Preces- Divine Office

monasteryliturgist

Im wondering if anyone has on hand a variation of different tones for the Intercessions (Preces) for the Divine Office in Gregorian? We have a few different ones but I was asked to explore a little more for Holy Week to make it more solemn...

igneus

Preces are IMO the very last thing in the Divine Office that should be solemnized / musically elaborated.
Also historically the office of the Holy Week is no high season of elaboration and embellishments. Rather the opposite.

monasteryliturgist

@igneus Im aware of that... but when a Superior asks you... :)
She basically just wants something different from what we ordinarily do I think

smvanroode

The Antiphonale Romanum I and II use two different tones, one for Sunday Lauds and one for Sunday Vespers.

FKulash

We use the intercessions from "Like Burning Incense" from Gethsemani Abbey. The tones for the intercessions are all formulas for one accent with zero, one or two preparatory syllables. The responses are simple, modal melodies (not formulas). This thread includes a link to DropBox for themusic, with organ accompaniment.

monasteryliturgist

@smvanroode is there a pdf of the Lauds we only have the vesperale. I had tried doing a search online but did not find anything.

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@monasteryliturgist here is the Lauds preces tone from the AR1. It is fairly similar to the tone in AR2 for Vespers.

ClemensRomanus

Here are the preces from the Prières Litaniques.

Seems like the file’s too big to attach. I’ll put it in a Dropbox folder and attach a link.

ClemensRomanus

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fL1RkoZ6bddqtq9Mq6966z_06VUIoxj-/view?usp=drivesdk

File contains the tones for the Deprecatio Gelasii.

monasteryliturgist

@ClemensRomanus Wow thats great. Thank you so much!

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