Solemn Tone Salve Regina (FSSP)
  • AndreaLeal
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    Hi all, I just came across this Salve Regina being sung by FSSP seminarians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9livz4E4rks and I love the drone they are doing. We just started our men's schola here in Las Vegas and I would love to teach this to them. Do any of you happen to have this written in either modern or gregorian chant notation? Thanks!
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  • MatthewRoth
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    I assume you are looking for the Salve Regina written out?
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  • chonakchonak
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    The Salve itself is easy to find: e.g., in The Parish Book of Chant.

    Incidentally, one of the chant study tracks at the Sacred Music Colloquium coming up this month in St. Louis is about expansions of unison chant into two-part improvisations like this.

    There's a good chance that the version those seminarians are singing isn't published, but an adaptation devised by someone there.
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  • Arthur Connick
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    Here is the score for the Solemn tone Salve Regina from the Liber Usualis.
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  • SponsaChristi
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    Chonak is correct that what they're singing is not published. Some of the seminarians in the schola are from our Latin Mass Community and when they come home for the summer or at Christmas they help us with our schola and will randomly break out and do this stuff during practices.
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  • BruceL
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    Very pretty! I may be corrupted by semiological influences, but the video in the OP seems rather slow, for what it's worth.
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  • AndreaLeal
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    I always find it impressive when anyone can improvise. Maybe I need to "let go" of my dependence on written music and try to do the same with my men's group, and fiddle around with some drones. I suppose some things, like FSSP seminarians, probably cannot just be copy-pasted into one's own parish. Thank you, all, for you input. I appreciate it!
  • AndreaLeal
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    Matthew - I was hoping for the Salve written out along with whatever harmony they are doing in the video. :)
  • CGM
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    I don't think they're improvising. There were several voices on the drone(s), and they were all moving together cleanly. Perhaps that's the seminary's standard "performance practice" of that venerable chant.
  • dyenerdyener
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    AndreaLeal, I've attached my transcription of what they are singing. It wasn't horribly difficult to hear since there are only two vocal parts. The drone pitches are indicated in red. Let me know if you have problems reading it; it looks okay in Mac Preview.

    Thanks very much for drawing attention to this video! I always thought the Salve would sound great with a drone but never got around to working it out myself. Don't feel bound to do it exactly the same way if you can find ways to make it more musically interesting!

    (As an aside, I much prefer the "monastic tone" of the Salve Regina, also found in the PBC 2nd edition; the melody and rhythm seem to flow better, as is common in the later work of Solesmes in the 1934 Antiphonale Monasticum.)
    Solemn Salve with Ison.pdf
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  • Arthur Connick
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    The "monastic tone" Salve Regina, via this link.
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  • AndreaLeal
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    Dyener, thank you so much for attaching your transcription, this is very helpful!!! I'm very grateful!!

    Arthur, thank you for the monastic tone Salve!
  • JulieCollJulieColl
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    I've always loved this tone, and the Salve Regina a 4 by Lotti which echoes it, if I'm not mistaken.
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