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When the sopranos are so out of tune
I moved a piece down a tone (PIMS Fr. Robert Mehlhart starts Sanctus VIII on F, we start at Eb) because the majority of my chant (not SATB) group are altos rather than sopranos. It helps a bit but I'm just beginning and need to revise all the l…

Comment by probe October 2025 permalink
Easy Sanctus ?
@marta_866 I see that is headed "In feriis Adventus et Quadragesimae et ad Missam pro defunctis", p.767 of the Graduale. That looks OK to me. And the Agnus Dei looks normal, "dona nobis pacem" rather than "dona eis pacem&qu…

Comment by probe October 2025 permalink
choosing polyphonic music: keys and editions
About italics : my understanding is that when original and translated lyrics are given, the translation is italicised so that the text is not seen as Verse 2. I don't have an official reference to that, but it's what I use. The MusicaSac…

Comment by probe October 2025 permalink
choosing polyphonic music: keys and editions
"But I don’t understand the conventions. Sometimes it’s one note on the original clef, sometimes not…" Do you mean sometimes the incipit shows one note, sometimes more? I think it's just whatever the transcriber thinks is useful, see…

Comment by probe October 2025 permalink
Easy Sanctus ?
Thanks very much TCJ, that's more than I had noticed! More exercise required.

Comment by probe October 2025 permalink
choosing polyphonic music: keys and editions
I think that most Palestrina masses are on cpdl.org in MIDI or even MusicXML so I would import it to Musescore, transpose in three clicks if needed, and press } enough times to widen the measures if the text is squashed up. (Off topic, but simil…

Comment by probe October 2025 permalink
Someone using MUSESCORE or other program capable of creating an XML from a .mid file
+1 to download the free Musescore Studio. If you don't want to get to grips with yet another piece of software, post the MIDI files here or PM me (if that can be done on this forum) and I'll gladly import and re-export as MusicXML. Reform…

Comment by probe October 2025 permalink
Mass XV Dominator Deus Sanctus video not found
Yes, for some reason I had thought this forum was connected to CCW. Did I mention that I'm new to this? :) I'll find Jeff Ostrowski.

Comment by probe October 2025 permalink
Easy Sanctus ?
Thanks TJC I don't see much repetition in Sanctus VIII, compared to Kyrie & Agnus Dei, just a similar descending phrase at the end of each line. Still, even that is something to mentally press Save on.

Comment by probe October 2025 permalink
Easy Sanctus ?
Thank you. Yes it's mainly rote, only a couple can read music. Not a problem, we've just started, but I don't want to discourage them with anything too hard.

Comment by probe October 2025 permalink
Legal Letters from the USCCB
Following up on WillWilkin.... Is this USA only? For English translations of the Psalms as copyrighted by (whoever)? Am I right to expect that Latin & Mass liturgy are public domain?

Comment by probe October 2025 permalink
ChatGPT "authors" a hymn...
The insta comments are delicious ;)

Comment by probe October 2025 permalink
Sancte Michael - Prayer to St. Michael Archangel, chant
Thanks GustavAhlman. That brought me to this post by BrotherMonk with the score ('All are welcome to use these Original Chants for God's Glory!'), a number of other performances, apparently of Spanish and French origin, and some vari…

Comment by probe September 2025 permalink
Pater Noster in square notation complete with Embolism?
By the way .... what is the practice for the words of the celebrant before and after the Pater Noster? They may prefer to read them in English as normal. Does anyone have a cantor singing them in Latin? I'm looking ahead, our group is nowhere n…

Comment by probe September 2025 permalink
Pater Noster in square notation complete with Embolism?
I have now combined the PDFs and have the complete sequence. Small print but it does all fit on one page. And a two page version for larger print double sided printing.

Comment by probe September 2025 permalink
Pater Noster in square notation complete with Embolism?
Thanks @smvanroode. I now realise I intended to post in Gregorian Chant General but wasn't paying attention to the thread I was in at the time. I could probably edit the patenoster to paste in the quiatuum. BTW is there a way of editing a pos…

Comment by probe September 2025 permalink
Pater Noster in square notation complete with Embolism?
They could host them on their own website. But as you say discoverability means having to be where the audience is.

Comment by probe September 2025 permalink
Pater Noster in square notation complete with Embolism?
Quia tuum est regnum.pdf

Comment by probe September 2025 permalink
Sancte Michael - Prayer to St. Michael Archangel, chant
Thanks for all the sources @Verbum_gloriae. (Lower case l : an argument for monospace font in the prompts! Or at least use a capital which is fairly standard in documentation and understood to be lowercase.)

Comment by probe September 2025 permalink
Sancte Michael
Thanks, John, I had started the original chant version and now see why it is harder. I must note to use your version next year.

Comment by probe September 2025 permalink
Jean de Brebeuf Hymnal availability in Europe?
Thank you @PaxMelodius, I had just automatically tried .co.uk.amazon.com offers €39.72 including postage. The publisher total is $122.89, I guess they're not used to exporting!

Comment by probe September 2025 permalink
Generic or Seasonal Communion Antiphons?
I see that many people have more musically relevant handles. I should have picked 'Josephus' but I'd better stick to what people have seen now :)

Comment by probe September 2025 permalink
Generic or Seasonal Communion Antiphons?
I appreciate all the contributions. This is an ordinary parish choir, I think 'interim' here may mean my entire term of ministry :-)

Comment by probe September 2025 permalink
Parallel Latin - English Ordinary of the Mass (OF Novus Ordo)
That is so nice, @smvanroode, I won't even need to reformat them! Thank you.

Comment by probe August 2025 permalink
Recordings of pre-Gregorian chant ?
Thanks all for the detail, and especially for the Chant Wars link on Spotify. I had the idea that singing the whole line on one tone, with maybe an incipit and final, preceded the melodies of GC. If it's not possible, that's fine, makes it…

Comment by probe August 2025 permalink

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