I chant the attached in English, which I like because it uses the Gregorian melody. Don't use it for the Latin; there is a misspelling at the end of the first staff. I don't remember where I found it.

The sequence is not intended to be sung by the assembly. The sequence is an odd thing to expect the assembly to join in singing because people aren't expecting to have to sing at that moment, and since it occurs only once a year it has to be something the assembly can catch on to immediately, which means it has to be simple or even simplistic, which usually distorts the text of the sequence.

Not every piece of music sung at Mass needs to be sung nor singable by the assembly. The drive to promote manic assembly participation in singing (and publishers' drive to sell new music) has resulted in the loss and neglect of beautiful, more proper liturgical and sacred music at Mass.

Mark,

I don't think you're correct that the Sequence isn't supposed to be sung by the assembled lay faithful.

Consider:

In the Ordo of Paul VI, the congregation is supposed to do everything, and without the congregation doing is not anything done which is done, except for the Consecration -- and the German bishops are working on that.

In the older Ordo (no matter the vintage) the assembled lay faithful aren't regulated by rubric, but by custom, and in many places singing was part of the custom. Furthermore, the melodies are simple enough that attentive people can learn them. (As evidence, my boys, when they were younger, would simply break into song -- and sing the Dies Irae, which is a Sequence -- in whole or in part.

We use one that is nearly exactly what Mark posted. I like the translation and the chant melody is lovely.
Unfortunately, my boss does not permit us to sing the sequence at Easter or Corpus Christi. I will attempt to sneak it as a second communion hymn this Easter.

GIRM 64 directs that the sequence is mandatory on Easter and Pentecost. It's not up to "the boss" whether it's permitted: it's mandated to be sung before the Alleluia by the authority of The Roman Missal.

Unlike the Sanctus/Holy, a sequence is not part of the ordinary of the Mass.

The people's parts in the Mass ordinary properly belong to the assembly; the propers of a particular Mass, not so much.

MarkB, I am fully aware of what the missal says. I happily chanted it for 10 years at my last parish.

I have been at my current parish for 5 years. My boss does not let me do it.

I pushed back my first two years here, and it only upset him. What am I to do about it?
I am the sole provider for myself and three children. This particular liturgical offense is not worth losing my job over.

The people's parts in the Mass ordinary properly belong to the assembly

Pace MarkB, but allowing the people join a plainchant Victimae from their hymnals seems an awful lot less regrettable than loosing all polyphonic ordinaries.

In years past we have just done the actual Victimæ Paschali without any frills, however this year we are going to spice it up quite a bit with an arrangement of my own, in the style of Chanoine Jehan Revert (former cappelmeister at Notre Dame Cathedral), with a few organ interludes and a few spots sung SATB, however we are going to sing straight chant rhythms rather than turn it into a metrical hymn as he did. Will still be good fun, however.

Some years we do Latin, some English (it depends on what way the gnu-church liturgical winds seem to be blowing). If English, we use #183 in "The Hymnal 1982", which is what we're doing this year.

I'm going to go out on a limb here, acknowledging that I'm at an ICKSP apostolate, so not perhaps typical of the rest of the country: when the question "what do you use for the Easter Sequence?" has an answer other than "The Easter Sequence".... there seems to be something amiss.

When I was younger (and more stupid than I am now, and also more naive) the idea of a new-composed melody for the Exsultet was intriguing, but I finally decided to go with the approved English translation and the official melody. I only sang the text when requested by a pastor who acknowledged that he didn't have the voice to do it properly and when, in a different parish, the alternative was a gentleman who had no discernible faith.

Now, this evening, a semichorus of my choir will sing Feroci's Dextera Domini, in place of the chant, so I'm clearly not of the opinion "Chant and only chant" at Mass, but I rejected the idea of replacing the Sicut Cervus text for Saturday, electing to have a (different) semichorus sing Rick Wheeler's edition of anonymous' Sicut Cervus supplementarily. Why do we need to find alternatives to the Sequence, since it comes but once a year?

Hopefully my answer above was sufficiently clear; like CGZ, I don’t believe in replacing the sequence with something else. My arrangement is just a dressing up of the actual sequence itself. Not something else entirely.

See pps 3-4 of the attached, which gives the Ordinariates' text from Divine Worship, set to the traditional plainsong melody. I sang it in England, but I don't doubt members of the Ordinariate of St. Peter did so in North America. I hope Chaswjd will be pleased to see it follows the Alleluia.

What gradual is this from, IanW?