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Sources of Chants of the Votive Mass Pro Eligendo Summo Pontifice (EF)
It turns out that this Mass was composed between the 28th of September and the 31st of October 1362 by the Cardinals who had just elected the future Urban V: “In 1362, at the death of Innocent VI... Remarkably, during the same interregnum they [the…

Comment by Josh March 3 permalink
Sources of Chants of the Votive Mass Pro Eligendo Summo Pontifice (EF)
I have done some further investigation using Google books... the version of this Mass in the 1572 Missale Romanum is the same as in the 1962, except that the Gospel pericope was shorter by two verses, consisting of John 14:15-19, which it remained u…

Comment by Josh March 2 permalink
Chants/Hymns in Honor of St. Blaise
Thanks to Google Books, here is a pdf of the chant for this hymn taken from "Offices propres pour la basilique église cathédrale et le diocèse de Montpellier" (1899) - though I notice that the second verse ends "perstruit" not &q…

Comment by Josh February 6 permalink
Chants/Hymns in Honor of St. Blaise
I looked up this hymn and found it in the following source, which contains proper Offices granted to dioceses of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany (at the end it is dated 1837): https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wihhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA41&dq=Salutis+…

Comment by Josh February 6 permalink
Congregational Domine Salvum fac regem nostrum Carolum
Note that the collect should read increménta (neuter plural) not increméntum (neuter singular).

Comment by Josh September 2022 permalink
Sequence for Votive Mass in Time of Pestilence
Correction: 19a, line 2: change "es" to "et".

Comment by Josh September 2020 permalink
Sequence for Votive Mass in Time of Pestilence
There may not be a melody for this plague sequence at all... according to Analecta Hymnica Medii Ævi. IX. Sequentiæ Ineditæ, n. 50 (p. 41f.): "Die Sequenz wird wohl nie zum musikalischen Vortrage bestimmt, sondern, einer Votivmesse angehörend,…

Comment by Josh September 2020 permalink
Sequence for Votive Mass in Time of Pestilence
A worthy suggestion - but not all the verses use the same metre.

Comment by Josh September 2020 permalink
Polyphonic propers for the Votive Mass in Time of Pestilence (EF)
This is excellent! Could you provide recordings of these? And - if you would consider providing a setting of the Second Alleluia for Eastertide? Well done!

Comment by Josh April 2020 permalink
Music in Time of Pestilence
I have found suggested tunes for two of the four hymns I supplied above: 1. "In grief and fear to thee, O Lord" Salisbury (HA&M 377); also suggested are St Bernard (HA&M 112) and Burford (HA&M 253). Other tunes paired with th…

Comment by Josh March 2020 permalink
Urbi et Orbi - Extraordinary Papal Blessing
Unfortunately this occurred a little after 4 am Australian Eastern Daylight [saving] Time on Saturday morning, so I missed out. While I've been waking up an hour before my alarm for quite a while now, to catch up on the latest dreadful news, th…

Comment by Josh March 2020 permalink
Music in Time of Pestilence
Unfortunately not - but I forgot to mention that the singing of the Trisagion is associated with times of trouble; either in chant (as on Good Friday, only without the rest of the Improperia) or set to polyphony (such as Victoria's sublime vers…

Comment by Josh March 2020 permalink
Music in Time of Pestilence
P.S. The Cantuale Romano-Seraphicum contains the attached antiphon in honour of the famous plague saint, St Roch. Yet another plague saint, St Rosalia, has a long proper hymn in her honour, from which I selected the following stanzas; I am unsure o…

Comment by Josh March 2020 permalink
Music in Time of Pestilence
If anyone can find the actual music for the antiphon to St Sebastian, please supply it if possible.

