Need help getting started with singing Compline
  • cmhodge
    Posts: 1
    Hello everyone,
    I started a "garage schola" about 6 months ago. We meet half an hour before the regular choir rehearsal (I am not the choir leader, but the choir leader has given me full support). We have sung through a number of hymns, and have done a little bit of psalmnody. I would like to try out singing the office of Compline. I think to get started it would be great to have something to print out and distribute that would have a complete service from start to end (without flipping back and forth between pages). Do you have any suggestions? I have one that was linked to here by Dan F. which looks pretty good.

    Also, since this is a pretty casual group (so far!) I would like to keep it as simple as possible, in terms of not having only a few versions of the office in our repertoire. Are there any resources that would have meet this need? Again, I'd like to have something where the singers wouldn't have to flip around the booklet.

    Any comments would be appreciated!
    Thanks,
    Chris
    Thanked by 1Ioannes Andreades
  • smvanroodesmvanroode
    Posts: 995
    Such booklets are found online (and for free!) on my website: www.transitofvenus.nl/LiturgiaHorarum/. Scroll down to "Ad Completorium in dominicis et sollemnitatibus": these are booklets for Sunday Compline which can be used without the need to flip back and forth.

    I see I didn't point the psalms in these booklets, however. In the full version the psalms are pointed, but you have to flip back and forth. If you would like to have a customised booklet according to your wishes, just contact me!

    Steven
  • Jeffrey TuckerJeffrey Tucker
    Posts: 3,624
    The colloquium packet from last year has a full version too, and the packet this year will too.

    if you are new new form, the Compline book from Ignatius is wonderful, in my view.
  • BenBen
    Posts: 3,114
    Is this something that would be helpful? In each page spread, it has latin on the left, and english on the right, and everything is notated, in square notes. It's really nice, and doesn't require much flipping.
  • a1437053a1437053
    Posts: 198
    Ben Yanke (and all), another mp3 project request:

    REQUESTING: recordings of the ordinary parts of Weber's Compline.
  • a1437053a1437053
    Posts: 198
    No timeframe whatsoever, if possible, English, then Latin.
  • smvanroodesmvanroode
    Posts: 995
    Recordings of (Latin) Compline can be found every day at the website of Radio Vaticana: http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/en1/on_demand.asp?gr=ltg. For the music, see the free booklet at http://www.transitofvenus.nl/LiturgiaHorarum/booklets/LHCompl.pdf.
  • BruceL
    Posts: 1,072
    Father Samuel Weber also has an order for Sunday Compline that he did while here in St. Louis. Perhaps he would be willing to share?
  • smvanroodesmvanroode
    Posts: 995
    I also have an English edition of Compline, composed by Fr. Columba Kelly. It is, however, not yet ready for publication. Stay tuned (or better, regarding my busy time schedule: be patient).
  • roseannetsullivan
    Posts: 7
    Where could I find an online source for Compline that includes all the chants for each day? I would like the ability to create Compline booklets for different days of the week, say Tuesday.
  • smvanroodesmvanroode
    Posts: 995
    Here you go! LHCompl-2.pdf (Latin only). You can also buy this book on lulu.com.
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