Richard Rice's Choral Communio
  • Kathy
    Posts: 5,500
    My choir liked singing the propers in SATB from Richard Rice's Simple Choral Gradual, but after a few of them, found them too, well, simple :)

    Richard has composed a new collection on a more challenging level. Download samples are available. Here is my review, with all the info, at Chant Cafe: http://www.chantcafe.com/2012/05/new-communio-collection-by-richard-rice.html
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  • Heath
    Posts: 934
    Bumping...can't wait to get a copy!
  • irishtenoririshtenor
    Posts: 1,298
    Bought a copy yesterday! Can't wait!
  • Charles in CenCA
    Posts: 2,416
    My choir liked singing the propers in SATB from Richard Rice's Simple Choral Gradual, but after a few of them, found them too, well, simple :)
    Ah, but therein lies nobility still! (Laughing with you.)
    Seriously, RR's contributions should be legend. Out here we generally program one SEP, one SCG and a polyphonic Proper, so simple is perfect in that economy. We don't have a pre-Mass rehearsal space, so we warm up on vowels, and just doing that quasi-Orthodox homophony as we sight read the SCG seems to almost be the perfect accompaniment to private prayer for PIPs. I do know that I've always longed for a few more accidentals and chromatic interest, and have relished every suspension RR placed in the SCG, especially when in the alto voice! But we have to remember, there are directors who would give their eye teeth to have just a quartet that could render the SCG Propers, and in that it will always be a choral building treasure.
    My order for the new volume goes out today, free shipping apparently!

  • bgeorge77
    Posts: 190
    Does anyone know whether the tones match between the Choral Communio and the Graduale Romanum?
  • Richard R.
    Posts: 774
    "Does anyone know whether the tones match between the Choral Communio and the Graduale Romanum?"

    Not intentionally, if ever.

    RR
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