Mystic Modern: the music of Charles Tournemire
Organ versets
  • Palestrina
    Posts: 446
    Does anyone in this forum use organ versets routinely in psalmody at Mass? e.g. Communio - Psalm Verse - Organ Verset - Communio.

    I’d be most interested to hear from other organists whose works they’re using and where/how. The applications in the Office are obvious enough but it would be terrific to hear about successful repurposings for Mass.
  • trentonjconn
    Posts: 706
    I use them, but typically not for their original intended purposes. Normally I find myself using them as filler before/after the gospel procession.
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  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 2,726
    Yeah. Ours uses versets at the offertory when the choir is absent.
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  • Benton
    Posts: 14
    I have used them regularly in previous jobs. I made this for Easter one year: https://docs.google.com/document/d/139deK1a5vyaf3RwggkfEcIsSpqrMe-3LFrti_k4IYMk/edit?tab=t.0
    Thanked by 3irishtenor Joseph Michael cesarfranck
  • cesarfranck
    Posts: 168
    I always have an heir and a spare for introit if service begins after listed time. Ditto for offertory motets and communion motets or hymns. Our priest is not a lover of organ music or lengthy motets/anthems. However, he insists that I have "filler" music when he is not ready or communion is longer than usual. I thank Raison, Frescobaldi, and the Couperins.
    Thanked by 1Richard Mix
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