I'm not sure if it's just me, but the android link is broken.

Thanks Ben, I think the link is fixed now.

David: coming very soon. Thanks!

Hi David: yes.

Excellent! Beautiful! Well-rendered! A very useful tool, indeed. The future of Gregorian chant.

Perhaps this will spur some discussion about the different resources we all use. Obviously, most of us are not singing straight from the LU every Sunday, but an app like this begins to make Latin propers more accessible. Of course, pronunciation guides, actual recordings, interpretive differences, etc., are beyond the scope of this kind of app, but that world is now suddenly accessible. Imagine, asking choristers to buy the app, bring phones/tablets to rehearsal, and walking them through the material, step by step. Hats off to the Fathers Spencer!

Father, I just purchased and downloaded the Android version of the app and am very impressed with what's included. Visually, it's very appealing and intuitive to use. I very much like the bookmark feature and how it's easy to re-arrange their order. The search feature is very helpful as well.

Regarding a few chants I'd like, will there be a future update to the app to include the Asperges and Vidi Aquam? Another nice-to-have feature would be to be able to swipe left or right to move from one chant to the next rather than having to go back to the menu. Lastly, while I realize this would be a significant undertaking, would it be possible to have (even as an in-app purchase) the EF Divine Office? Having it arranged so as to make chanting the D.O. idiot-proof would be simply amazing.

I'm going to share this app with the members of my schola (and encourage them to purchase it) as well as my pastor.

Great work Father. I downloaded the App for my I-Pad and are encouraging others to purchase it. I look forward to using it with my small schola and chat classes this summer.

Love this! Used it today for communion Antiphon at OF vigil mass for 5th Sunday of Lent

Another possible feature:

The Order of Mass/responses/dialogues/acclamations? A good starting point for introducing the whole idea.

Wonderful work, Father Spencer!

I told my staff singers about this today and I think 6 of them bought it while we sat there. I think I should probably get a referral fee. :-)

Thank you all!

rogue63: Hoping to have ordinaries in there very soon.

donr: Thanks for the ideas. I'll see what I can do about volume, should be simple to amp that up a bit. See below regarding pitch.

matthewj: Would an extra prayer count!? :)

Casavant Organist: Nice!

Regarding pitch. Square note has to convert solfege values to notes for playback. The algorithm I'm using to do that is based on finding the best natural range for the user rather than trying to simply map 'do' to C, 're' to D, etc. Instead, when pitch adjustment is at the default, then the (unflatted) space at the center of the staff line is mapped to G. All note values are calculcated from there based on clef placement, flats, etc. Pitch adjustments move this up and down by a semitone.

The benefit of doing it this way is that once you find a pitch adjustment that matches your natural singing range (I'm a bass and -3 is comfortable for me when I'm practicing), then no matter what chant you go to, that pitch adjustment should be comfortable. The disadvantage is that the actual notes played might vary, so tapping them out on a piano or a pitch pipe makes it difficult unless you can transpose on the fly.

With that said, if there's a better way to do it, I'm open to ideas! Or maybe indicating the actual note being played might be helpful?

Where's the version for a Windows phone?

CHGriffen: yes, sorry, chonak is right, the marketshare for Windows Phone is under 1% and dropping, just can't justify creating and maintaining the app on a platform with such a small user base at this point.

Vilyanor: technically I think it would be possible to support alternate tunings, though I'm not sure how much work it would be to implement. Let me look into it, and if it seems feasible, I'll add it to our wishlist of features. Thanks for the idea.

Fr. Spencer, thank you so much for publishing this app! I was afraid it was an April Fool's joke... I've purchased the app via Google's Play Store and am checking it out now!

None of the salicus markings are showing up for me in the chants, but the ictus markings are.

They are now...

Would it be possible to have the screen move with the playback cursor?

Have you considered adding the scores of the Gregor & Taube Graduale restitutum to this collection? Let's add some controversy to the app.

@KittyMalkin: We have ferial Masses on our list, though we're adding chants in order of priority of liturgical place and how many people have requested them, and so far our priority list for the first major update will include: improving the Sanctorum, ordinaries in Latin, Requiem mass, Commons, more hymns. But hopefully with time we'll get to all requests...

@BluePhantom: Thanks for spreading the word!

@matthewj: ;)

I ♡ this app.

I also heart this app. Now how fantastic it would be if Fr Weber's propers could be included as a paid-for add-on?!