Please don't reprint the 1949 (updated 1960) Antiphonale Romanum, it is full of mistakes, and some of the directions are misleading.

I sing from a 1949 copy when I am at home, the binding is broken so is not suitable for Liturgical use. We usually use booklets, or Liber Usualis for Liturgical use.

For copies as you are also U.K. try here https://www.stphilipsbooks.co.uk or on ABe books.

@SponsaChristi I think they are for the new office, not the Divine Office.

@SponsaChristi I think they are for the new office, not the Divine Office.

I see that now. I keep forgetting that Gregorian chant and Latin are still a thing in the church. I’m not accustomed to seeing modern resources to actually use it with our current Missal.

What’s wrong with just using the Liber?

Thank you all for your help.
@MatthewRoth
Exactly, the LU is great for what it was meant to be but it is really quite peculiar in that it is a complete mix of ‘62 reforms and pre-62 rubrics. It’s taken me a long time to get to grips with. But it is pretty excellent for singing the EF Mass (at least that’s what I’ve found so far).

@Tomjaw
What is wrong with the 1949 updated ‘60 version? Sorry I’m not at all familiar with any of the pre-49 things…
I know it’s for private devotion so I could do whatever but I would like to do the valid ‘62 version, which is the Antiphonale we’re discussing.
What are my other options?

I’ve been making booklets for liturgical use (though we’ve not started yet), but for my own daily use I’d rather have something more lasting.

I can’t seem to find the right section on the website you directed me to, it does seem familiar though. I will look again later.

Thank you again, it’s very helpful hearing everyone else’s experiences!

@DOAdvocate
The 1960 edition here is the 1949 edition.

I use it to sing Vespers and Compline every Sunday, and some other Feasts, while it is better than the Liber as it has all the texts and music. Its usability is rather flawed, my colleagues singing from the Liber have a far easier time.

The usual edition of the Liber has at least 10 errors, while the Antiphonal has at least 50... Some to music and some to the texts.

Well there is an errata list in the back already. I would like @tomjaw’s list too. That would be helpful as I prefer to use the Liber antiphonarius to decide between things (I mostly work with Vespers and Compline, but occasionally I typeset Sext.)

As to usability: the psalms are not pointed. I think that if you sing enough, you don’t really need it, except for a few stub verses that show up mostly at Matins or at Lauds, such as at Tenebrae, but also at Vespers. That said, tone 4E is challenging even for the best groups, and it didn’t fall apart on us this year, but it definitely is the psalm tone that we take the slowest after the mediant on purpose. The Roman books all have the hymns in full, at least.

The advantage of not pointing is that you don’t have to reprint all of the psalms except as a courtesy which is done in the middle (albeit haphazardly). Psalms of Sunday? You flip to Sunday and back to the antiphon (this is a problem for the binding in the long run, and it makes the book hard to hold, but it’s the same with the Liber). Psalms of Apostles? You flip to Sunday and just memorize psalm 116, or you can flip to the psalms of feasts in the middle. And so on and so forth. I forget where it tells you which psalms to pray for Our Lady and the women saints and where those are, but it’s the same idea.

My ideal books would split the hours up so that you do need multiple volumes but where the psalms are printed in the way that the LU does for Matins: antiphon, first verse in chant, pointed psalms.

I would also add the ancient hymn texts and melodies (one verse only, at most; the people who want to use these texts can handle it IMHO) found in the appendix in the Vatican edition but omitted in the 1949 Solesmes book.