I've started moving some of our print-on-demand books from lulu.com to Amazon's KDP print-on-demand service, since they seem to deliver more quickly and charge slightly less.
This book presents psalm verses from the Latin Vulgate Bible for introits and communions according to the 1962 liturgical calendar.
To make use in modern-rite Masses easier, this edition adds an alphabetical index of communion antiphons and an appendix with three antiphons not used in the old rite: Ego sum vitis vera, Qui biberit aquam, and Voce mea.
May I just say, Richard, that I love that you included the little numbers to help guide singers through the psalm tone? I know it won't be to everyone's taste, but sometimes it is really helpful to go back and reengineer. I was just looking at a pointed text in an old edition and I honest-to-goodness could not figure out how the text was intended to be applied to the psalm tone. I could think of multiple ways to do it. Seeing this made me smile. No ambiguity! They are small enough to be ignored, but big enough to decode if you need to.
Here's a routine reminder: Avoid flames: critique principles, not people. Be discriminating but don't nitpick. Be academic not acerbic. Be principled not polemical.
And: Chants Abrégés: the 1926 collection of chants for the Graduals, Tracts, and Alleluias, with the proper texts set to simple melodies taken from office antiphons, psalm tones, and other cantillation forms
Officium Majoris Hebdomadae et Octavae Paschae cum cantu is a 1923 book showing the Offices and Masses of Holy Week and the Easter Octave as they were observed prior to the reforms of Pope Pius XII, with full texts and extensive chant notation. Sample pages can be viewed at the link above.
I can't claim to know the history of this work. it was not published by Solesmes, but by the publisher Pustet, and the title page indicates that the material was drawn from the official editions. you can see sample pages on the Amazon website, so that may tell you more.
I actually cannot see sample pages at least on my phone.
Right Solesmes never published its own books as it lost its printing operations and turned it over to Desclée.
So anything Pustet is Vatican (and they say official edition, but that’s a bit phony; the Vatican commission was dissolved, and Solesmes took over the chant publication).
Throughout this time, Solesmes mostly published versions of the Vatican edition and all the books that went with it (including this one) in versions both with and without the Solesmes rhythmic signs. This book is without them, at least according to the sample pages.
One book that they never published with the rhythmic signs was Ott's Offertoriale.
Matthew, if your phone browser lets you enable a "desktop mode" option, you may be able to look at the Amazon listing and see a "View Sample" button below the cover image, and that would bring up the sample.
Richard Terry was the director of music at Westminster Cathedral, a composer, editor of The Westminster Hymnal, and a music researcher. Now that the 120th anniversary of his work Catholic Church Music is approaching, I've newly typeset the book, and this edition has become available today.
Here's a batch: five new Amazon versions at once, for the five historical editions we offer of Justine Ward's works: her teacher manuals for music education and her guide to Gregorian chant for adult learners.
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