Now which version? I was asked to set this for a hymn book last year, I think I found 4 or 5 different melodies, and a couple of differences in the text! I re-typeset two of the version which are attached below.

expeditus1, thank you for putting up this Vatican recording.

We have been singing the Laudes Divinae (with no repeats) in a version very close to those given by tomjaw' for three years. The priest chants the first half up to the half bar and the congregation finishes each line. It ends with Fiat, fiat.

fiat is Latin
amen is Hebrew
so be it is English

The Vatican version in the recording is really beautiful. I am going to try to transcribe the melody. Composing an accompaniment is probably beyond my capability at present. Is there anyone out there who can listen to this and take a dictation of the accompaniment? I would be most grateful.

Deo gratias!

The melody transcribed by tomjaw originates, as I understand, from the Abbey of Maredsous (Belgium). I have--somewhere--a mode vii setting, but--even if I knew where it was--it is very old and thus lacks some of the more recent additions. I have noticed that some Latin versions have magna Mater Dei, while others have excélsa Mater Dei. I suppose that the original is Italian.

Bumping this, since after looking around for the melodies, I now have the accompaniment (three sharps).

It's also a valuable pedagogical exercise. The nuns sent me the chant score with a Do clef, a reciting tone of La, and Si flat (what tomjaw posted originally). The Cistercians of Pluscarden sing on Do with the dominant on Mi, based on the transcription made for Gregobase. You also can sing with a Fa clef as above.

The accompaniment is messy, and if you check out the recording, all of the accents of spondees are sung long at the mediant and at the final, with a mora vocis given at the mediant as well, but the organ music doesn't account for that. I hope that someone finds it useful until I'm able to get a nicer version online.