Practice MP3's for Compline, please, please

MikeHoulder

I'm sure this request must have been made before; but I didn't succeed in finding any reference. I apologise if this is the case.

It's a big task, particularly for me, to sing the Hours. I have very little natural ability and so must practise incessantly before taking the big step of singing in Church; even if I take care that no one else is there except Our Lord.

I'm having trouble at the moment with 'Alma Redemptoris Mater'. I can't reach the high notes. I need a practice recording which is shifted down somewhat.

Also I can't get around 'In Manus Tuas, Domine', particularly the current tone but I need all if possible.

And then an MP3 of 'Te Lucis Ante Terminum', the old 3 verse version for Sundays, January 14th to Lent, Tone No 1.

As my main sources, I am using a 1961 Liber Usualis copy in English and the Universalis Liturgy of the Hours app for tablet computers.

I think it's important and I really do need this help. Obviously I'll come back to ask for other elements.
Many thanks
Mike

JulieColl

Mark,

Did you check gregorianbooks.com? Don't know if this will help, but Jacques has the texts of Sunday Compline there.

There's a Te Lucis Ante Terminum recording on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrHWr_CcvKU

Hope you find what else you're looking for; I'd be very interested in finding recordings of Compline as well.

JulieColl

Mark, perhaps you can PM Jacques Perriere and ask him if he might make some mp3's for you if he's available. He helped me out with some propers a few months ago.

smvanroode

You can always listen to a recording at Vatican Radio. The only drawback is that you cannot browse previous recordings; only Compline of the day is available.

Robert

This is a good recording of Compline from the Liber Usualis:

http://youtu.be/blOICb8XmiA

vogelkw

I use Fr. Weber's Compline book. With it you can chant night prayer in Latin or English. I have recorded a full week in English here.

smvanroode

And there is also Ad Completorium, with authentic Gregorian chant according to the Ordo Cantus Officii (1983).

Fr. Weber's book has some neo-Gregorian antiphons.

tomjaw

This blog may help, I believe the writer is a member of this forum.

http://orkneychant.blogspot.co.uk

If needed I can try to get my computer to record my family singing Compline.

Adoremus

@ smvanroode

Thank you so much for making the Liturgia Horarum chants available for download on your site. I am also hoping that your wonderful Antiphonale project will also be made available. God bless your work.

JulieColl

Tomjaw,

I'd love to hear a recording of your family singing Compline if you could ever arrange it. We have a group of families that is interested in learning to sing Sunday Compline. I've been listening to the monks of Le Barroux on their website and it seems eminently doable.

MikeHoulder

Thank you so much all of you for your kind and helpful replies.

I didn't realise the range of variation of different tones and versions.
Tomjaw, that is a truly remarkable offer and it may well be the best solution.
But let me explore all the possibilities that I have been given here.

God bless you all and shelter you under the pinions of his wings.
Mike

tomjaw

For the 1962 Compline this book should help, sadly the instructions are in German but all the music you need is here,

http://www.introibo.de/download/gratisschriften/komplet.pdf

I prefer not only to use the pre-1955 calendar, but also the rubrics. Generally this means that the doxology of the Hymn "Te lucis ante Terminum" changes depending on the season. At the moment we have just swapped for the Christmas doxology to the Epiphany one.

If you would like to make things even easier you could use the pre-1914 reform compline which uses the same psalms (Sunday) everyday. There are a few other differences.

This can be found on pg.65 onwards in this book.

http://media.musicasacra.com/pdf/antiphonale-bw.pdf

N.B. The other melodies and the special doxologies for the Hymn will be found in the Temporal section, under the relevant season / feast.

P.S. Will look into recording!

MikeHoulder

Here are 3 scores(?) transcribed from my Liber Usualis using the French software Gregoire. They could be neater but I am still very pleased with the result.

The issue is that I have no lack of scores (if that is the right word). I need to compensate for my lack of natural singing ability by having a recording (MP3) of someone singing the hymn. This I play on my computer endlessly while I try to sing along with the recording. Eventually after many many repetitions I seem to reach of a level of singing that is just about adequate to repeat in church. What seems to happen is that some musicality enters my voice and with notes that are at least approximately correct in pitch.

The files here are 'Alma Redemptoris Mater', 'Te Lucis Ante Terminum' and 'In Manus Tuas Domine'. The problem with 'Alma Redemptoris Mater' is a little different to the others. With this, I have trouble on the high notes of "... populo: Tu que genuisti, ..." as it is sung in the recording I have.

I'm an ex-pat Brit living in central Argentina and there is very little help available locally. I've been trying to find a music teacher for ages.

Why this project to be able to sing as much of the Liturgy of the Hours as possible?

Well, I love the music. But more than that, with a stumbling explanation, it seems important to participate in the Mystical Body of Christ extended in time and to join with all those holy people of past ages.

In Christ
Mike

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