Tracts?
  • brahms8
    Posts: 24
    I was looking at Graduale chants for the Chair of St. Peter and noticed that no Tract is provided. Surely they must have foreseen that this day would fall within Lent more often than note. Any thoughts on where to find such tracts for this and other similar days?

    Daniel
  • OMagnumMysterium
    Posts: 185
    The Tract is "Tu Es Petrus" pg. 409 in the 1961 Graduale. The same Mass is used for both traditional feasts of Saint Peter's chairs.
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  • a_f_hawkins
    Posts: 3,372
    The tract is listed in Ordo Cantus Missae which is online. And Jeff Ostrowski has a two part article about how to navigate OCM here.
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    Surely they must have foreseen that this day would fall within Lent more often than not

    Yes "they" did. The position in liturgical law is that the 1908 Graduale Romanum is the current editio typica as rejigged for the NO by the current OCM, which indexes it. The 1974 GR is a private edition by Solesmes, the imprimatur does not give it the status of an editio typica.
  • MatthewRoth
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    However, the Vatican strategy of indexing — differently! — is just… as Italian bad as it can get. Purchasing a book that you can directly use should be the strategy, and while Solesmes itself does seem to respect some of the indications of the OCM (abolition of the Gloria Patri entirely, abolition of the asterisk of the melismatic chants where the choir resumes — though they then have everyone sing the Alleluia which is "wishful thinking" in parishes), those changes are also changes which seem less based on earlier tradition, even if that is indeed the case, and more the whims of people who did something that means that you cannot easily transition from singing at the traditional Mass to singing at the NO.
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  • a_f_hawkins
    Posts: 3,372
    A further complication! I should add for completeness that there are some ¿28? melodies listed in OCM which are not in the official printed book but are ancient manuscript sources found and added over the last century or so.
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