100th anniversary of the Graduale Romanum. I'll be doing some examples of before and after chants to illustrate what this book meant from the Roman Rite. Here is...
View ArticleRegarding how to find chants in the NOH
Several folks have asked about how to find specific chants in the NOH.What you need to do is:(1) Download the 1961 Graduale (or the 1908) and the Liber Usualis. Both are provided free on...
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Chants Abrégés
reblogged from NLMI've sung in scholas that accomplished the Introits, Offertories, and Communions with solid competence, fitting for the Holy Mass. And yet, when it comes to the Graduals and...
View ArticleTexts and Settings for Propers
I’m singing for a Mass this weekend---votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and I am a bit unsure of what to do. My priest had asked me to chant the communion antiphon for the day, but what is the...
View ArticleNew Chant CD released!
The Stepping Stone Chant Project is pleased to announce that their first CD, "Blessed is the Ordinary," has been released by Brave Records and is available for sale...
View Articleerrata for Graduale Romanum
Hi all,Would there be any takers for putting up a Wiki to catalogue typographical errors of the 1974 Graduale Romanum?For example, there should be a citation for the Christmas Eve Alleluia of “Cf. 4...
View ArticleFourth Sunday in Advent: "Rorate" and others
Wonderful chants coming up this week. Introit. I just learned something at lunch today about "Rorate caeli." It seems that in all these early European manuscript sources of chant, there exists...
View ArticleAnyone have the Advent preface in square notes?
Good cause here:Could I bother you to help me find the sqaure notes score of the Advent Preface in the Ext Form and scan it to me? We need it for Bishp Peter Elliott's Mass in Hong Kong and oddly none...
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