Requiem Mass 1962
  • Palestrina
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    Has anyone put together any easy-to-follow booklet for choirs for the 1962 Requiem, including the absolutions?

    I could see a way of splicing this together from ‘Mass and Vespers’, but even that will require obvious truncations eg. The circumstances in which the burial immediately follows Mass are so rare as to be virtually non-existent now, yet I rarely hear the ‘Ego sum’ and Benedictus following the ‘In Paradisum’
  • MatthewRoth
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    The Ego sum etc. are to be done if burial is delayed, so in practice they should be done more often than not.
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  • MatthewRoth
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    but also your question needs more context.

    Do you need the orations and readings? I only put those together separately for the day of burial, and in the hope that the prayers are left as is and not substituted for another set (which is legitimate, but ruins what I'm trying to do). The readings for the 3rd, 7th, and 30th days are the same, but not the orations (and you can also use the appropriate ones just like on the day of death or burial).

    If not, the Institute of Christ the King packets are quite nice. I would redo how I worked everything together in hindsight as we did not have a funeral for five years; we only needed the absolution at the catafalque, and I made it so that the Libera Me had to be inserted twice, without it being terribly clear where to go on the day of the exequial Mass. Apple Preview (and paid Adobe Acrobat for sure) make it trivial to move pages around and insert from other files.
  • Palestrina
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    My basic idea is that such a booklet should replace a Gradual and a Missal for singers, such that they have everything they need in a single book, complete with a translation. Day of Burial, All Souls etc should be covered. Think Mass and Vespers but on a small scale… Many singers who can handle a simple sung Mass may not be as confident with a Requiem.
  • MatthewRoth
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    Yeah you have to do that in part yourself. There are are too many permutations, and you have to check with the priest beforehand.

    Because the funeral readings never change, but the prayers can and do; the anniversary is another set, there is the daily Mass for the dead, there are three Masses of All Souls (the readings of which get reused on other occasions).
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