https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/categories/anglican-chant/feed.rss Fri, 15 May 26 14:23:17 +0000 Anglican Use and Anglican Chant - MusicaSacra Church Music Forum en-CA https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/23275/sarum-psalter Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:41:18 +0000 PhinneasPublick 23275@/forum/discussions ]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/20552/year-a-psalms-in-anglican-chant Fri, 06 Jan 2023 20:14:17 +0000 Richard Mix 20552@/forum/discussions Year C thread.
Epiphany and OT 2A]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/22158/office-of-compline-anglican-use Tue, 07 Jan 2025 20:46:27 +0000 BGP 22158@/forum/discussions
Edit- I wish they had included the antiphon for the psalms, I used tonus in directum (as that's the purpose for which it exists) because of the lack of one.

]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/19605/year-c-psalms-in-anglican-chant Sat, 01 Jan 2022 04:34:44 +0000 Richard Mix 19605@/forum/discussions an earlier thread. Extra eyes and proofreading most welcome!

Here are Epiphany, and OT 2 & 3 (Baptism seems a good time to give the choir a break and use George Jeffrey's solo setting of Psalm 104.)

The 3-fold division of text is something I ran into at Holy Family C; I wonder if there's a name for the neither-single-nor double-chant of my Brahms adaptation.]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/18421/anglican-compline-library-available-for-free Mon, 21 Sep 2020 17:22:42 +0000 jefe 18421@/forum/discussions
During Covid I edited my whole library (almost all my own engravings on Sibelius), down to 5342 items, about 10K pages.

Our Compline groups have now chanted around 150 Late Night Prayers in several locations, the complete scores of which I have in the collection and archived.

The 2 gig thumb drive contains 567 megs of material. I tried sending these as an attachment, but our satellite internet (Hughesnet) is much too slow on the upload.

I'm giving away the whole thing on a thumb drive. That's right, no cost.

If you want the Compline Library, I need your street address to which to mail the thumb drive.

To reply directly, my email address is jefe4x4@gmail.com or, PM me your street address.

After much searching, trial and error, we settled on a realized version of the 2005 edition of
An Order for Night Prayer COMPLINE in traditional language Published by the Royal School of Church Music for The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society.

The most important part of our version of Compline is how high quality and effective the musical choices are. For this, I'm thankful to be an Anglican/Episcopalian/Moravian (followers of Jan Huss) with few doctrinal impediments standing in our way.

The Compline Library is in both Sibelius 7.5 and a pdf format, side by side. I have a big stack of thumb drives and they are getting shipped.

Our style is that of the Compline Choir in Seattle's St. Mark's Cathedral. My mentor was the late Peter Hallock.

My last gig was playing bass trombone with the L.A. Philharmonic (1969-2006) and as a studio musician playing a lot of recordings and Hollywood film scores. I was also a full professor of music @ Long Beach State in CA in charge of 80 brass players. My connection with Sacred Music dates back to my 4 decades as choir director at the Moravian Church.

Our F.B. page.
https://www.facebook.com/Trinity-Compline- Choirs-183931914983523/

Here are the file categories. Files 01 to 05 are what I call the "Big Five" of Compline: the tunes that change each time according to the Lectionary and the season.

00 Intro 210 items
01 ORISON 222 items
02 HYMN 303 items
03 Psalm 330 items (many of these are complete Psalms)
04 Nunc 274 items
05 Anthem 334 items
06 AN ORDER pdf 140 items
06.1 Other Orders for Compline
07 printed programs 147 items
08 other orders 5 items
09 service music 225 items
10 packaged scores 1601 items
11 Heinrich Isaac 91 items
12 Maundy Thursday 108 items
13 Russian/Greek Ortho 97 items
14 chants, various 197 items
15 Ave Maria, Salve, O’s 97 items
16 Voces Angelorum 696 items
17 John Sheppard 11 items
18 packaged complete 70 items
19 Josquin 22 items
20 Gallus/Handl 22 items
22 Tallis 43 items
]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/21521/an-anglican-plainsong-breviary-bcp-2019 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 19:50:08 +0000 father_ben_jefferies 21521@/forum/discussions
https://youtu.be/OsFOxhLYo5M

also more can be seen at https://www.BernardBreviary.com]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/21945/does-thechoir-stand-and-orient-to-the-reader-if-the-second-lesson-is-from-a-gospel-at-evensong Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:24:19 +0000 Simon 21945@/forum/discussions https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/19212/anglican-chant-for-gradual-psalm-ot-18 Mon, 26 Jul 2021 01:34:56 +0000 Richard Mix 19212@/forum/discussions in directum? I'm so tired of Guimont that I spent time today to lay out some double chants.]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/9675/anglican-chant-psalter-1987-and-plainsong-psalter-1988-pdf-links Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:21:12 +0000 Aristotle Esguerra 9675@/forum/discussions

