Compilation of Tenebræ Lesson tones?
  • xmarteo
    Posts: 4
    This year at public Tenebræ in my parish, two of my schola members, to my surprise, said they didn't feel comfortable singing lessons - not lamentations, but the lessons in the 2nd and 3rd nocturn - on account of not having a score, but only the pointed text and a cheat sheet with the cadences.

    I personally vastly prefer singing lessons from the text alone than from a fully notated score, but to each their own.

    I am well aware of the 1934 Cantus Lamentationum, but it has only the lamentations as the text suggests - and it does not have the Roman tone found in the Liber Usualis and in the 1922 Holy Week ed.typ.

    Is anyone aware of a book that would have both the Roman and Hispanic Lamentations, and full notation for the other lessons, in all three Lesson tones?

    If it does not exist, I will self-publish it, it will be less than a day's work.

    Searching this forum yields a few PDFs but no complete results. The closest seems to have been Hugh https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/profile/170/Hugh with his publications on Fidelity Books, but they are no longer listed by Fidelity Books, plus his booklets only had one tone for each lesson.
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 3,485
    I have the Roman tones. I will send you some stuff later because it’s in a private git repo.

    I don’t have the Hispanic Lamentations or the patristic tone (what is the other tone?) but shoot, if you have them, then I’ll trade.
  • xmarteo
    Posts: 4
    For the record, by "all three lesson tones", I mean the ordinary tone, the solemn tone ad libitum, and the ancient tone, as specified (with their Hebrew/monosyllabic cadences) in pp. 30*-38* of the 1912 Antiphonale Romanum ed.typ.

    There are no specific guidelines as to what tone should be used when (except the solemn tone: "on more solemn feasts" which arguably fits Tenebræ) hence why notating all 18 N2/N3 lessons of Tenebræ in all three tones might be useful.

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