Discrepancy between Gradual and Missal: a new explanation
  • smvanroodesmvanroode
    Posts: 966
    The discrepancy between the antiphons in the Graduale Romanum and the Missale Romanum has been discussed many times before. However, this explanation for the discrepancy was new to me:

    The discrepancy between the two, if it can be called that, is probably due to the chronology of publication. The Gradual was published in 1974, four years after the missal and the lectionary which introduced the new, three-year cycle of readings. The compilers of the Gradual therefore had sufficient time to propose new chants adapted to each cycle of readings, whereas the missal text was confined to cycle A.


    See this article in ZENIT.
  • Jeffrey TuckerJeffrey Tucker
    Posts: 3,624
    But didn't the Graduale just follow the ordered laid out in that other list that came out in 1969? I forget the name of it.
  • smvanroodesmvanroode
    Posts: 966
    The Ordo Cantus Missae was issued on June 24, 1972. That is, the Decretum is dated 1972, and the November 22, 1986 Decretum also refers to the "anno 1972 textum edidit ORDINIS CANTUS MISSAE". The copyright page however says the Prima editio is from 1970. Confusing. -- The first edition of the Ordo Lectionum Missae is from 1969, which would allow for the above argument (time wise).
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