Sprinkling
  • sarahliz77
    Posts: 4
    Any recommendations for music to sing during the Sprinkling Rite at Easter Vigil?
  • ryandryand
    Posts: 1,638
    Probably the Asperges
  • fernandogilfernandogil
    Posts: 37
    Nequaquam! (Cf. Graduale Romanum, p. 198) Antiphona Vidi Aquam decantatur ad aspersionem.

    If you want an alternatim setting, I recommend Ravanello's Vidi Aquam
  • Andrew Motyka
    Posts: 939
    If you're from an "average" American parish, you most likely use the OCP missalettes. There's a decent setting called "I Saw Water Flowing" by Randall DeBruyn in there. It's one of the only good pieces of ritual music in those hymnals.
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  • Adam Schwend
    Posts: 201
    Definitely the Vidi Aquam.
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  • Richard MixRichard Mix
    Posts: 2,836
    Cpdl and some other settings are listed here; please feel free to list others!
  • RagueneauRagueneau
    Posts: 2,592
    Numerous settings of the Sprinkling Rite can be found HERE.

    Versions by Fr. Samuel Weber, ICEL, NOH, etc.
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  • Mike R
    Posts: 106
    JMO, is option 1 for the Asperges (not Vidi aquam...already have that) online anywhere for congregation? All I see is the organ version.

    Thanks.
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  • henry
    Posts: 244
    I Saw Water Flowing by Michael Ward (WLP) is very nice.
  • RagueneauRagueneau
    Posts: 2,592
    Hello, Mike R !

    Currently, it appears in the Vatican II Hymnal, along with numerous other settings of the Sprinkling.
  • benedictgal
    Posts: 797
    I did the first setting from the Vatican II hymnal at my dad's parish. At my parish, I cringed when they used "One Spirit, One Church."
  • canadashcanadash
    Posts: 1,507
    We sang the "I Saw Water" that is in the new Canadian missal. It is much too short for our parish. I'm not sure that I liked the silence on Easter Sunday. I think the Vidi Aquam would also be too short here. Here is something for me to think about/research for next year.
  • MarkThompson
    Posts: 768
    The Vidi Aquam can be extended ad libitum by singing the verses of Psalm 117, and then a GP, between repetitions of the antiphon.
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  • PaixGioiaAmorPaixGioiaAmor
    Posts: 1,465
    We used a beautiful choral setting by Ian Quinn, published by GIA. It's worth learning.
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  • benedictgal
    Posts: 797
    The Vatican II setting was well received by the faithful. The celebrant seemed happy with it.
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  • redsox1
    Posts: 217
    We used Leo Nestor's "I Saw Water." Great setting with Alleluia (Surgit in Haec Dies) as the refrain.
  • jpal
    Posts: 364
    We used the I Saw Water on p. 99 of the Vatican II Hymnal, which is more than adequately extendable. However, I second redsox1 on Dr. Nestor's arrangement.
  • Heath
    Posts: 968
    Friends, how would I go about acquiring Dr. Nestor's "I Saw Water"? Google isn't turning up much for me . . .
  • redsox1
    Posts: 217
    Heath,

    For years it was "floating around." I worked for Leo so that's how I got my copy. It is now available in Worship IV. I'm wondering if GIA might be planning on selling it separately as an octavo. It wouldn't hurt to call them and inquire as they now hold the copyright.
  • CGM
    Posts: 716
    There are good, and pretty straightforwad, four-voice settings of the Vidi Aquam by Spanish polyphonists Victoria and Morales, both written in four short sections (antiphon, verse, Gloria Patri, partial repeat of antiphon), so you can repeat or stop as needed.

    This year at my parish we did a really amazing setting from the Lambeth Choirbook for SATTB. Just the first "Vidi" is 90 measures, though - you gotta have a pretty big sanctuary for that much music/sprinkling.
  • Musicteacher56
    Posts: 621
    I've been doing the Asperges Me
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