The Anglican Chant Psalter (1987)

The Plainsong Psalter (1988)

]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/19629/new-coverdale-psalter Wed, 12 Jan 2022 15:00:35 +0000 Jehan_Boutte 19629@/forum/discussions
I had the opportunity to look at it. It seems to be a "modernized" version of the Coverdale Psalter ("Thou/Thee" has been replaced with "You" for instance).

What do you think?]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/20959/merbecke-te-deum-in-chant-notation Thu, 15 Jun 2023 22:44:49 +0000 GerardH 20959@/forum/discussions https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/21373/year-b-psalms-in-anglican-chant Sun, 31 Dec 2023 05:51:11 +0000 Richard Mix 21373@/forum/discussions this thread. Here are Holy Family & Epiphany:]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/17280/new-ordinariate-mission-catholic-church-of-the-presentation-the-woodlands-tx Sat, 06 Jul 2019 14:41:48 +0000 Blaise 17280@/forum/discussions
Does anyone in this area want to be part of a new ordinariate mission parish, founded in early February of this year? Or perhaps you have a little time to spare to visit a new Catholic community this summer? It is led by my parochial vicar at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham - Catholic Church & Shrine, Houston, Texas, the Rev. Fr. Justin P. Fletcher, and is staffed by other priests including our director of vocations of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, the Rev. Fr. Richard Kramer.

According to a friend who has been here, musical offerings include propers led by a cantor and a capella hymns at the 10 AM Sunday Mass and the John Merbecke setting of the ordinary. "Asperges Me" as appropriate (he was there on Corpus Christi Sunday).

As I understand it, The Woodlands is considered a rather choice place to live.

The Catholic Church of the Presentation]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/20951/responsorial-ps.-128-for-ot-33-a Tue, 13 Jun 2023 00:03:02 +0000 Richard Mix 20951@/forum/discussions https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/20666/responsorial-psalms-for-lent-year-a-set-to-anglican-chant Sun, 19 Feb 2023 17:38:03 +0000 CHGiffen 20666@/forum/discussions
]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/20592/the-beatitudes Fri, 20 Jan 2023 20:52:28 +0000 ServiamScores 20592@/forum/discussions I was very taken aback when Queen Elizabeth II's coffin was carried into Westminster hall and the choir began chanting James O'Donnell's treatment of Psalm 139. It is positively stunning.

EDIT:
It's an interesting idea to sing the Beatitudes to a nice Anglican Chant Formula. You should try it. You should also look up the tone I mentioned above. It is particularly lovely.]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/20301/what-are-our-takeaways-from-the-anglican-musical-tradition Thu, 22 Sep 2022 10:06:55 +0000 Anna_Bendiksen 20301@/forum/discussions
HM the Queen's funeral having stunned, I thought I would start this thread. I'm curious to know what we as a community of Catholic musicians think are some of the conclusions to be drawn here---either from the event itself or from Anglican music as a whole. Is there anything that you will be taking home, trying out with your own choirs? What can we beg, borrow, or steal? What cannot be done? Where are the points of agreement and discord?
]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/20150/vigils-and-matins Fri, 22 Jul 2022 15:30:55 +0000 FKulash 20150@/forum/discussions
This came up in "The Other Side of History" by Robert Garland in the Great Courses series. He says that the medieval Divine Office had nine hours: Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, Nones, Vespers, Compline and Vigils. His focus is 14th century England, so maybe it was a local custom at that time. Then again, Garland admits he is not a medievalist, so he may simply be misinformed. (Overall, the lectures are quite good.)]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/20055/sarum-rite-e-books-of-interest Fri, 17 Jun 2022 18:47:29 +0000 Kathy 20055@/forum/discussions this treasure house. ]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/18854/psalm-51-ash-wednesday-charles-h.-giffen Sun, 28 Mar 2021 03:53:49 +0000 CHGiffen 18854@/forum/discussions
"Psalm 51 for Ash Wednesday" by Charles H. Giffen - Ensemble Nobiles


Score attached (also available at CPDL).]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/19452/choosing-english-translation-for-musical-settings-anglican-style Tue, 02 Nov 2021 03:14:31 +0000 m_r_taylor 19452@/forum/discussions
Where would I find the preferred traditional English translation? If there is one?

