Proper Antiphons other than English or Spanish
  • Cordenuit
    Posts: 1
    Hello,

    Does anyone know of projects translating any of the Proper antiphons from Latin into a language other than English (many sources) or Spanish (Janet Gorbitz)?

    Thanks in advance.
  • GerardH
    Posts: 516
    This discussion might lead to Mandarin, Cantonese or Vietnamese attempts.

    And @smvanroode has his Klein Graduale in Dutch.

    There is also the Graduale Hungaricum, which I just discovered while going down the László Dobszay rabbit hole. I don't know if this is an adaptation of the full Graduale or the Graduale Simplex, and I suspect it also incorporates scholarship around plainchant in Hungary.
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  • Jehan_Boutte
    Posts: 268
    Some people have tried to compose some Antiphons into French, but these ressources are very limited for the moment, and almost impossible to find.
  • a_f_hawkins
    Posts: 3,517
    For Sundays and major festivals over 150 of them are identical with those in the Missal, mostly Introits.
  • Lincoln_Hein
    Posts: 136
    I am doing some composition in portuguese.
  • monasteryliturgistmonasteryliturgist
    Posts: 331
    One of our Monasteries was working on doing it French, but it is apparently very complicated because of the nature of that language and gregorian.
  • igneusigneus
    Posts: 400
    German. Heinrich Rohr: Deutsches Messantiphonale.

    (Czech, but it was back in the 16th c. and the liturgical texts, language and tastes changed a lot since then, so the old Czech gradualia only come to a very limited use as a historical curiosity - excepting selected repertory of the Rorate masses.)
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  • Lincoln_Hein
    Posts: 136
    In Portuguese there is a project with all the antiphons of the Graduale Simplex adapted:

    https://linktr.ee/gradualsimples
  • igneusigneus
    Posts: 400
    Polish https://www.liturgia.pl/kategoria/polskie-propria/
  • Kathy
    Posts: 5,490
    At one point Notre-Dame Cathedral was singing them metrically in French, if memory serves.
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