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Ordo Cantus Oficii in Gregorio
The current version of the raw data for the antiphons is to be found here: antiphonale.net/idx_202607.csv

Comment by joerg July 31 permalink
gabc gregoriocolor red notes?
A hack like this would work: initial-style: 1; annotation: {\gdef\red{\pdfextension literal{1 0 0 rg}}\gdef\black{\pdfextension literal{0 0 0 rg}}}; %% (c4) \ do(c) re(d) me(e) {\red}fa(f){\black} so(g) la(h) ti(i) do(j) If you want just the note…

Comment by joerg June 10 permalink
What's the source of this melody?
See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du09BcRXY6k

Comment by joerg December 2025 permalink
Space between lines in Illuminare?
Lanudell: in your gabc code there are blanks before the and after the . You should remove these blanks. By the same hack you can also get additional space after the caption.

Comment by joerg October 2025 permalink
Space between lines in Illuminare?
You can replace all the AL's with AL\vtop to 3cm{\hsize=0cm} -- replacing the "3cm" with whatever vertical distance you want.

Comment by joerg October 2025 permalink
Antiphonale Romanum (2009) question
Frans Kok has these antiphons for the Salus canticum: Laudem dicite resp. Virtus nostra.

Comment by joerg September 2025 permalink
Gregorio/LaTeX - Trim empty staff at end of line?
I would write a file Lectio.tex with the following content: \input gregoriotex \let\GreFinalDivisioFinalissav=\GreFinalDivisioFinalis% \def\GreFinalDivisioFinalis{% \GreFinalDivisioFinalissav{}% \pdfextension literal direct{q 1 g}% \rlap{\v…

Comment by joerg May 2025 permalink
Gregorio/LaTeX - Trim empty staff at end of line?
You could add the following lines to your tex file: \let\GreFinalDivisioFinalissav=\GreFinalDivisioFinalis% \def\GreFinalDivisioFinalis{% \GreFinalDivisioFinalissav{}% \pdfextension literal direct{q 1 g}% \rlap{\vrule width \hsize height 2cm}…

Comment by joerg May 2025 permalink
Lentini books on hymn reform
Here's a scan of Te decet hymnus.

Comment by joerg January 2024 permalink
Help with automating book compiling
The file GR61_out.tex consists of thousands of lines of the form "\includeGB{132}{IN}", i.e. "Download the gabc file with id 132 directly from Gregobase and typeset it as Introitus". You can of course replace each of these lines…

Comment by joerg July 2023 permalink
Help with automating book compiling
In LuaLaTeX there's incorporated a programming language Lua which can be used for tasks like this. Here's such a TeX file with an embedded Lua program. It parses the raw data of Benjamin Bloomfield's Mass Propers Tool and produces two…

Comment by joerg July 2023 permalink
Help on using Gregoriotex in a complete book
Yes, in this project i only use \gabcsnippet. By "generate the pdf from the files" do You mean precompiling the gabcs to pdfs and including these into the project? But then You can't have page breaks within a piece. At times i use ano…

Comment by joerg June 2023 permalink
Help on using Gregoriotex in a complete book
From www.antiphonale.net/OCO.zip You can download the complete GregorioTeX sources for the OCO2015. Maybe this helps.

Comment by joerg June 2023 permalink
Long shot: need help with a bit of Latin in the OCO2015
In the OCO2015 the antiphons for first vespers are taken from the biblical book that will be read during the following week at matins. In the Antiphonale Romanum II (which only contains vespers), however, the antiphons for first vespers are taken fr…

Comment by joerg June 2023 permalink
Help: I Involuntarily became Schola director
If you can spend some money I'd suggest that you buy the 15 CD collection Narrabo omnia mirabilia tua. (EUR 150) curated by Johannes Berchmans Göschl. He used to be assistant to Dom Eugene Cardine in Rome, the founder of the so called semiologi…

