Category: Gregorian Chant
Offertoriale restitutum cum versiculis
There are more and more useful resources on the page gregor-und-taube. Mr. Anton Stingl Jr. added up to now 3 restituted chants for offertory together with proper psalm verses and with st. gallen neumatic notation above the system. Quoting from the page: The Offertoriale restitutum is only in stage of construction. If you need other […]
Continue ReadingCantatorium
There is 13 more manuscripts available In the virtual Library Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG), among them important codices with neumatic notation including Cantatorium – the earliest complete extant musical manuscript in the world (922 – 925): Codex 338 – Computus, Breviarium, Graduale, Sakramentar (1050-1060) Graduale is on folios 36 – 317 Codex 359 – Cantatorium […]
Continue ReadingGregofacsimil
Great new source of information about chant manuscripts and also source of chant scores is available online on the site Gregofacsimil. Website is in French language. If you don’t understand French at all, you can try automated translations: English, German. On the page you can find introduction to problematic of restitution of chant melodies, some […]
Continue ReadingGraduale Romanum, Graduale Triplex
A must of an Gregorian schola is a so called gradual, a book collecting all musical items of the Mass for the whole liturgical year. It contains chants for ordinary (invariable parts of the mass like Kyrie, Gloria, Credo…) and for proper (parts of the mass that varies like Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory, Communion…). Apart […]
Continue ReadingAlberto Turco in Košice
Internationally acknowledged Italian specialist on Gregorian chant Alberto Turco is going to visit Košice, Slovakia. He will lead here Workshop called Music between Heaven and Earth – Gregorian chant Workshop organizes Liturgical Institute of Ján Jalovecký (Theologic Faculty of Catholic University). It will be held from 17th – 19th march 2007 on Hlavná 89 Street […]
Continue ReadingOfficium Majoris Hebdomadae
Chant book which we mentioned in the last post, is already available online on the webpage of CMAA. It contains chants for celebrations of Holy Week starting with Palm Sunday (including earlier supplied Passion Narratives)through Easter Triduum and Easter Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. From the whole interresting content we pick out: Lamentations of Jeremiah with […]
Continue ReadingPassio Domini Nostri
There are great new chant resources on the web of church music association of america: Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Matthæum Marcum Lucam Joannem Size of each PDF file is cca 1.8 MB. Chants are scanned from: Officium Majoris Hebdomadae et Octavae Paschae cum canto juxta ordinem Breviarii, Missalis et Pontificalis Romani editio compendiosa […]
Continue ReadingGregorian repertoire
Interesting Index of gregorian chants is available on the site gregorien.info. In the database is stored the occurence of particular chants in selected chant literature. Chants are sorted by title, type (introitus, graduale…), bible source and literature. Majority of the content is in french language. Here is the list of indexed literature: Graduale Triplex 1979 […]
Continue ReadingSchola cantus Gregoriani
Thanks to blog of SDH have I info about other czech ensemble, with focus on gregorian chant. On the website of Schola cantus Gregoriani (in czech language only) there is description of the ensemble and its repertoire, photos, audio samples, events announcements and some links to other sites.
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