Cistercian chant books
  • ProfKwasniewskiProfKwasniewski
    Posts: 242
    Dear Friends,

    Probably some (many? most?) of you have seen by now that I have put some very fine rare Cistercian chant books up for sale at New Liturgical Movement: http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2015/01/books-for-sale4-cistercian-books.html

    All the other books I was selling last week were snatched up quickly, but so far there's been less interest in the Cistercian books. And yet, these are some of the most beautiful and most rare that I have ever seen.

    If you might be interested, please contact me -- or if you can think of anyone (monk, chant scholar, medievalist, liturgist) who might be interested, please send a note in his or her direction.

    Many thanks, all,

    Peter
  • quilisma
    Posts: 136
    You could try the Medieval Musicology site:
    http://gregorian-chant.ning.com
    There's some specialist interest groups there, including one on Cistercian chant.
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  • ClemensRomanusClemensRomanus
    Posts: 1,023
    I would love them, but I just can't afford hem right now. I'll ask some of my colleagues around here, though.
  • ProfKwasniewskiProfKwasniewski
    Posts: 242
    Quilisma, thanks for that link.

    ClemensRomanus, thanks for spreading the word.
  • Jacques PerrièreJacques Perrière
    Posts: 139
    Hello,
    An old (1899) edition of the Graduale Cisterciense was scanned and made available here: http://splendorveritatis.org/

    It was mentioned in this forum two years ago:
    http://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/7982/
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  • wjcb112
    Posts: 20
    If you want a Cisterican Chant book, why not look at a modern one which is actually in print? If you visit the bookshop, sorry the Klosterladen at Heiligenkreuz Abbey just outside Vienna, you can buy a very nice Cisterican Psalter (in Latin, all Offices spread over 2 weeks) for just under Eur50+postage. ISBN 978-3-902694-83-6. The hymn tunes are great.

    In my experience, some of these chant books from German speaking countries are also available from non-German online booksellers - the magnificent Antiphoners from Munsterschwarzach Abbey certainly are.

    http://www.klosterladen-heiligenkreuz.at/liturgia-horarum-ordinis-cisterciensis-psalterium-per-duas-hebdomadas-distributum.html
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  • igneusigneus
    Posts: 376
    @wjcb112 "why not look at a modern one" pffff modern! Not traditional! Liturgy created at office desk! (insert random rant at reformed liturgy and excuse a troll who doesn't know how to make his trolling purple)

    Thank you very much, I haven't had a clue that this is available.
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 2,206
    There is apparently an O.Cist. breviary on Ebay.
  • igneusigneus
    Posts: 376
    @wjcb112 "why not look at a modern one ..." (2nd take) Do you know that the psalter distribution used in Heiligenkreuz (and reflected in the splendid little volume available at the monastery shop) isn't used in any other Cistercian monastery?
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