I found one on a schola web page, but I don't see their name on the program. I don't think they will mind me passing this on since they posted it publicly. I will see if I can find where I got this, though.

Thanks, Jeffrey. I'm also very interested in your new and improved version.

Someday, someone has to write an article in Sacred Music on this whole topic of Tenebrae. I find it incredibly confusing. The Tenebrae service service seems to have been affected by P12's Holy Week Reforms, the New Mass, the reforms of the Office, and a hundred other things, and I can't quite follow what happened or what should happen. When I put together that Tenebrae two years ago, I found myself sinking in a miasma of books and references and confusions, and the more I look for rubrics, rules, etc., the more confused I became.

So yes, this is an invitation to write!

For what they're worth, here's (URL below) links to Holy Thursday and Holy Saturday Tenebrae booklets in pdf I knocked up for ourHoly Week services last year. There are one or two glitches in the pointing (actually about 6, I think) but I'll get around to correcting them closer to Holy Week. If anyone's interested, they're welcome to the MS Publisher files that I distilled these from to customise for their own services.

Cheers,

Hugh

http://members.iinet.com.au/~hugh2/public_html/

Palestrina, thanks for this .... I'm v. glad they are of some use !

1. I do plan to complete a Good Friday Tenebrae, but not necessarily by Good Friday 2008, I'm sorry to say. Very busy this year till WYD/Juventutem is over (and Easter being the earliest possible week.) We don't normally do the Good Friday Tenebrae, as it clashes with our evening Holy Thursday service. But just for the sake of completeness I would like to get one done. If I get some spare hours, I will put it into that and if it is completed, shall let you know. Can't be more committed than that at this time, sorry.

2. I've done 4 big (A4) books for the whole liturgical year (3 x Temporal Cycle and 1 x prominent feasts Sanctoral Cycle. The Holy Week cycle you're after is in book II ) for our choir, BUT they may not be what you're after: 1. No English translations. 2. I've added lengthenings of notes (episemas, dots) according to interpretations of the Triplex. You see, our choir (I'm the director) has worked from the Triplex for the last 17 odd years, and so these books are the distillation of our consensus arrived at over that time, to save reinventing the wheel every year. So the books are very much a purely functional, localised version of the Liber/Graduale Triplex and definitely would not - understandably - meet with universal approval.

(The Tenebrae and Requiem booklets are somewhat exceptional in this regard, being just straight copies from the Liber, without any editing. But when we sing Requiems and All Souls', we sing the chant according to Triplex interpretations even though the congregations, insofar as they have music before them in the booklets have only the Liber versions. Hope that makes sense.)

Nevertheless, if you're interested in a look, let me know. They're quite large, so we may have to use Pando or some other means of large file transfer.

3. I am producing one-off booklets regularly, as we have, eg. Vespers once a month and other services such as Matins on Christmas Eve. Yesterday (Saturday before Holy Family) we had EF Pontifical Vespers with Bishop Peter Elliot (first in the Archdiocese in at least 40 years). I'll post the Vespers and Matins booklets on my website for you to see. [Again, not indicative of the big Mass books, as we're not working from the Gr. Triplex so there are no editings.]

4. [ Even more irrelevant to your request, but FYI ] I've also done mass leaflets for the congregation for every Sunday/ Feast of the year. I'll post our Epiphany booklet for your perusal.

Anyway, all the best.

Hugh

P.S. Thanks for Missa Brevis, Missa Papae Marcelli, Missa Assumpta Est, Sicut Cervus, Super Flumina, Jesu Rex Admirabilis, the Lamentations, etc. & Have you done anything since the early 1600s ?

Hugh, i agree with Palestrina, your booklets are awesome! thanks so much, I hope to be able to use them eventually.

I remember re-typesetting the entire Officium Majoris Hebdomadae et Octavae Paschae and got a 2000-page output. Now, I must find the book. It's somewhere in my boxes.

Just to chip in, before P12's Maxima Redemptionis categorically forbade the anticipation of the Tenebrae, the Office, according to the Caeremoniale Episcoporum, was celebrated progressively later each evening. On Spy Wednesday, the Caeremoniale prescribes 7:00 pm as a good hour to begin the Office. So the next ones would be around 8:00 pm and 9:00 pm. P12's reform effectively made it illicit for Allegri's Miserere to be sung in its proper locus.