This is the short response to the readings of the little hours of the divine office.What is "responsorium breve" ( 1.3 p. 5) and which parts of the Mass does he indicate could use this method? What makes them different from the "antiphonal" parts?
3. The ideal of the "Graduale Romanum". Another ideal is to found "scholae cantorum", in which Gregorian liturgical pieces may be learned and sung with the utmost diligence, performing as much of the repertoire of the Graduale Romanum as possible. This requires intensive preparation on the part of dedicated professional singers, fully competent in reading music. Such an ideal can only be realised in cathedrals, monasteries or in a few large parish churches, and even in such favoured places, most probably only at one daily Mass. Elsewhere, the aim can be no more than to sing, with considerable advance preparation, one or two pieces of the Graduale on a few selected feasts or Sundays.
I would recommend rather the universal use of the Missa Mundi (Kyrie 16, Gloria 15, Sanctus-Agnus 18 of the Liber Usualis, plus the Ambrosian Credo).
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