Volume 1 - Advent/Christmas
(Includes: Alma redemptoris mater, Creator alme siderum, Rorate coeli desuper, Great 'O' Antiphons, Hodie Christus natus est, Puer natus in Bethlehem)
Volume 2 - Lent/Easter
(Includes: Attende Domine, Parce Domine, Ave Regina coelorum, Pange lingua gloriosi, Vexilla regis prodeunt, Victimae paschali laudes, Regina coeli, Veni Sancte Spiritus)
Volume 3 - General/Marian
(Includes: Adoro te devote, Asperges me, Ubi caritas, Veni Creator Spiritus, Vidi aquam, Ave Maria, Salve Regina)
Volume 4 - Masses
(Includes: Missa orbis factor, Missa de angelis, Missa adventus et quadragesimae, and Credo III)
Highlights
- Collections of common chants, grouped by liturgical season
- Chant set to modern music notation
- Free Latin pronunciation guide included with each booklet
- Provides foundation for many of CanticaNOVA's chant-based works!
Description
Gregorian chant has, for hundreds of years, been the foundation upon which Catholic
liturgical music has been built. Vatican II reaffirmed that such chant is "specially
suited to the Roman liturgy" and "should be given pride of place in liturgical services."
(Sacrosanctum Concilium #116) Despite this, chant is rarely used in most Catholic
churches in the U.S. today. A paucity of resources and the added difficulty of learning
chant notation can prevent even those who would like to use chant from achieving this
end.
To facilitate the use of chant in modern liturgies, we are publishing
a series of inexpensive booklets of chant. Each booklet contains six to ten chants
for a specific season of the liturgical year. All the chant is set
to modern music notation. The text provided with the music is the original Latin
and an English translation appears at the beginning of each piece. We even
include a handy Latin pronounciation guide (on a 4x5-1/2" card) with each booklet,
free of charge!
The chant in these booklets provides the foundation for much of the other music
in this catalog. As a result, both the chant and new music may be used together
to introduce a congregation to a particular piece of chant, or to help unify the
music within a particular liturgical celebration. For example, use our arrangement
of Psalm 96 for the responsorial psalm at Midnight Mass
and include the chant on which it is based, Puer natus in Bethlehem, as an anthem
at another place in the Mass. As we add new pieces to our catalog, your options
will continue to grow!
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Ordering
Information
Order #:
Volume 1 - 2001
Volume 2 - 2002
Volume 3 - 2003
Volume 4 - 2004
Price: $2.50
Relevant
Categories
- Liturgical Settings
- Advent
- Christmas
- Lent
- Triduum
- Easter
- Eucharist
- Marian
- Ordinary Time
- a cappella
- Chant
- Latin
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