With great fanfare and jubilation, I announce the publication of the Saint Romanos Psalter, a complete setting of the Lectionary Psalms for the Ordinary Form. This project has been in progress for several years, and I am also pleased that Daniel Mitsui accepted the commission to provide an original drawing as cover art.
You can obtain hard copies and/or digital downloads here:
If you’d like to see a sample setting or two first, please PM with your email. And thanks to all the many lights on this forum who have provided much guidance and wisdom over the years!
Here’s the foreword and front matter; a brief essay on the cover art and the premises on which I based my compositions. Only Nixon could go to China; so only a Gregorian chant scholar could say Gregorian melodies don’t fit English! It’s a bold claim, but I think I lay out my rationale pretty well in the attached document.
For the record, I’m a devotee of Gregorian chant! I founded a men’s schola, I’ve introduced it everywhere I’ve worked, I can sightread straight from the Graduale, but this project is different.
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