What's this tone for chanting Gen. 1:1-31; 2:1-2 at the Paschal Vigil?
  • Geremia
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    beginning @41:01 here:

    I've never heard this tone for this First Reading of the Paschal Vigil before; it's beautiful.
  • Charles_Weaver
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    I know this one as the "FSSP Tone." Music here:

    https://fsspolgs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/EasterVigilLessonI_FSSPtone.pdf
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  • Geremia
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    Genesis tonus ad libitum. Interesting. It fit the text well and helped with enunciation/articulation in a large space.

    @Charles_Weaver, are there "FSSP Tone" PDF for the other lessons?
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  • Noctcaelador
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    My understanding (as someone who has in the past done the pre-55) is that this tone is an FSSP custom for just the first reading, and that it's based on a folk song. There are ad lib tones for the other readings, but they are quite old (Mozarabic tones I think).
  • Charles_Weaver
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    A group in the Philippines has recently composed special tones for all twelve. You can read about them here:

    https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2016/03/special-tones-for-prophecies-of-easter.html

    At our parish, we have sometimes used the Lesson 7 tone from that collection. We always use this FSSP tone for the first lesson and we use an extremely beautiful tone for the twelfth, taken from the 1940 Laudes Festivae:

    https://media.churchmusicassociation.org/books/laudes_festivae_1940.pdf

    This is one of my favorite things to sing every year and one of my favorite parts of the Triduum; the many repetitive textual elements in lesson 12 give it a feeling of extreme antiquity, and this tone really captures that beautifully.

    We generally use the Prophecy tone for the other lessons.
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  • MatthewRoth
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    Yes we do what Norwalk does: special 1 & 12, prophecy for the rest. I need to finish typesetting and proofreading (in two editions) one with syllabic breaks and puncta and then one with a reciting tone only like Hugh Henry did before Gregorio (the text font is goofy though).

    We use the Laudes festivae epistles on both days and the Cassinese gospel when my pastor deacons as on Sunday (on Saturday, he was celebrant; he can’t do the Exsultet) and he needs to be reminded to do this for the patronal feast once we get that typeset and Christmas which we have… but he knows it well and he despite his nerves is a remarkable singer (excellent voice, in a more tenor register).
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