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@CGZ Tenebrae before the deformers ran riot was anticipated, just as many of the other Liturgies this week... So we always sing Tenebrae on Wednesday evening (6pm GMT), this year we will also sing the Tenebrae of Holy Saturday on the evening of Good Friday at 7.40pm GMT.

Commentary here, https://archive.org/details/V06TheLiturgicalYear/page/297/mode/2up

It is rather effective to start singing just before dusk, and as the daylight disappears, the lights in the church become the only light, towards the end the lights in the church are extinguished with each verse of the Benedictus leaving the one candle that disappears behind the altar... The darkness then makes the strepitus rather more effective...

We did ours this morning. Hopefully the schola will double in size and be less reliant on just one or two people for the melismatic chants. We did everything except the responsories according to one or the other melodies, including the Lamentations, and one of the readings was sung with the patristic tone. Morning voice prohibited using a more elaborate tone for the Lamentations, but there's interest for such things. I'm simple: give me the Roman tone. (We — I — sang In Monte Oliveti to the chant, and I almost did Seniores Populi, but it's a little trickier, longer, and it starts lower — I keep the dominant on G for Matins and Lauds, A or, if I'm ambitious, B-flat for day/evening offices).

I struggled to see some of the words. My eyesight is not bad by any means, but things are fuzzier, so I went to go run off a copy of the booklet on the Pre1955HolyWeek website… the copier needed cleaning, and I wasn't messing with it at 5:40.

sigh Yes, obviously it's not as logical, but you have a choice in most places between Tenebrae or the offices which are unfortunately pushed later and later. I wish that I could convince our pastor to anticipate Good Friday and Holy Saturday (there's no real restriction on the former, and the latter need not be moved up to before the mid-to-late afternoon) to fit in Tenebrae and Paschal Matins at a reasonable hour.

I attended Tenebrae this morning at St Peter’s in New Hamburg. Everything according the 1962 Liber, except that the Lamentations were sung on the Mozarabic tone. The lections and responses were (beautifully) sung by three priests and a lay brother: the Psalms and antiphons etc were also sung antiphonally by the faithful in the pews, of which we were perhaps two dozen. During the Benedictus the electric light was turned off as well as the lights extinguished on the stand: not much tenebrae resulted, but it didn't matter. It took about 2½ hours.

Tom,
If the Pange lingua is misattributed to Palestrina, to whom is it properly attributed?

"A morning”Office of Darkness” seems so illogical."
Yes, and even more illogical to light the new fire and sing "Haec nox est in qua ... Christus ab inferis victor ascendit." on Holy Saturday morning. When anticipating events liturgically we need to be very sure our words are true.

Then we need to not read the Passion before Good Friday. Nobody objects to this practice, but they get in knots over the Easter Vigil. I will say it again: no one who would prefer the traditional rite and its anticipation denies the incongruity, but the 1955 reform created another ahistorical one, and the 1969 reform doubled-down on this in a weird way: you omit so much of the office of Holy Saturday that, because of the requirement to say one hour of the day hours, you might not say the office until None, so you must say Lauds. At least it is supposed to be said on Easter morning; I have no problem with anticipating it, as it happens, but it is better not to skip Vespers only to say Lauds that night; at that point you might as well pick up where you left off, which was a missed opportunity to say the least.

Worse, I think, is the criticism, because it either comes from an ignorance of the Eastern liturgy or a desire to shape it to the Roman: the Byzantine churches, to this day, anticipate the baptismal liturgy in order to anticipate the liturgy of Easter day during the night. They do not generally repeat anything in the morning.

No, there's not really, and this argument was made, and often still is, made in entirely bad faith, based on the hermeneutic of fabrication. The vigil was never the only Mass, it never began near dark or after dark, Matins was never omitted. There is no Matins of twelve prophecies read anywhere else in the year, nor any office of twelve readings of any sort: this just disappearing and leaving only Easter wouldn't have likely happened all at once without leaving a trace.

If they had fixed the problem in 1955, then cool, I guess can live with not anticipating the service to the dawn hours of Saturday morning, though transferring Paschal Matins to the next morning is a pain, and the morning services were very much widely attended; I surmise that in the most prodigious churches such as Westminster Cathedral, Matins was sufficiently well-attended so as to make it public, when they could have sung it at a more inconvenient hour and not publicized it. But no, Matins is gone and appended to the Mass is Lauds, finishing very late. That's the worst solution possible.

The Westminster Cathedral Triduum timetable in 1939 (wartime, though heavy air raids had not yet started) can be seen here.

Good Friday at St Bede's, 16 servers all but two under 20 years old. 5 Ladies, 10 Men, and 3 children in the choir

Solemn Liturgy 11.30 am
All as in the G.R. 1924
Sung Passion, Victoria setting
Popule Meus, Chant
Crux Fidelis, Chant verses with polyphonic Crux fideli / Dulce lignum refrain
Vexilla Regis, Chant
Com: In monteo livis consito (Sorrowful Mysteries Office Hymn)
Com. motet, O caput Cruentatum (Hassler setting/ are. Bach)
Followed by Vespers sung Recto Tono

We will be back to sing Tenebrae later!

