Announcing the completion of my Entrance Antiphon Hymns Project. At a glance, here are some features:
1. A hymn for literally every day of the year (saints, memorials, commons, seasonal weekdays, etc) 2. Multiple settings per solemnity - very familiar tunes 3. Organ/choir scores, text only, JPEGs and PDFs of melody for worship aids 4. Musescore source files for transpositions. 5. Both Missal AND Gradual antiphons for each Solemnity (minus a few of the super long ones from the GR ). Sometimes both combined into one hymn. 6. Antiphon AND accompanying verse from Roman Gradual and a doxology. 6. Spiral bound organ book on Lulu press. 7. Public domain tunes and harmonizations (or my own) to allow... 8. Completely free usage, licensed under creative commons.
These are very well done. I've been perusing them a bit and I'm quite heartened with how well so many of them work.
I only have one quibble and that is with how they were engraved: it is standard practice to not have staff lines cutting through the text when setting hymns (ie- like a hymnal).
When I read the initial post, I immediately thought of Greg Heislman, and my conversation a few years ago encouraging him to collect and share his wonderful adaptations. I am so grateful to all involved to make this happen. Hymnals have been CoVid-lifted from all the churches around here, so this will be a resource to recommend highly!
Since these first popped up on Noel Jones FB group during Advent, I have used them nearly every week. They have become my "go-to" at St. Rita of Cascia, New Orleans. Luke and Greg, THANK YOU!!!
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