Directory of Gregorian Chants Transcribed into St. Meinrad Font or similar
  • Jonathan Ziegler
    Posts: 3
    Is there a resource where I can find Gregorian Chants transcribed into St. Meinrad Font or whichever is the most "standard" gregorian notation software nowadays?

    Say for example I want to create a Word document with everything I need to celebrate EF Vespers tonight for the Feast of St. Lawrence Justinian. I would think that so many people have been transcribing antiphons, etc into St. Meinrad Font over the years that what I need has already been formatted properly. It would be so easy to go to one site where I could find what I need, Ctrl-C the individual pre-formatted parts, and print out booklets quickly.

    Does something like this exist? Would it be useful to many people if it doesn't yet? How might we go about doing it if it doesn't exist?

    Eventually, I'm imagining a website similar to divinumofficium.org which provides all the texts for an office at a mouseclick, except for everything pre-formatted in Gregorian notation. Once the Gregorian chant repertoire is formatted once, we all individually wouldn't need to do it again. Imagine the OF Liturgy of the Hours without having to scour various books for the proper antiphons, etc... And then with iPad access too :)

    Just thinking out loud,

    Jonathan
  • BenBen
    Posts: 3,114
    What we really need is a GBAC database of the Graduale Romanum
  • Jonathan Ziegler
    Posts: 3
    What is GBAC?
  • smvanroodesmvanroode
    Posts: 966
    gabc is the "code" used to transcribe chants for Gregorio, a great piece of software that produces crisp pdf's instead of stamped chants using Open Type fonts. See http://home.gna.org/gregorio/index.en.html. There is an easy way to produce pdf's from gabc using this online tool: http://gregorio.gabrielmass.com/cgi/process.pl.

    I thought Andrew Hinkley had the entire Graduale Romanum transcribed in gabc and that these source files were available through http://www.caecilia-project.org/, but it seems the website had a recent update and the gabc files are now nowhere to be found...

    I'm currently working on putting together the entire Antiphonale for the Liturgy of the Hours: http://www.transitofvenus.nl/LiturgiaHorarum/, but it might take a while before this has been completed (I only have the weekend to do this).

    Steven
  • Andrew Hinkley
    Posts: 59
    The Graduale Romanum gabc files can be found here,
    and the not-yet-proofread ones are here.
  • RagueneauRagueneau
    Posts: 2,592
    Does anyone else realize that what Andrew Hinkley just posted is AMAZING ????
  • Pes
    Posts: 623
    Andrew, that is astonishing work.

    I'm having trouble compiling. I'm running Mac OSX, have TeXShop installed (which I've used for LaTeX and Lilypond), have Gregorio installed, and have followed the README instructions for placing gregorio.engine in the proper Library folder so TeXShop can use it. I said:

    defaults write TeXShop OtherTeXExtensions -array-add "gabc"

    so now TeXShop can use it. I called gregorio successfully on a sample file. It produced a .tex file, as it should. But what then? I tried running LaTeX and Plain TeX on the .tex file to no avail. In both cases I get:

    Error: !Undefined control sequence. l.2 \begingregorioscore.

    So obviously I have to make TeXShop recognize that control sequence. Does anyone know how?

    I don't have lualatex installed, wanting to see if I can't make TeXShop work this angle first.

    UPDATE:

    (grubbing around) I think I can just get lualatex installed by downloading MacTeX: http://www.tug.org/mactex/2011/
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,157
    For technical help with Gregorio, I recommend joining the "gregorio-users" mailing list at
    https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users
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