- ENTRANCE, OFFERTORY AND COMMUNION CHANTS - MusicaSacra
Simple English Propers is a great resource, and Richard Rices Simple Choral Gradual has proved invaluable to many parish choirs At the time of writing, there are other projects in the pipeline which are also being produced to fill this gap The author presents this book as an additional resource to be put at the disposal of the
- WHY sing the Propers of the Mass? - MusicaSacra
The propers are songs that are composed to fill the exact time of the processions and that's all Their words are part of the words of the Mass that Mass that day, abandoned for non-liturgical texts of hymns, some of which are not Catholic
- Spoken Propers - MusicaSacra Church Music Forum
The Missal propers were written in Latin, to set them to music would be to detract from the treasury of Gregorian chant, and therefor they were not to be sung
- gregorian chant proper for Novus Ordo Mass - MusicaSacra
Dear musicasacra member, i have question regarding using gregorian chant for NO mass i know that gregorian to be the first consideration for liturgical song, and some gregorian hymn, on special occassion, use chant for mass service (e g kryriale XVII for advent and lent, tantum ergo sacramentum for adoration of the Holy Sacrament) can gregorian proper (introit,graduale,tractus, offertory
- Music for Spanish Mass - MusicaSacra Church Music Forum
Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka's Spanish Propers are linked from Janet Gorbitz' The Misa Romana listed there was commissioned by CMAA for last year's Colloquium It's a straightforward setting of the USCCB chant Mass, so any pew resource should have that for the people to sing with It's choral, but can also be done by cantor with or without assembly
- New Tool for Gregorian Propers - MusicaSacra
The propers tool that I began work on about a week ago has become useful enough that I thought it would be worthwhile to advertise its existence It is a tool for producing PDFs of the propers for Sunday masses in the extraordinary form and will also allow you to apply psalm tones to the propers a la Rossini I think it should be straightforward enough to use, but let me know if anyone has any
- The Choral Graduale Simplex (English, harmonized SATB plainsong . . .
And the repetition would certainly help a beginning limited choir find its bearings My smaller choir has been singing the Simple English Propers weekly for almost two years and has developed a certain facility with those chants, to the point where we only take 20–30 minutes per rehearsal to review them
- Propers are not “minor” - MusicaSacra Church Music Forum
The other, the 'minor', or 'lesser' propers, being the introit, gradual or psalm, alleluya with its verse (or the tract), offertory antiphon, and communion antiphon As is obvious, calling the lesser propers 'minor' or 'lesser' does not imply that they are of little or no importance, just that they are inferior to the greater or major propers
|