Quick question: Processionale
  • graduale
    Posts: 30
    What might be found in a chant book under the name of “Processionale Romanum” or “Processionale Monasticum”? What occasions would one use this book for?
  • Incardination
    Posts: 832
    A collection of antiphons, responsories, hymns, and litanies that are otherwise referenced in the Rituale or other liturgical books, but which may not necessarily be elsewhere presented musically. I believe it contains items of interest for various processions through the church year, but not strictly relegated to just processions.
  • tomjaw
    Posts: 2,713
    Some also contain the music for the procession before Mass.
  • a_f_hawkins
    Posts: 3,383
    This entry in the 1917 Catholic Encyclopedia summarises. The modern example of a Processional produced by the Society of St Gregory is slightly different, being all the English texts available for the processions listed in GIRM (Entrance, Offertory, Communion) in England&Wales, but without music.
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  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,166
    I have a copy of the 1893 Solesmes Processionale Monasticum here, and it includes processional chants: for example, the antiphon "Lumen ad revelationem gentium..." chanted with the Nunc dimittis on February 2 (Presentation); it includes chants for the reception of a bishop upon his visit ("Sacerdos et pontifex", "Ecce sacerdos magnus").

    It has an array of responsoria for feast days: for March 25, it has "Gaude Maria virgo; cunctas haereses sola interemisti..."
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