Year C Psalms in Anglican chant
  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    Continuation of an earlier thread. Extra eyes and proofreading most welcome!

    Here are Epiphany, and OT 2 & 3 (Baptism seems a good time to give the choir a break and use George Jeffrey's solo setting of Psalm 104.)

    The 3-fold division of text is something I ran into at Holy Family C; I wonder if there's a name for the neither-single-nor double-chant of my Brahms adaptation.
    PsalmOT2C3C.pdf
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    PsalmEpiphany.pdf
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  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
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    I've run into this 3-fold division problem before, but I've always used either a 4.4.6 or a 4.6.6 solution. I've never used a 4.6.4 solution such as yours. With the third line of verses 2 & 4 having quite a few syllables, I'd be more tempted to try a 4.4.6 or 4.6.6 solution. And I don't know a name for this sort of setting.
  • GerardH
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    I wonder if there's a name for the neither-single-nor double-chant...

    Sesquituple chant?
  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    Very plausible, Gerard ;-) Chuck, which 4.4.6 and 4.6.6 tunes do you resort to?

    Here's OT 4 & 5; the lectionary's starting the second chunk of Psalm 138 in mid-verse seems boneheaded to me: Douay
    [2] I will worship towards thy holy temple, and I will give glory to thy name. For thy mercy, and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy holy name above all.
    becomes
    (refrain) [I will do those things…] 2. because of your | kindness | and your | truth.
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  • lbowman
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    Hi, all. I'm a bit new to the forum, and I just recently discovered Anglican chant. I'm currently trying to get my choir away from the St. Noel Chabanel Psalms (from CC Watershed) and especially away from the old Gather hymnal's psalms (with the horrific word changes). So, thank you for doing these! I wish I could offer some useful critique, but as I said, I'm new to the Anglican chant. I would definitely be interested in seeing more of these. :)
  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    Edits to above: missing inner voices for OT 4 respond; & missing barline for OT 2 verse 3.
    OT2345CPsalms.pdf
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  • M. Jackson Osborn
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    There are indeed chants which exceed double chants in length..
    Quadruple and triple chants may be found in a very few books of chant, but really are very scarce.
    I have a book which has a few,
    The book, which has a black cover, is The Anglican Chant Book and is published by Novello.
    This may be of little help, for the title, or one very similar to it, is shared by quite a few books, all published by Novello.
  • M. Jackson Osborn
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    I don't understand why people who have a feverish itch to create something new by taking something old, another's fine work, giving it an unneeded treatment and expecting every one bestow kudos on him or her. Just as when somone might put a Porsche engine in a, say, 1940 Packard and calling it 'improvement'; all the while expecting high kudos for their word bashing or cleverness. A sorry attempt at making what is paraded as art or ingenuity. But art has not been made -two things have been molested.
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    I don't understand why people who have a feverish itch to create something new by taking something old, another's fine work, giving it an unneeded treatment and expecting every one bestow kudos on and him or her. Just as when some might put a Porsche engine in a, say, 1945 Packard and calling it 'improvement'; all the while expecting high kudos for their word bashing A sorry attempt at making non art. But art has not been made -two things have been molested. Things are what they are only when they and what they were created as.
    a perfect description of the NO.
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  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    OT 6 & 7.
    OT6C7C.pdf
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  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    OT 8 C
    OT8C.pdf
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  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    It's that time of year again when I crave a break from Guimont: OT 18-20.
    OT 18-21 C Since by man.pdf
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    OT 22 & 23
    OT21C22C.pdf
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  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    OT 24, to Allegri now we have a little extra rehearsal time (apologies for gross typos in tenor)

    OT 25 & 26 to double chants

    Do any of you occasionally use Stainer's Sonata Appassionata chant? Apparently a lot of Victorians happened to know one another: I was just reading The Progress of Assyriology and decided to look into the biography of one of my childhood heros, the egyptologist E. A. Wallace Budge. Guess who his mentor was at St Paul's?
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  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    27 C & 28 C (revised Sept 25. Let's just say I was deliberately testing to find out if anyone else was proofreading ;-)
    OT2728C.pdf
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  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    29C & 30C (actually "the | guär- | dian of | Israel." or even "the guär- . dian of | Isra- | el."would be closer to our Californian idiom.)
    OT2930C.pdf
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  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    31C & 32C, to an Elgar double chant.
    OT3132C.pdf
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  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    All Saints
    AllSaints.pdf
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  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    OT33C, XR/Advent 1A
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  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    Advent 2A, 3A;3C;4A, Conceptio BVM

    Advent 2 erratum: bar 3 of Camidge's psalm tone begins of course with b-flat in alto; bar 9 tenor should read f g es as g

    Immaculate Conception: verse 2 line 3 should go thru "kindness", but look for a thoroughly repointed version in a Year A thread.
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    Advent3A4A.pdf
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  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    Revised Xmas, BVM, Epiphany.
    PsalmXmas.pdf
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    PsalmBVMEpi.pdf
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  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    Not getting much crowd-sourced proofreading feedback here, but the choir and I find these (Xmas-Baptism C) go better thus:
    ChristmastideCPsalms2024.pdf
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  • Mattspmusic0320
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    I like the gospel acclamations. Just an editing not, it might be easier to get a feel for the Alleluia if it were also notated with Neumes. The verses may also benefit from a couple of barlines. I think those two things could "lower the barrier" to entry.

    Is a complete collection available anywhere? I like what I've seen so far.
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