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1929 Kyriale Organ Accompaniment (Potiron)

Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013

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Organ Accompaniments for the Ordinarium Missæ done by Henri Potiron and Dom Jean Hébert Desrocquettes (PDF download):

* * (Desrocquettes & Potiron) Kyriale Accompaniment — Version 1

* * (Desrocquettes & Potiron) Kyriale Accompaniment — Version 2

* * (Desrocquettes & Potiron) Kyriale Accompaniment — Version 3 — (Best Quality)

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Spiral-bound • 115 pages long • index

• Accompagnement du Kyriale Vatican • Dom Jean Hébert Desrocquettes, moine de Solesmes; Henri Potiron, maître de chapelle de la Basilique du Sacré-Cœur; professeur a l’Institut grégorien • French/English Preface – 4, 107 pages • 1929 – Société Saint Jean l’Évangéliste, Declée et Cie, Imprimeurs du Saint Siège et de la Sacrée Congrégation des Rites – PARIS, TOURNAI, ROME – Printed in Belgium • 1929 Accompagnement du Kyriale Vatican • J. H. Desrocquettes & H. Potiron •

These organ accompaniments are done according to the Solesmes Rhythm of the chant.

Version 2 is courtesy of Ted Krasnicki

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19 January 2021 • Confusion over feasts

For several months, we have discussed the complicated history of the various Christmas feasts: the Baptism of the Lord, the feast of the Holy Family, the Epiphany, and so forth. During a discussion, someone questioned my assertion that in some places Christmas had been part of the Epiphany. As time went on, of course, the Epiphany came to represent only three “manifestations” (Magi, Cana, Baptism), but this is not something rigid. For example, if you look at this “Capital E” from the feast of the Epiphany circa 1350AD, you can see it portrays not three mysteries but four—including PHAGIPHANIA when Our Lord fed the 5,000. In any event, anyone who wants proof the Epiphany used to include Christmas can read this passage from Dom Prosper Guéranger.

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A book published by Anglicans in 1965 has this to say about Abbat Pothier’s Editio Vaticana, the musical edition reproduced by books such as the LIBER USUALIS (Solesmes Abbey): “No performing edition of the music of the Eucharistic Psalmody can afford to ignore the evidence of the current official edition of the Latin Graduale, which is no mere reproduction of a local or partial tradition, but a CENTO resulting from an extended study and comparison of a host of manuscripts gathered from many places. Thus the musical text of the Graduale possesses a measure of authority which cannot lightly be disregarded.” They are absolutely correct.

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