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Veni Sancte Spiritus in English - traditional melody?
Not that you're looking for this particularly, but other forum readers might find the attached score useful with both the Latin and J.M. Neale's translation (per Commonwealth lectionary) set to the original plainchant.

Comment by GerardH June 2025 permalink
What compositions/arrangements are needed?
Through-composed a capella setting of the Canticle of the Sea from the Easter Vigil - ideally using the text from my preferred lectionary haha!

Comment by GerardH May 2025 permalink
Is a vernacular gradual (chant) licit?
Again, "...a collection of antiphons and Psalms" is USA specific, and doesn't come from the authors of the GIRM. Its interpretation, therefore, must rest with the USCCB. For the rest of us, the last paragraph of GIRM 61 reads Instead…

Comment by GerardH May 2025 permalink
Is a vernacular gradual (chant) licit?
To briefly entertain the off-off-topic-topic And of course, this leads me to the rhetorical question, how many “Uses” can we create? (do any of the other Catholic Rites of the church condone a variety of “Uses”?) @francis, we can see exactly where y…

Comment by GerardH May 2025 permalink
Is a vernacular gradual (chant) licit?
It has been suggested before on the forum that, being the most recent official translation thereof, the 1965 Roman Missal is a licit source for English graduals, tracts and alleluias. Regarding GIRM 61, it looks like "or an antiphon and Psalm …

Comment by GerardH May 2025 permalink
Antiphonale Romanum I antiphon error - Dicebant: Unde huic
You're the man, van Roode!

Comment by GerardH May 2025 permalink
Sunday Wedding Question (OF)
this Sunday Yep, I missed this

Comment by GerardH May 2025 permalink
Sunday Wedding Question (OF)
GIRM 372. Ritual Masses are connected to the celebration of certain Sacraments or Sacramentals. They are prohibited on Sundays of Advent, Lent, and Easter, on Solemnities, on the days within the Octave of Easter, on the Commemoration of All the Fait…

Comment by GerardH May 2025 permalink
Is a vernacular gradual (chant) licit?
The lectionary and the Latin are the only options between the readings. Also the Graduale Simplex, but your point still stands.

Comment by GerardH May 2025 permalink
Where to find English propers in Gregorian chant?
Given the OP is providing music for a campus ministry, I'd expect they're mostly looking at weekday Masses, in which case Weber's propers are the only set (as far as I know) which contains all the weekdays of Lent and Easter as well a…

Comment by GerardH May 2025 permalink
Need a tutorial for chanting the Divine Office
I stand corrected!

Comment by GerardH May 2025 permalink
Need a tutorial for chanting the Divine Office
That Breviarium Gregorianum* site is an incredible project. What I wouldn't give for a Universalis crossover...! *isn't that a self-contradictory title? A breviary, by definition, has text and no music.

Comment by GerardH May 2025 permalink
Bone Pastor by Thomas Tallis
@sdtalley3 I feel you. Only recently contributed my first edition to cpdl out of frustration with how egregious were the errors of James Gibb et al. It's an unfortunately involved process. I do sometimes feel bad about not contributing more—cp…

Comment by GerardH May 2025 permalink
Athanasian Creed in English set to Anglican chant?
While the venerable M. Jackson Osborn is right that Anglican chant proper is pointed as he describes, I am yet to find an Anglican psalter which points the Quicunque vult according to ordinary Anglican chant methods. Almost without exception, it is …

Comment by GerardH May 2025 permalink
At the Vatican: Latin responsorial psalm
Hugely ironic that the Graduale Simplex in usum minorum ecclesiarum seems to get the most use at the most maior ecclesia in the entire Church.

Comment by GerardH May 2025 permalink
Gloria Patri sung by assembly at Introit?
In the Ordinary Form the Gloria Patri isn’t sung in the Introit. [citation needed] Certainly the Gloria Patris are included in the new Graduale on page 822, under the subheading 'pro antiphonis ad introitum et ad communionem'.

Comment by GerardH April 2025 permalink
Homily Length?
The late Pope Francis was very insistent on a number of occasions that homilies should be no longer than ten minutes. And the homily must be prepared well; it must be brief, short! A priest told me that once he had gone to another city where his p…

Comment by GerardH April 2025 permalink
Cochereau Te Deum Transcription
@Xopheros, in my experience, only by clearing your cookies. Instead, I switch my mobile web browser to use desktop site in its settings, because I can easily switch it back again.

Comment by GerardH April 2025 permalink
new music director - recommended reading?
The General Instruction of the Roman Missal - it astounds me how few people with responsibility know what it actually says about music.

Comment by GerardH April 2025 permalink
Preces- Divine Office
@monasteryliturgist here is the Lauds preces tone from the AR1. It is fairly similar to the tone in AR2 for Vespers.

Comment by GerardH April 2025 permalink
Palm/Passion Sunday
@tomjaw if you're looking for the plural of cantrix, it is 'cantrices', pronounced CAN-trə-seez

Comment by GerardH April 2025 permalink
Palm/Passion Sunday
Hosanna to the Son of David - Weelkes Pueri Hebraeorum antiphons with psalms - Graduale Romanum All glory, laud and honour - ST THEODULPH Psalm to Anglican chant Christus factus est - Sartori (misattr. Anerio) Crucifixus a 6 - Lotti Improperium exsp…

Comment by GerardH April 2025 permalink
Orchestra and chant?
FWIW, Bartolucci's arrangement also has choral interpolations like Gouin's, except they don't follow the traditional arrangement of alternation. Example video here. EDIT: That recording might not have all the interpolations, so perha…

Comment by GerardH April 2025 permalink
Orchestra and chant?
Do Duruflé's Messe cum Jubilo instead

Comment by GerardH April 2025 permalink
Codex Budensis
@ServiamScores you're right that a lot of the pdfs didn't make it to the archive, but going to https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.lakewoodsound.com/quilisma/Codex%20Budensis/* and filtering results by '.pdf' will help narro…

Comment by GerardH April 2025 permalink
Codex Budensis
Digging around further (I was looking for falsobordoni), I found Bud's material was later on lakewoodsound.com until about 2019. It is also on the Wayback Machine here.

Comment by GerardH April 2025 permalink
Solfege with Transposed Chants
@francis Early Music Sources has this pdf which is fairly clear and might be of use. They also have a full video on solmization which I remember was quite good.

Comment by GerardH April 2025 permalink
Codex Budensis
Most of Bud's old website is archived on the Wayback Machine - it looks like the site was active until 2012. Follow this link and click through the website - hopefully you can find what you're looking for.

Comment by GerardH April 2025 permalink
We Songs
Hmmm, I don't know. The same criteria would eliminate Through the Red Sea brought at last and the first two verses of At the Lamb's high feast we sing because they speak in first person plural and do not directly praise God in their text (…

Comment by GerardH April 2025 permalink
We Songs
There is a big difference between 'We praise thee, O God' and 'We congratulate ourselves'. The first is obviously fine, the latter should be avoided. Songs like 'We are companions on the journey' should be consigned to …

Comment by GerardH April 2025 permalink

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