EDIT,
Tenebrae @ 7.45pm GMT
All sung in full from the Festa Majora, 1925 / Liber Usualis 1945
We had 3 sets of cantors, and 5 men singing the Lamentations, Lessons, Antiphons, Responsories and Psalms. This took 1¾ hours this evening. We are exhausted!

The Vigil and Easter Sunday are up next!

Pax, would you be willing to post your psalm 22 score?

Presentation of the Lord Catholic Church
Montgomery, Texas
The Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter

Good Friday

Tract - from The Saint Peter Gradual
Gradual - Christus Factus Est, Graduale Romanum
Passion - said
Solemn Intercessions and Collects - said

Adoration of the Cross -
O Crux Ave (Dubra)
The Reproaches, Victoria, with Palmer-Burgess chant interpolation
Crux Fidelis, Mode I, with refrain on PICARDY
Adoramus Te, Christe (Dubois)

Communion - Miserere Mei, Z 109, Henry Purcell, in alternatim with Psalm 22, Tonus Peregrinus
Post-Communion - O Sacred Head, Sore Wounded (PASSION CHORALE)

Very pared down, since our 82 year old priest runs two parishes, and the other got the 8:30 slot, so 1hr 3min for the Vigil,
but from the Isle of Man - Caisht sonney dhyt
(how the p of pascha becomes c in Gaelic/Gaelg is a mystery to me)

@davido I don't think I can post it here as I used the new translation from the Abbey Psalms and Canticles... but maybe I can share privately?

Holy Thursday - "Guitarish" Mass, lots of Taize, Crown Him with Many Crowns, Panis Angelicus - Franck (a cap, which made no sense and sounded terrible - one of the servers leaned over to me and said "I miss your choir"), Pange Lingua in English (James Quinn translation - I have preferences for other translations but it isn't too bad)

Good Friday - pro choir, sopranos were pretty bad but were all I could find since people were pulling out on me for various reasons.
Full chanted Tract
Christus Factus Est - Bruckner (as the Gradual before the Gospel - very effective)
St John Passion - Victoria, in English
Reproaches - Victoria
We were supposed to sing the Crux Fidelis but I found out that individual veneration was moved to after the service.
When I survey the wondrous Cross
My Song is Love Unknown (all 7 verses)
O Vos Omnes - Victoria

Easter Vigil (NO, 7 readings), same choir as Friday
Deacon sang the Exsultet - he's been ordained 12 years but this was his first time doing it
Tracts 1, 2, 4, 7 chanted
Tracts 3, 5, 6 choral settings by T. B. Armstrong and Jerzy Cichocki
Gloria from Missa de la Batalla Escoutez - Guerrero, with fanfare
Sung Epistle
Solemn Alleluia chanted with verse from the GR, we also did the other two verses in English (I know, not kosher, but we wanted all of the verses, so that's what we did)
Litany in English (I almost did Latin but changed my mind while doing the program)
Spoken blessing of Baptismal Water until the dunking of the candle when he started singing (apparently he turned to the MC at the beginning and said "I'm not singing all that", to be fair, it was late and we were all tired especially since this was his first Easter at this parish)
Vidi Aquam - Victoria
Offertory: Light's Glittering Morn bedecks the Sky - Horatio Parker (this was an absolute blast)
Sanctus, Agnus I, sung Lord's Prayer and Embolism in English
Communion: Pascha Nostrum - GR
Dum Transisset - Taverner
O Filii et Filiae (congregational)
Concluding: That Eastertide with Joy was bright (Lasst uns Erfreuen) with descant
Lanquetuit Toccata

Easter Sunday - skeleton crew, three of us (including myself) in the loft. It was a pretty nice program though - it was two of my best singers and even though it was simple it was quite nice.
Prelude: Gigue Fugue BWV 577
Jesus Christ is Risen Today
Introit from the GR
Gloria VIII (with 15 second fanfare - it's Easter, I know it's not kosher but I figured there was no reason I couldn't do it...)
Vidi Aquam - chant
Be joyful Mary, heavenly Queen
Sanctus, Agnus from A Community Mass - Proulx (I thought I'd give the congregation this one... but we'll be back doing Mass I full time next weekend)
Pascha Nostrum - GR
Hail thee, festival day
That Eastertide
No postlude, as the next choir for the next Mass was coming in and there was no time for it... but the pastor and I are trying to find a way to eventually move everything to tradition, get rid of the praise bands, etc

All things considered it was a pretty good Easter.

Mine is not a very participatory parish, when it comes to singers. Right now, without Seminarians, I have one regular singer. He caught the flu, or something flu-like, and missed Veneration of the Cross on Friday and the Vigil.

SO, Saint Rita of Cascia in New Orleans (Novus Ordo) had three singers: our paid cantrice (who is WONDERFUL) my one male singer (who is actually Jewish) and me. Let me see if I can get it all from memory, I'm tired.

