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...
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.
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.
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