Breviarium Gregorianum: Breviary with Scores
  • Geremia
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    About the Breviarium Gregorianum Project

    About

    Breviarium Gregorianum groups together the Gregorian scores of the Divine Office according to the Catholic Breviary in force in 1962. The scores come mainly from the Liber Antiphonarius and the 1961 Liber Usualis published by the Abbey of Solesmes.

    It is still in an early beta, not everything is implemented for the 6 available offices and Matins and Complines are not yet available. Please consider donating if you want to support the development of the project.

    Breviarium Gregorianum was designed and coded by myself, Yanis Ouakrim, PhD student. It is mainly aimed for the prayer of the Divine Office at the Collégiale Saint-André in Grenoble by a group of laymen led by Thierry J..

    It is a friend project of Vespero Generator that provides vesper booklets for all the main feasts and sundays of the 1960 breviary.

    Breviarium Gregorianum relies on other projects namely:

    TLDR:
    Breviarium Gregorianum groups together the Gregorian scores of the Divine Office according to the Catholic Breviary in force in 1962. The scores come mainly from the Liber Antiphonarius and the 1961 Liber Usualis published by the Abbey of Solesmes.
    Related projects:
    Thanked by 3Lincoln_Hein Chrism Palestrina
  • Kai_Breskin
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    I am interested in donating to the project. How much would need to be fundraised for the project to include the pre-pian breviary circa 1910/1570?
  • BGP
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    This is awesome!
  • MatthewRoth
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    Kai, it needs a lot. Like, making sure that the pre-1955 office is on there first.

    My qualm with doing pre-1910, whether that be 1568 or 1910 or in in between, is that there are very few sources which have enough restored music that we can agree on. Gerhard Eger did a valuable service in putting together the little book the Psalter of the Roman Office. But it’s got some monastic melodies and such out of preference. I do disagree with that choice. It’s not like Matins where Matthias Bry has had to start if not from scratch than almost so: you have the question of Tenebrae, Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, and Corpus Christi have Matins with which people are decreasingly familiar in that order, then the rest is a combinations of the restitutions of the scholar Dominique Crochu and then Peter Sandhofe’s work for new pieces as well as editing any other later compositions such as antiphons. It’s one thing to do the Tridentine office. It’s another to depart from the common points of post-1911.
    Thanked by 1tomjaw
  • Palestrina
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    Yanis, this is superb - thank you so much.

    For those of us using the 1962 books, to have everything set out so clearly and simply is fantastic. It’s an absolute game-changer for small communities that do not sing the office regularly.

    A few small requests and points of feedback (if I may). It would be terrific if there was an option to have all psalm, chapters, collects (etc) verses notated in full and the capacity to print to PDF.



  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 3,210
    Psalms and chapters are given when you switch to the detailed view. By default because they’re in France it gives (with the correct Amen tone!) the ancient solemn tone ad lib. which can be used any day except the Triduum and on All Souls. But for Sundays and feasts you may use the festal tone. That’s more complicated, and the flex and mediant are tougher to program, even if you default to the Solesmes practice for Hebrew words and monosyllables. (I think it less complicated to program the solemn tone but it’s not perfect.)
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