@smvanroode

Sorry. Let me clarify. I am talking about the antiphon that pairs with the 3 Old Testament Canticles in what is called "Vigils" for those who want to extend the Office of Readings. In OCO 1983, the specification is on:

Appendix I
Antiphon Ad Cantica Vigiliarum = OL CANT

Hope my question is clearer.
Isaac.

Thanks.. the answer for Feria V would I think be the same for Tempus Quadragesimae...The older OCO 1983 had proposed one antiphon for all of Lent. If you don't mind and you find it on the OCO 2015, could you let me know?

As for:
Feria VI in Passione Domini: Iesus clamans (CAO 3487)
I can't find this online, so I guess I'd have to use the OCO 1983 Adoramus the Christe instead.

Regards,
Isaac.

I've just updated antiphonale.net with the OL-antiphons for Lent and Easter tide. The codes for the antiphonae ad cantica follow a different scheme. So the antiphon for Good Friday is found under "09VSOlC" and for Holy Saturday under "10SSOlC" -- 09 resp. 10 are the positions in the list of such antiphons in the OCO, VS and SS probably mean "Venerdì Santo" and "Sabbato Santo" (Italian for Good Friday resp. Holy Saturday)

Thanks so much @smvanroode and @joerg
Perhaps I should just get the OCO 2015 so I don’t need to keep bugging you both.

Would both of you like to compose a book with all of these chants with the psalms? I could put them together in inDesign. Will take some time but for a good cause...An attempt to make a Les Heures Grégoriennes with Office of Readings.

Let me know if you’re interested.

Isaac.

Hi. Over the years I have found that the Hour of Matins/Vigils has rarely been sung and even if it is in some Benedictine Monasteries (Schema A), it tends to be in recto tono unless there is a big feast. Very rare, anyhow.

While we can all debate on the 'worthiness' of the Reform of the Roman Office, it has to be said that in theory, the Modern Roman Office is far more singable since it is much 'shorter'.

This is where I find that unlike the other Hours, the Office of Readings has not been given 'adequate' attention as to its usefulness in adding solemnity to the daily office...Why the Invitatory Antiphon alone is 'glorious'.

My idea is to have at least a 4 week psalter for the Office of Readings for Ferias and Memorias. No, I do not think the readings should go on it simply because it will make it too thick and in this age of mobile devices, that can easily be held in hand for reading / recto tono chanting if it is so desired.

It will not have anything that can be found in the Liber Hymnarius. As for vernacular, since the English speaking world hasn't yet approved one translation to be used throughout (USA vs Commonwealth) for the Revised LoTH, I think it would be better to leave that out until later. So for now, just Latin.

Basically, there is just nothing online in the form of a book for anyone who wants to sing the Office of Readings. There is also that nice addition for Vigils on Sundays and Feast Days where a Gospel Passage can be read (or sung)...bells and whistles.

Isaac.

While we can all debate on the 'worthiness' of the Reform of the Roman Office, it has to be said that in theory, the Modern Roman Office is far more singable since it is much 'shorter'.

on the other hand, the books don't exist, or they have taken so long to come out that people just went back to the older office; even certain monasteries of the English Benedictine Congregation frequently use the AM1934 for Vespers, taking another antiphon for Gospels that don't occur in the Sunday cycle. Some of that latter circumstance might be aesthetic and based on a dislike of the reform (though the reformed office has about the same amount of material for monks using a weekly psalter, which is the point in question), but in any case, the older office is also more singable because more recordings exist, which is how most people get into the sung office, whether or not they were aware of the office before finding recordings.

I think this holds true even without Youtube; just look at the number of albums available from the pre-digital era of recording.

I've produced such a modest private edition of an antiphoner for the upcoming Easter season (until Ascension). The TeX code was generated automatically from the codes on antiphonale.net, the chants on gregobase and a pdf version of the Liturgia Horarum which I have found some time ago on the internet (on a very respectable site, but meanwhile withdrawn). The line breaking and page breaking is horrible, the compile time is also horrible because the chants are downloaded from gregobase on the fly. The TeX-code is here, the pdf is here. This is part 2, part 1 contains the recurring pieces -- hymns and short responsories.

Many thanks joerg!

There's another antiphonale for the Easter season here.

The antiphons on calithes.it are sometimes different from those of the OCO. E.g. the 3rd antiphon for the Easter tide is "Venit Maria nuntians discipulis quia vidi Dominum aeuia" whereas in the OCO it reads "Venit Maria nuntians discipulis quia surrexit Dominus aeuia" .

Actually calithes.it is Frans Kok's domain.

Since in some parts of the world tomorrow is Ascension Thursday here's an update to my antiphoner for the Paschal season: DeTemporePaschali. It includes the offices for the entire season (except Compline). Furthermore I have enhanced usability by adding links within the pdf for jumping to the recurring parts (hymns and responsories) and a clickable table of contents.

The antiphons given in the OCO for these positions are all marked "Sol". So they are not original Gregorian pieces but free compositions by the monks of Solesmes. These melodies haven't been published so far, so for the time being they remain unknown. Frans Kok in his "Laus divina" gives classical antiphons instead with texts similar to the OCO texts. These are the ones that I have used. If you want to strictly follow the OCO you may of course compose your own melodies which will probably not be any worse than the Solesmensian ones.