Chanted rosary?
  • Geremia
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    ¿What's the chant for the Ave Maria in the sung rosary @3:57:19 here:
    ?

    Is this the standard way to chant the rosary?
  • MatthewRoth
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    The one known from the Chartres pilgrimage, although not actually sung as written by the late Gérard de Rosny.
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  • igneusigneus
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    The Ave Maria tune sounds a bit funny in a formal setting like this.
  • Geremia
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    @MatthewRoth, yes, it does have a catchy pilgrim feel to it.
  • Geremia
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    @igneus, yeah, it didn't fit with the more familiar Gloria Patri chant they sang.
  • MatthewRoth
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    Maybe but they often do that in the Francophone context.
  • Geremia
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    @MatthewRoth: Is a score of Gérard de Rosny's setting available somewhere?
  • Geremia
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    Are there standard chants for the rosary?
  • tomjaw
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    The Divine Office Hymns for the Feast have verses for each mystery, and there are a set of chant antiphons to introduce each mystery. Of course these are for the Dominican Rosary...
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  • Geremia
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    Q. Did medieval people sing the Rosary in Gregorian chant?

    Evidently they did. Historical literature abounds with references to “singing” or “chanting” the Rosary, as distinct from “saying” or “reciting” it. For example, St. Louis de Montfort writes, “There are several ways of saying the Holy Rosary, but that which gives Almighty God the greatest glory… is that of saying or chanting the Rosary publicly in two groups (c’est de le psalmodier ou réciter publiquement à deux choeurs).” (10) Significantly, De Montfort does not use the verb chanter (“to sing”) in this passage, but rather psalmodier, a term of art specific to the singing of liturgical chant. Its literal meaning is “to Psalmodize” or to sing Psalms.

  • MatthewRoth
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    I don’t know. psalmodier means to sing the psalms antiphonally but recto tono in modern parlance.
  • RoborgelmeisterRoborgelmeister
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    Cantus Selecti
    https://media.musicasacra.com/books/cantus_selecti.pdf
    has antiphons for the mysteries of the rosary (pre-dating the Luminous mysteries).
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  • OMagnumMysterium
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    I got this book for Christmas a couple years ago:
    https://www.amazon.com/Sanctissimum-Rosarium-Cantu-Rosary-Chant/dp/1965303684/ref=sr_1_1?sr=8-1

    It's an interesting novelty, but I haven't actually used it. The settings are a combination of the traditional Latin texts with traditional chant tones, but it has no historical basis, if I understand correctly.
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