tomjaw

Why no hymns at Pope Francis' funeral?
Those that regularly use the Analecta Hymnica, would have a different idea of what a hymn is. J. Connelly writes about the different types briefly in his book. The Angelic Hymn, the Prose Hymn and the Sequence Hymn, are all hymns but very different…

Comment by tomjaw April 26 permalink
Antiphonale Romanum
@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 si…

Comment by tomjaw April 26 permalink
Antiphonale Romanum
@SponsaChristi I think they are for the new office, not the Divine Office.

Comment by tomjaw April 26 permalink
London Oratory Hymn Tunes (1870)
I would get in touch with the London Oratory, they should have a copy in their Library.

Comment by tomjaw April 26 permalink
Antiphonale Romanum
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 u…

Comment by tomjaw April 26 permalink
Why no hymns at Pope Francis' funeral?
From Hymns of the Roman Liturgy, J. Connelly. 2. Hymns And Doxologies St Augustine describes a hymn as the praise of God in song. 'Hymnus scitis quid est? Cantus est cum laude Dei. Si laudas Deum, et non cantas, non dicis hymnum. Si cantas, et …

Comment by tomjaw April 26 permalink
St Thomas Aquinas Hymnbook?
In the present time with the importance of women in the Church, why not the Corpus Christi hymn of St Juliana Christus Noster Vere Cibus, or the older Hymn Christus, Lux indeficiens, https://societyofstbede.wordpress.com/2024/05/30/corpus-christi/ …

Comment by tomjaw April 24 permalink
Homily Length?
The mistake is to give the time in minutes, when we started sing polyphonic Credo, I timed the Mass, so I was ready to give the times of the notices, sermon and Canon, and the fractions for singing Polyphonic settings. So give it in length of the t…

Comment by tomjaw April 24 permalink
Rest in peace PP Francis
@Jeffrey_Quick Why not use the Missal of Pope Francis, Ordinariate!

Comment by tomjaw April 22 permalink
Rest in peace PP Francis
St Mark for us will be on Tuesday... N.B. Burial Masses can be on most if not all days, it is Mass on First hearing the news that is more restricted... Although +/-Vinny has allowed Requiem Masses in the Easter Octave, https://westminstercathedr…

Comment by tomjaw April 21 permalink
Triduum (Holy Week) 2025 Music lists
Easter Sunday with 3 ladies, 9 men and 2 children in choir Processional Hymn: Salve festa Dies Vidi Aquam: Chant from Graduale Romanum 1924 INT: Resurrexi KYR: Missa O Quam Gloriosum, Victoria GLO: Missa O Quam Gloriosum, Victoria GRAD: Haec Dies. …

Comment by tomjaw April 20 permalink
Triduum (Holy Week) 2025 Music lists
Tenebrae of Holy Saturday (Anticipated on Friday evening) All sung in full from the Festa Majora, 1925 / Liber Usualis 1945. We had one sets of cantors, 5 men in choir singing the Lamentations, Lessons, Antiphons, Responsories and Psalms. This took …

Comment by tomjaw April 19 permalink
Gospels for Easter Vigil/Day Masses Written Out
One Missal in Westminster Cathedral has the Vigil and Easter Gospel set to the Solemn Ancient tone as used for the Passion, I have set these here, https://societyofstbede.wordpress.com/2016/03/27/easter-sunday-2/

Comment by tomjaw April 18 permalink
Triduum (Holy Week) 2025 Music lists
Good Friday Solemn Liturgy 11.30 am All as in the G.R. 1924 Sung Passion, Victoria setting Popule Meus, Chant Crux Fidelis, Chant verses with polyphonic (Palestrina?) Crux fidelis / Dulce lignum refrain Vexilla Regis, Chant Com. motet : Stabat Mate…

Comment by tomjaw April 18 permalink
"solemnior" version of Jeremiah's Lamentations for Holy Week triduum?
@Geremia I think that file was posted here, I have looked through my files and added a couple more resources, but can't find any other at the moment. Just about to sing Tenebrae!