Comment by Josh March 2020 permalink
Solemn Tone Chant Sheets for EF Mass of Our Lady of Guadalupe
For the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Postcommunion (Sumptis, Domine, salutis) is taken from the Common of Feasts of Our Lady; however, the Collect is proper to this feast: Deus, qui sub beatíssimæ Vírginis Maríæ singulári patrocínio constitú…

Comment by Josh December 2019 permalink
Requiem Offertory: Domine Iesu Christe with extra verses (Offertoriale Triplex #110)
If this is any use, here is my transcription of the Requiem Mass Offertory with five extra verses - the last being taken from a different source (I forget what):

Comment by Josh November 2019 permalink
Altar cards for EF
Years ago, when helping organise a monthly EF Mass in my own parish, I made a set of very plain altar cards with as many texts as seemed useful; I attach copies of the text for each - please advise if any embarrassing errors are inadvertently includ…

Comment by Josh October 2019 permalink
How many of us are observing these points from "Musicam sacram"?
Assuming for the moment that this document is still relevant (as noted above, it isn't), and looking at the OF Mass... The main problem is that the items listed as belonging to the first degree, and thereby intended to be implemented first, ar…

Comment by Josh October 2019 permalink
Mass of Puff, the Magic Dragon
This parody Sanctus still doesn't quite beat Sister Irene O'Connor's Mass Emmanuel from 1976, mentioned on an earlier thread... here is a link to a recording of it that works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9u13Ui5kag

Comment by Josh July 2019 permalink
Cross-Referencing Chant Usage
Forgive me for pointing out a small correction: the Latin word (itself derived from the Greek) for "week" is hebdomada (with one e and two a's, not two e's and one a).

Comment by Josh May 2019 permalink
Canticle of the Passion - Engraving Request
I decided to typeset this Canticle for the small chant group I help, but I ran out of time and had to simply print out the pdf above for our practice tonight - after our practice, I finally finished the transcription. I made use of a modern Czech-La…

Comment by Josh April 2019 permalink
EF propers
To find these Propers, simply consult the Graduale Romanum 1961, which you can download from this page. When you turn to page 165, you will find a rubric in Latin which states that the Proper for the Saturday after Passion Sunday is the same as tha…

Comment by Josh March 2019 permalink
Processional Hymn to St. Patrick
And here's another, which may be sung to any suitable chant: http://catholiclibrary.org/library/view?docId=Medieval-OR/AnHymAuthorXIHymniIneditiAnalectaHymnica.00000109.la.html;brand=default;&useLemma=# (plus two extra verses, one taken fr…

Comment by Josh March 2019 permalink
Full Gradual / Tract of Lent I
And to my delight and astonishment, our solo singer at our new weekly Sunday Missa cantata sang very pleasantly both the Gradual, and the whole Tract, at our Mass this morning: it was a most impressive effort, and we all congratulated him afterward.…

Comment by Josh March 2019 permalink
Full Gradual / Tract of Lent I
For a rough comparison, the common Gregorian setting of the Gradual Angelis suis has 268 notes, whereas the Parisian proper version has 397 (counting each square note, etc., and each dot, as one), and is thus almost 50% longer. A quick search reveal…

Comment by Josh March 2019 permalink
Full Gradual / Tract of Lent I
The website of the Schola Sainte Cécile provides the (particularly melismatic) chant of the Gradual Angelis suis proper to the Church of Paris, sung there since the 9th century, and still included in the 1925 Mass propers of the (Arch)diocese of Par…

Comment by Josh March 2019 permalink
Missa Simplex Primi Toni, for OF Mass
How does this compare to the attached Messe Royale (excl. Credo), with parts alternating between plainchant and SATB, arranged by Hervé Lecomte ("Edition may be freely distribu[t]ed, duplicated & performed"), that I downloaded from the…

Comment by Josh March 2019 permalink
J-B Lully: Messe Imperiale (Plein-Chant Musical)
Does anyone know of a recording of this Mass?

Comment by Josh February 2019 permalink
J-B Lully: Messe Imperiale (Plein-Chant Musical)
Out of interest, here are some notes I made about the author of this Mass: Jean-Baptiste Lully fils (6 August 1665 to 9 March 1743) was the second son of the composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. He was also known as Baptiste Lully, Lully fils, l’abbé Lull…

Comment by Josh February 2019 permalink
J-B Lully: Messe Imperiale (Plein-Chant Musical)
For comparison with the files above, here are the primary sources from which I transcribed this Mass setting:

Comment by Josh February 2019 permalink

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