Mass of the Lord's Supper
Introit: Galatians 6:14 by Michael Lantowski
Gloria: Holy Angels Mass by Brian Michael Page
Psalm 116 by Marcy Weckler Barr--subject to change next year.
Gospel Acclamation by Adam Bartlett
Washing of Feet:
1. Antiphon #3 Richard Rice-Choral Missal
2. Antiphon #4 Richard Rice-Simple Choral Gradual
3. Antiphon #5 Samuel Weber-Ignatius Pew Missal This one was not used as Father was done by the time we finished the second antiphon.
Offertory: Ubi Caritas chant mode VI --verses in English.
Ordinary: Mass XVIII/ICEL chants--Latin
Communio: I Corinthians 11:24-25 from Psalm 151 Brian Michael Page
Reposition of the Blessed Sacrament : Pange Lingua (PANGE LINGUA GLORIOSI 87 87 87; Thomas Aquinas; Chant Mode III) Verses 1-4 in English from Ignatius Pew Missal

Good Friday
Psalm 131: Howard Hughes (accompanied by the organ using 1 8' stop)
Gospel Acclamation: Adam Bartlett (a cappella)
Reproaches: Richard Rice Simple Choral Gradual
Restoration of the Blessed Sacrament: Adoramus te Christe by Charles Giffen.
I sang the cantus, Sarah sang the alto--her choice.

Easter Vigil
Exsultet from the ambo - me
Liturgy of the Word
Readings 1, 3, 5
Psalms: Fr. Weber, Ignatius Pew Missal
Gloria: Holy Angels Mass Brian Michael Page
Alleluia: Ye Sons and Daughters for the refrain--tripartite NEXT year--with chant verses

Litany of the Saints led by Sarah my cantrice
Response to the Blessing of the Water and Baptismal Acclamation--chant from Ignatius Pew Missal
Wash us with Fresh Water from Mass of Redemption Steven Janco. Me singing the ostinato, Sarah playing the flute.
Offertory: Psalm 118 Simple Choral Gradual (Richard Rice)
Mass Ordinary: Holy Angels Mass
Communio: I Corinthians 5:7-8
1. page 172 Christ Our Passover (Aristotle Esguerra)
2. #82 Alleluia! Alleluia! Hearts to Heaven ( HYMN TO JOY 87 87 D; Wordsworth; Beethoven)

.At the retiringChrist the Lord is Risen Today (LLANFAIR) to change things up this year


Easter Sunday
Ye Sons and Daughters
Gloria: Holy Angels Mass
Psalm 118: Alan Hommerding
Victimae Paschali Laudes verse 1 in Latin, balance in English.
Gospel Acclamation: In Honor of Father Martin Jenco Jon Naples

Sprinkling:
7:00 a.m. (Me alone) Simple Choral Gradual Richard Rice
9:00 and 10:30 (With Sarah and Hank) Janco
Offertory: Psalm 76 Simple Choral Gradual (Rice)
Ordinary: Holy Angels Mass
1. page 172 Christ Our Passover (Aristotle Esguerra)
2. #82 Alleluia! Alleluia! Hearts to Heaven ( HYMN TO JOY 87 87 D; Wordsworth; Beethoven)
3. (10:30 only) Ave Verum Corpus chant

At the retiringChrist the Lord is Risen Today (LLANFAIR) to change things up this year

Also: Tenebrae (Matins and Lauds, LotH) was sung on the Mornings of Good Friday and Holy Saturday.

St David of Wales, Richmond California

Good Friday 4:00
Father, into thy hands I commend (Parish Book of Psalms)
Christ became obedient (American Gradual)
Passion according to John (Victoria)
Reproaches (Victoria)
O Sacred Head (at distribution, a cappella)

Saturday: 2-5 White's Tenebrae & other Eton choirbook sight-reading with friends in a resonant parking garage, followed by a quick meal and 7:00 rehearsal in church for:

Easter Vigil 8:00
7 lessons as described elsewhere, but with Guimont for the Alleluia/Confiteor
Schubert Deutsche Messe
Yo vi un agua/I saw
César Franck Dextera Domini
Hoc corpus (American Gradual), That Easter Day with joy was bright PUER NOBIS, Regina caeli (simplex)
Jesus Christ is ris'n LYRA DAVIDICA

A question: does anyone get through 7 Lessons in less than 3 hours? We had 4 singers left by the end of the service.
I suppose I wasn't the only one thinking "Pharaoh's officers submerged in the Black Sea" while singing "Red".

Easter Sunday
8:00
The strife is O're VICTORY
Schubert Deutsche Messe (sprinkling occurred during Gloria)
Guimont This is the day
3fold alleluia mode VI
Terra tremuit (American Gradual)
Christ our Passover (ibid)That Easter Day with joy was bright PUER NOBIS, Regina caeli (simplex)
Jesus Christ is ris'n LYRA DAVIDICA

11:00 as above, but at Off. César Franck: Dextera Domini

A question: does anyone get through 7 Lessons in less than 3 hours?

We did all seven and we're done in about 2.5. We did have baptism and confirmations too. We are a smaller church building, so the communion line wasn't very long though.

We did seven readings and were done in just under 2.5 hours. Two confirmations (my convert grandparents!), no baptisms.