“2-Voice Piece” • For February 2nd
The hymn traditionally sung on the feast of the Purification.
“Is it not true that prohibiting or suspecting the extraordinary form can only be inspired by the demon who desires our suffocation and spiritual death?” —The Vatican’s chief liturgist from 2014-2021; interview with Edw. Pentin (23-Sep-2019)
This English adaptation matches the mode of the authentic Gregorian Chant version.
In 1979, Monsignor Robert F. Hayburn published an important book called: “Papal Legislation on Sacred Music.”
We have a wide range of expertise: from experienced choristers (some with music degrees) to a gentleman who’d never sung in a choir in his life before joining.
From what I have seen, musicians tend to be the best liturgists…
Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I prepared…
Doesn’t it stand to reason that we should sing from this edition in the manner its creators intended?
Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I prepared…
Fully harmonized, including fabulous (optional) verses from the New Testament.
The authentic Gregorian Chant version begins the same way “Salve, Sancta Parens” begins…
Download this book—129 pages!—free of charge as a PDF: “The Trapp Family Book of Christmas Songs.”
Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I have prepared for the Feast of the Holy Family.
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