Was going to enter the exact same question until I saw your post dating from a week ago. Since the Litany of the Most Precious Blood has a 1960 date of Papal authorization, was there a pre-existing Chant form?
It was mentioned in one blog. However, the mention sad stated that the blogger's copy cannot be found. So I think there is a chant form, as did the Litany of the Holy Name. I've made a setting but a thought an official chant is more fitting.
Try contacting music directors and archivists of the various orders and houses still devoted to the Precious Blood. If you find something, by all means post it here.
Oh, thank you, I was rather apprehensive about posting my compositions here. I and my friend have composed a special "Litany against the persecutors of the Church" for our private recitation. I thought once of posting it here, but decided against the impulse. I hope this little contribution (Litany of the Precious Blood) may find its place somewhere in the Catholic world.
When can we finally get hold of the tone of this Litany? We in my schola will probably be using my composition (the second .pdf) come 1 July, which mercifully falls on a Sunday this year.
I want to make sure that proper credit is given to aldrich. My setting of the litany, posted above by Ben Yanke, includes the Versicle, Response, and Oremus sections taken from aldrich's .pdf above.
It's actually nothing, expeditus. I do not own intellectual rights over those parts, as I have said in my message to you. They are in the ancient simple tone, a modulation which part of our sacromusical patrimony. It's our common heritage. So use it with all gusto.
At Low Mass today we chanted the Precious Blood hymn from II Vespers, Festivis resonet. It is haunting, and the translation in Mass and Vespers does not come close to doing it justice.
Our women's schola and children's choir combined to sing a High Mass yesterday for the Feast of the Precious Blood. Thank you to all of those who answered my requests for the Litany of the Precious Blood, provided the accompaniment for "Salvete Christi Vulnera" ( Pedro d'Aquino), and posted the "Ira Justa Conditoris" chant (poster Ben Bruggink). Our choir was also able to incorporate the "Festivis Resonent" chant which Patricia Cecilia mentioned above. I agree that the translation is a catechism lesson in itself, as are the translations of "Salvete Christi Vulnera" and "Ira Justa Conditoris." You bloggers at Musica Sacra Forum really came through for us! The resources at Corpus Christi Watershed were invaluable, as well: Kevin Allen's "Ave Sacer Christi Sanguis" motet, and the NOH Proper accompaniments.
We sang in a sweltering choir loft, and it was a glorious Mass!
JonathanKK, back in 2011, I had contacted the Prior of the diocesan Benedictine order in Tulsa, OK, and was informed that the Litaniae Pretiosissimi Sanguinis was in the possession of a group of Benedictine nuns at the following address:
Unfortunately, I had no luck in getting a response from them, having tried both standard mail and email (both in English, not French). Another forum member whom I gave this info to, was going to have an acquaintance make a visit, in-person, but I never heard whether this was successful or not.
So, in answer to your question, there is reason to believe that an "official" chant version does exist.
The Benedictine nuns in Mont-Laurier moved to Saint-Hyacinthe in October 2011, due to the small size of their community and lack of new vocations; they reside in (part of?) the building of the Sisters of Charity there.
Folks, the quest continues. Has anyone got any new finds? My current best solution has been to use the last of the tones for the Litany of Loreto (Tonus alter as in the Liber Usualis).
I need help to identify the source of the attached version. It is in an undated/unmarked booklet entitled "The Healing Service and The Holy Hour - In the Eucharistic Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ".
The other litanies in the booklet are as follows: Litany of the Sacred Heart (mode 1 melody) Litany of the Holy Name (mode 3 melody, as in Cantuale Romano Seraphicum 1951) Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary (first tone as in the Liber Usualis, with a clef typo) Litany of St. Joseph (as in the Liber Usualis)
The tone itself seems stylistically uncharacteristic in some aspects: cadencing of the initial invocations on different pitches (and the Christe audi nos doesn't match anything else), and the use of the main body melody for the final Agnus Dei's.
So...
Who produced and used the booklet?
Where did they get this tone for the Litany of the Precious Blood, did they compose it?
The Healing Service and The Holy Hour - The Litany of the Precious Blood.pdf
Was the Litany of the Precious Blood approved to be used at public devotions? I don't think it was. So finding melodies will be an impossible task, because while such restrictions on public prayers are now mute, the modern Church is now more happy to recite such prayers in the vernacular.
One place to look would be any Passionist resources.
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