incantu:

The latest from the USCCB Committee on Divine Worship is that the NAB will remain in Lectionaries until the Lectionary is revised.

Currently, according the Secretariat, there are no plans whatsoever to revise the Lectionary.

So, whenever we receive a new Lectionary, the Revised Grail will appear (for the first time). Whether this is 5 years away or 50 years, nobody knows. However, the "Revised" Grail is allowed to be SUNG during Mass. Some have suggested that (perhaps) in ten years they will begin work on a new Lectionary.

Those of us who have daily masses write our own psalm settings using the models like that shown above. After years of writing, I have a good collection.

The Lumen Christi Missal will contain Responsorial Psalms for ALL Daily Masses in the Proper of Time and the Proper of Saints, including the entire Commons. Choral editions with verses will first be found online, coming shortly, and additional volumes will follow in print. If anyone has specific needs in the meantime, please contact me.

Hi bgeorge77 (et al.),

I'll be making these editions more generally available soon on my website [cantemusdomino.net] in due time, but I do not have the software to bookmark PDFs at this time.

This collection is offered as a more permanent, simpler (formulaic), chant-based alternative to Respond & Acclaim (thus the mimicked page layout) as well as an all-in-one alternative to the Guimont and Grail/Gelineau Responsorial Psalm collections (which do not incorporate Gospel Acclamations).

The printed editions will also include SATB arrangements of the Gospel Acclamations, whose modes will correspond with those of the Alleluias and Tracts from the Roman Gradual (just like the Responsorial Psalm modes correspond with the Gradual modes). (Most of the triple Alleluias are sourced from the Simple Gradual.)

Currently I am developing the following editions:

— Comprehensive edition (coil-bound softcover, ~300pp.)*

— Choir Folio Editions by Season, plus Solemnities & Feasts (saddle-stitch/stapled softcover, 42–88pp.)
—— Advent/Christmas (to Baptism of the Lord)
—— Lent/Easter (to Corpus Christi)
—— Ordinary Time, Sundays 2–17
—— Ordinary Time, Sundays 18–34

— Value Editions (perfect-bound, 130–170pp.)
—— Advent/Christmas/Lent/Easter
—— Ordinary Time 2–34

These will be published through Corpus Christi Watershed once everything is vetted. All editions will share the same pagination (though not the same pagination as the current Responsorial Psalm–only collection).

* Important: I have been having trouble figuring out how to incorporate capo chords into the scores; while LilyPond gives fantastic output, capo chords are not something that LilyPond handles well (or at all, really). Two questions:

1. Are guitar chords desirable?
2. If the answer to 1 is "Yes", and I cannot figure out how to incorporate capo chords effectively in the Choir/SATB edition, would a standalone Melody/Guitar edition—that included guitar tablature instead of capo chords—be an acceptable accommodation? It would also serve as the Modern Notation equivalent to the Square-Note edition currently available.

It is possible that capo chords could be folded into the other editions in the future, provided that LilyPond developers develop a graceful solution to include them. But I don't see an easy way to include them—a real shame, considering that one would only need to know how to pluck five to six basic chords to accompany any setting in this collection.

Francis,

In LilyPond, I can include the letter chords with ease, but I cannot easily include parenthesized capo chords above these letter chords — I'm trying to hack around this limitation, but I want to use musically logical data instead of marking up the chords manually.