With the previous choir i directed, we learned the monastic Salve because the auxiliary bishop loved it. We all thought it was georgeous. Now I work at an EF parish and we sing the simple tones after the Masses because we want the cong to sing.
But you have me wanting to work these beauties in occasionally. They deserve to be sung.

Incidentally, my composition teachers claimed that it is the earlier incipit of the Salve, Regina (same in solemn and monastic tones) that inspired many composers in their works. Vague, i know. Maybe someone else has a more specific recollection of this?

Not getting anything from that link, Incantu.

I try to have our schola sing the solemn (or, in the case of Salve Regina, monastic) version several times during their appropriate seasons, but not at the end of Mass with the Congregation.

The importance of having the PIP's sing with us is too great.

Which reminds me of something that happened recently along those lines: we've been singing the Marian antiphons for two years now, and two of our servers (teens) recently served at a funeral. At the graveside, the priest invited everyone to sing the Salve Regina, thinking that only a couple of the elderly would do so, and it floored him when our two teen servers sang the whole thing from memory!

It works for me too now! It was probably a timing issue--perhaps when we last tried it the site was getting too much traffic, or was temporarily down.

The text is the same as the Ensemble Organum version that I love so much--! The tune does look different though... although I admit, I can't read these neumes. Is anyone fluent enough to take a stab at a recording??

in the case of my first post, I'm pretty sure it was because the Mass was specifically a Dominican Rite Mass, so they used a version peculiar to the Dominicans.