So for example, let's take the Matins invitatory for the 1st Sunday of Advent. "Regem ventúrum Dóminum * Veníte, adorémus." The website divinumofficium lists the English as "The Lord, the King who is to come * O come, let us adore Him." and that seems quite nice though I can't find an attribution for the English text on that site.]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/18056/responsorial-psalms-catholic-set-to-anglican-chant Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:35:49 +0000 NeilMac 18056@/forum/discussions
I have attached a small sample of these. I should be grateful for comments and to know whether anybody would be interested in the whole cycle]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/18607/anglican-chant-propers Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:58:24 +0000 Jehan_Boutte 18607@/forum/discussions Pax vobis.

Is there such a thing as Propers of the Mass in Anglican Chant? If so, do you have any examples of what it looks like?
I have the feeling most Anglicans have used plainsong when composing for the Mass propers (with, it must be said, remarquable taste, quality and splendor). But it seems to me the same thing does not exist with Anglican chant. Am I wrong?]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/16796/st.-peter-gradual Fri, 25 Jan 2019 04:17:37 +0000 toddevoss 16796@/forum/discussions http://www.ncregister.com/blog/pjsmith/new-st.-peter-gradual-brings-anglican-chant-and-prayer-book-english-to-the?fbclid=IwAR1mvtVaWIYwj18VJPY2D5Ee6oawBon7tWCg6V6mI7Rgv7RjiGobjsDhBEI
]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/18850/the-saint-peter-gradual-an-organ-accompaniment Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:33:55 +0000 Steve Collins 18850@/forum/discussions
N.B. The Ordinariates did not solicit this work, nor is it officially authorized. It is simply my personal project. And it is completed. And it is available for sale.

It is not only complete, but has some extras that aren't in TSPG, but which are in Divine Worship: The Missal. You can find the details on my blog:

http://smcollinsus.blogspot.com/2021/03/divine-worship-missal-chanted-propers.html

Here is an article about the project in The Portal:

https://www.portalmag.co.uk/read-online.php

March 2021 edition, pp. 10-11.

And an interview on the project from The Portal Podcast:

https://soundcloud.com/user-666404058/lent-5-passion-sunday?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/18732/anglican-liturgy-before-oxford Wed, 03 Feb 2021 11:46:42 +0000 Jehan_Boutte 18732@/forum/discussions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYpY8JHM7Uc&t=1294s
Apparently, this is how the Holy Communion was celebrated everywhere in the Anglican world prior to the Oxford Movement. However, this is a said service; I wonder how a sung service would be done.

Broadly speaking, how did the pre-Oxford Movement Anglican liturgy looked like? Most Anglican services I have seen were heavily influenced by Catholicism, with chasubles, incense, ad orientem and so on; it is especially with regards to the Sacred music (lots of plainsong). But was this the case prior to the 1840's? ]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/18547/compline-booklet-for-congregation Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:35:16 +0000 Salieri 18547@/forum/discussions https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/387/the-weather-forecast-done-in-anglican-chant... Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:39:37 +0000 Aristotle Esguerra 387@/forum/discussions
Listen]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/17722/ordo-2020-the-personal-ordinariate-of-our-lady-of-the-southern-cross Mon, 06 Jan 2020 01:45:00 +0000 Blaise 17722@/forum/discussions Ordo 2020: The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, published by Lulu. While we ordinarians do not have an official Divine Office approved by the Vatican as of yet available for public purchase (as I understand the situation), this is the closest we have to having one available to the public, approved on an ad experimentum basis by their ordinary.

I post this chiefly so that those interested in having an ordinariate prayer book for their personal prayer life may have one.

Consult your own pastor regarding use in public liturgies, such as Mattins, Evensong, etc.

(Disclaimer: I am not from the chancery or from any official church body.)

]]> https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/18300/american-gradual-missing-sundays Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:32:43 +0000 SumnerJenkins 18300@/forum/discussions