New Edition of Chabanel Responsorial Psalms • Edition: 12 May 2014 — Organist & Vocalist

New Edition of Chabanel Responsorial Psalms • Edition: 12 May 2014 — Organist & Vocalist

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HE NEW EDITIONS of the Chabanel Psalms include Holy Days, like the Presentation (2 Feb), Transfiguration (6 Aug), Ss. Peter & Paul (29 June), and many more!

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ORGAN ACCOMPANIMENTS :

* * PDF Download (401 pages)

* * Buy Spiral Bound (401-pages) $25.99

VOCALIST :

* * PDF Download (206 pages)

* * Buy Perfect Bound (206-pages) $12.99

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These new editions (12 May 2014) correspond to the St. Isaac Jogues Illuminated Missal, Lectionary, & Gradual, but are virtually identical to Responsorial Psalms found in the Vatican II Hymnal, except the following:

— 1st Sunday of Advent, Year A
— 1st Sunday of Lent, Year C
— Ascension of the Lord, Years ABC
— 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
— 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C (Option 2)
— Christ the King Sunday, Year C
— Nativity of St. John the Baptist (24 June), Years ABC
— All Saints (1 November), Years ABC
— Immaculate Conception (8 December), Years ABC
— Catholic Weddings (Nuptial Mass)
— Catholic Funerals (Requiem Mass)
— Sacrament of Confirmation (Ritual Mass)

Organists will love the total lack of page turns and appreciate the various transpositions included. Choirmasters will be happy each vocalist score fits on one (1) page, so xerox copies can be made easily if needed.

Which Gospel Acclamations?

Some have asked which Gospel acclamations (“Alleluia”) we use at my church. We use this gorgeous printed resource available on AMAZON PRIME. Once both congregation and cantor have sung their parts, our choir launches into a beautiful SATB “choral extension” (cf. Saint Noël Chabanel Mass Setting).

—Jeff Ostrowski

“Entrance Chant” • Immaculate Conception

Download the ENTRANCE ANTIPHON in English for the Immaculate Conception (9 December 2024). It’s in the third mode—which some consider the most beautiful of all—and mimics the authentic version in a laudable way. Corresponding to the vocalist score is this free organ accompaniment. If you’re someone who enjoys rehearsal videos, I attempted to sing it while simultaneously accompanying my voice on the pipe organ.

—Jeff Ostrowski

How Sharp Are Your Eyes?

Just around the corner is the feast of the Immaculate Conception. The GREGORIAN MISSAL (Solesmes Abbey, 1990) is an utterly gorgeous book—there’s no question about that. But several typos did creep in. Can you spot the major typo for the ENTRANCE CHANT on the feast of the Immaculate Conception? How sharp are your eyes? If you succeed, send me an email letting me know.

—Jeff Ostrowski

The Breviary in the Life of the Laity

Recently I have been enjoying looking through the inaugural (1927) edition of a 20th-century liturgical magazine called Orate Fratres. The July 1927 issue included an excellent article by a Chicago laywoman named Ellen Gates Starr entitled “The Delights of the Breviary: From the Point of View of a Lay Woman.” As we in the 21st century have recently undergone a (blessed!) re-translation of the missal into English, and as we await with joyful hope (please God, before Jesus comes back!) a similar re-translation of the breviary, the opening of her article reminded me of that old saying, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” Nearly a hundred years ago, she penned words that could just as easily have been written today: “It is indeed a privilege to be allowed any participation, however slight, in the liturgical movement in the Church – the movement to bring back the classics of devotion, the Missal and the Breviary, into general use by the laity. The wonder is that they should ever have fallen into disuse. Nothing can take the place of these great universal prayers of the Church, the prayers of the Mass and the divine Office. One has only to know them to find them indispensable. And alas, how few of the laity know them!” I know that I have been tremendously nourished by regular praying of the breviary as of late, and my wish is that you and I, dear reader, may continue to nourish our interior lives with the official prayer of the Church, which present to us (in the Mass) and extend (in the Office) the fullness of Christ’s greatest gift to us – the gift of Himself – in the Most Holy Eucharist.

—Daniel Tucker

Principles vs Preferences

I ran into this idea recently: principles vs. preferences in planning out a curriculum or music lineup. In this idea, it is imperative to not misconstrue personal preferences into principles—that the music (or subject matter) is great because: “I have good taste, and I like it.” De gustibus… Education, study and docility to the Magisterium of the Church on matters of liturgical music must be present in those who make the music at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the Hours. Who knows? Maybe you might start to prefer the music that is fitting according to the principles Catholic Sacred Music?

—William J. Fritz

Liquescent Notes in the Official Edition

The official edition—the EDITIO VATICANA itself—is somewhat inconsistent when it comes to liquescent notes. If you wish to see a perfect “apples-to-apples” comparison, click here. Such “inconsistency” was not owing to ignorance on the part of Abbat Pothier: the manuscripts themselves are inconsistent when it comes to liquescent notes.

—Jeff Ostrowski