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Good Friday Communion
Does anyone have a melody to the aforementioned hymn: Laudes omnipotens ferimus tibi?

Comment by davido January 2016 permalink
Post your examples of excellent chant
Two of my favorites are: The World of Gregorian Chant - choir of the Carmelite Priory of London (from the cusp of the early music movement, decidedly British and mid-twentieth century in sound) Chant recordings by Pro Cantione Antiqua with James O…

Comment by davido December 2015 permalink
Organ/violin pieces?
The Mozart church sonatas are great if you have two treble instruments. Baroque solo sonatas are usually the way to go. Canzonas by Frescobaldi are very liturgically suitable, however, it is hard to find continuo realizations for them.

Comment by davido October 2015 permalink
Translator? (Francisce, Christi signifer)
Haha! that's great! I think the Gather version must be something they sang at a papal mass this week. I didn't actually need it in versified form, but now that you did it, I might set it to the chant tune. Thanks so much!

Comment by davido September 2015 permalink
Translator? (Francisce, Christi signifer)
The chant looks like this

Comment by davido September 2015 permalink
Thoughts on Vespers at Saint Patrick's Cathedral
Right Salieri! The true role of the cantor is as choir leader and choir soloist, not song leader!

Comment by davido September 2015 permalink
Thoughts on Vespers at Saint Patrick's Cathedral
The role of "cantor" in the American church is not at all correctly named. Cantors, including the gentleman at St. Patrick's last night, are functioning as song leaders. The term "cantor" has a long history and many historic…

Comment by davido September 2015 permalink
Another hymn to St/ Michael
Here is the scan from the New St. Basil Hymnal

Comment by davido September 2015 permalink
Hymntune 12.12.12.8
DAS HERRLICH HOHE FEST as found in the English Hymnal is a great tune in that meter. Probably too high for your average congregation though.

Comment by davido September 2015 permalink
Open Source Catholic Hymnal
I would love to be already using the hymnal this project will create! What can we do to get the project going? Can we set up the workflow we will be using, and create the necessary repositories so we can begin to contribute?

Comment by davido September 2015 permalink
Chanting the Little Office of the BVM
Here is what I have for vespers. It uses the famous tune for the Ave maris stella, rather than the simpler one that is for the Little Office. I apologize if there are any mistakes.

Comment by davido September 2015 permalink
Chanting the Little Office of the BVM
1. The antiphons usually list a number for the mode and a letter which corresponds to the ending. See this document: http://media.musicasacra.com/pdf/tones.pdf The letter on the Antiphon refers you to the psalm tone ending that will best return you…

Comment by davido September 2015 permalink
Mode VI Alleluia
Thank you all for your help!

Comment by davido September 2015 permalink
Open Source Catholic Hymnal
You are welcome to use the Lilypond hymn collection that I started as a jumping off point. I can try to move it all to GitHub, but I don't know anything about it and am swamped with school right now. I would be willing to engrave in Lilypond an…

Comment by davido August 2015 permalink
PD Hymn resource
It sounds like a great idea. Not sure I have any free time to transport it all over there. Plus, I think providing pdf scores is of more practical help to most people. GitHub deals with code only, correct?

Comment by davido August 2015 permalink
Help with a Course Outline - Music and Liturgy, History and Contemp. Issues
You could utilize the BBC sacred music video series. Not distinctly catholic, but it covers all the history, let's you hear the music, and shows the churches in which it was sung. Very professionally done.

Comment by davido August 2015 permalink
PD Hymn resource
Oh, I forgot about that. That was an old project, which proved too time consuming. It works ok as long as the melodies are basically syllabic, but it breaks down when you hit a melisma. Lilypond can't set neums very well.

Comment by davido August 2015 permalink

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