Is there a typo in the Gregorian Missal?
  • RagueneauRagueneau
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  • Mark M.Mark M.
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    What chant is this, Jeffrey?

    And your post is timely… I'll note that there is indeed a typo in the GM for this Sunday's introit (Esto mihi, 6th Sunday OT): It is a Mode VI chant, not Mode IV as indicated.

    As for the apparent error you noted… that's for someone else to answer!
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  • Jeffrey CogginsJeffrey Coggins
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    It's the Graduale for the OF 2nd Sunday of Lent (B) and EF Dominica in Sexagesima.

    The Liber Usualis and 1961 Graduale Romanum look like the 1908 Graduale. My suspicion is that it's a typo in the GM.

    In fact, even the NOH matches the two GRs and the LU.
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  • RobertRobert
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    A typo is by definition unintentional. This is surely not a typo, but a correction (possibly the correction of a typo in the 1908!).

    Go to the manuscript sources, the only neume on the syllable "-nem" is the torculus.

    Given the official status of the 1908, this may be the kind of correction the editors might wish to pretend is a typo. Nevertheless, there can be no doubt that the alteration is very deliberate!

    Nice catch by the way, JMO!
  • Jeffrey CogginsJeffrey Coggins
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    So, even a typo can carry over for over a hundred years.
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