Comment by tomjaw April 17 permalink
Tenebrae Lessons : Does anyone have pdfs?
In the Festa Majora, Desclee, No. 824, 1923 ed. we have the following tones, https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/m5ewukwgyoaszp09ell88/Festa-Majora.pdf?rlkey=pgzncth4pax3fv6yx1ejk9tkt&st=nffk1als&dl=0

Comment by tomjaw April 16 permalink
Palm/Passion Sunday
@Charles_Weaver 1. It is just long enough for us, The Ad lib II is just a little too short, the Normal Asperges just right, and the Vidi too long. It does depend on the priest as some are faster than others. 2. We start with the chant alternating,…

Comment by tomjaw April 15 permalink
Palm/Passion Sunday
Palm Sunday 2024 (same as last year) Two sets of Male cantors for the Propers and one set of Lady Cantrix? for the Ordinary. Blessing of Palms (all Chant sung in full according to the G.R. 1924) Asperges mode 7 ANT. Hosanna filio David. GRAD. In Mo…

Comment by tomjaw April 13 permalink
Non-Christian Music Directors Now Approved for the Catholic Church
N.B. If you have sung or listened to the music of Hans Leo Hassler 1564? – 8 June 1612, it may be worthwhile looking up as to his denomination!

Comment by tomjaw March 1 permalink
Singing Vespers
Booklets can be found here, https://gregorian-chant-hymns.com/publications/liturgy-of-hours.html

Comment by tomjaw February 26 permalink
1962 Confirmation Rite Chants
The following is found in the 1961 Liber pg. 1844.

Comment by tomjaw February 25 permalink
Propers (preferably Latin) for Votive Mass of Mercy?
Our Lady of Mercy is celebrated on the 24th September, this feast is also known as Our Lady of Ransom. It is still in the G.R. 1962, with the above Propers posted by @chonak. A Proper Mass and sequence can be found in the Mercedian supplement, and …

Comment by tomjaw February 25 permalink
Burying the Alleluia
This (above) is a Sequence, Cantemus cuncti melodum nunc, Alleluia Music can be found here, https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/0438/142v/0/

Comment by tomjaw February 19 permalink
Burying the Alleluia
Ah the Alleluia piis edite laudibus, it is in the Cantus Database The melody can be found in a 12th century manuscript.

Comment by tomjaw February 19 permalink
Burying the Alleluia
The mode II melody above from Gregobase is a Dominican melody, used for the Urbs beata, and the Angularis Fundamentum (Dedication of a Church). The second Gregobase melody was posted by CCWatershed and is 11th Century Melody from La Feillés. The…

Comment by tomjaw February 16 permalink
Sermone Blando Angelus
The problem you have is the "Sermone Blando Angelus" is part of a longer hymn, so a Cantus Search gives, https://cantusindex.org/id/008271%3A06 So If you search for the full hymn, Aurora lucis rutilat rather than verse 6, you will get thi…

Comment by tomjaw February 16 permalink
Burying the Alleluia
We buried it yesterday with the ancient Vespers hymn (Dulce Carmen) sung in procession to the grave. Our priests then read four of the ancient prayers during the burial, then said the Benedicamus Domino still used at Vespers in the Roman Rite. We …

Comment by tomjaw February 16 permalink
Looking for Missa De Angelis Tropes
Here is the Analecta Hymnica, with the text of the Tropes, it gives Manuscript references. Index link here,

Comment by tomjaw February 15 permalink
Palestrina 2025
What about Dulcis Jesu... or perhaps the Matins and Lauds hymns which use texts from the same 43 verse? poem.

Comment by tomjaw February 3 permalink
Candlemas 2025 Music Lists
We had the Blessing of candles etc. E.F. Lumen ad revelationum (Graduale Romanum 1924) (Sung by the children's choir) Exsúrge, Dómine (Graduale Romanum 1924) Adórna thálamum (Graduale Romanum 1924) Responsum accepit Simeon (Graduale Romanum 192…

Comment by tomjaw February 2 permalink

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