Comment by joerg May 2023 permalink
Unusual accidentals? In my antiphons? It's more likely than you think.
This is the so called transposed 7th mode. In the usual 7th mode the sequence of two whole steps on the syllable -ra- can not be notated. So one can either transpose the piece down a fourth (Cf. e.g. Caro mea: gregobase 10086, Me suscepit: gregobase…

Comment by joerg April 2023 permalink
Gregorian Antiphons- Feast of St. Therese
They are on p. 905 of the OCO.pdf Here's the gabc-code for these pieces: (c3)Ad(e)vo(e)cans(h) Ie(g)sus(h) pár(i)vu(j)lum,(i) \greheightstar(,) stá(jk)tu(j)it(i) e(j)um(i) (,) in(h) mé(hg)di(f)o(g) e(h)ó(if)rum(g) et(f) di(e)xit:(e) (:) Ni(fe)s…

Comment by joerg April 2023 permalink
Chant antiphons for Office of Readings
The season of Lent doesn't have proper antiphons for the Office of Readings. So for the Sundays of Lent we have the same 3 antiphons as for the Sundays of Ordinary Time: 1. In lege Domini 2. Praedicans praeceptum 3. Tu es gloria They are found …

Comment by joerg March 2023 permalink
Latin rite hymnals with Greek printed in Greek script?
Eta like "bear": That's the classicizing pronunciation which was introduced by Erasmus of Rotterdam. Previously it had since Hellenistic times always been pronounced like "beer".

Comment by joerg March 2023 permalink
Latin vespers antiphons
Here's the most recent version of the OCO with melodies. Thanks to diligent proof reading by members of this forum it's been possible to eliminate many errors found in a previous version.

Comment by joerg February 2023 permalink
First time using Texworks and it's not going great
TeXworks can be used with any version of TeX, including LuaTeX and LuaLaTeX. I've attached a screenshot of a LuaTeX file in tw (I don't use LaTeX, but if you have a LuaLaTeX file you just select the LuaLaTeX engine from the dropdown in the…

Comment by joerg February 2023 permalink
Antiphonale study
The PhD thesis by Ursula Stoffler -- another scholar of the Regensburg school -- is the most upto date study of these antiphons. It's recently been published as Die Antiphonen des Wochenpsalters (in German obviously). It's available as eBo…

Comment by joerg December 2022 permalink
oco.pdf
I have uploaded indexes with page numbers for invitatories, antiphons and short responsories: oco_idx.pdf. (The pages with melodies are underlined.) @smvanroode: My next step will be to add links to the sources, but it will probably take some time.

Comment by joerg September 2022 permalink
oco.pdf
Just click on the title of the chant and you're redirected to the page with the melody. This should work in any PDF viewer. (Going back seems to work only in the Adobe Reader for desktop)

Comment by joerg September 2022 permalink
GABC code
f@h@gh~

Comment by joerg August 2022 permalink
Looking for chants for Office of Readings on Pentecost
www.calithes.it

Comment by joerg June 2022 permalink
Minor Hours T.P.
You may want to have a look at this booklet. It contains everything for Easter tide except Compline.

Comment by joerg April 2022 permalink
What hymns to use on feasts and solemnities outside ordinary time? (Liturgy of the Hours)
According to the OCO it's p. 24 on ALL days ("Pro cunctis diebus") between Christmas and Epiphany.

Comment by joerg December 2021 permalink
OCO MMXV The Ferial Antiphons
I think, I can finally answer this question: The OCO index has 2 entries for the antiphon Caro mea requiescet: "Caro mea requiescet 1" for Office of Readings on Holy Saturday (OHS 315, 7th mode) "Caro mea requiescet 2" for Compl…

Comment by joerg October 2021 permalink
Looking for the antiphon "Ecce positus est hic in ruinam"
You can find it on page 33 of the Carthusian Vesperale: http://www.chartreux.org/la/scriptum/vesperale_cartusiense.pdf You may also find it in my index to the OCO: http://www.antiphonale.net/IDX.csv This index contains melodies (in gabc format) for …

Comment by joerg October 2021 permalink

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