Simple English Propers: Full PDF Download

Corpus Christi Watershed · May 7, 2014

ANY PEOPLE HAVE REQUESTED the complete PDF download of the Simple English Propers. In fact, this has been available since 2011 at the official SEP website, but the url is easily overlooked.

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* * Simple English Propers (Full PDF Download)

Composed by Adam Bartlett.
Typesetting by Steven Van Roode.
Published by the CMAA in 2011.
License: Creative Commons.

Practice Videos: Click Here

Organ Accompaniments: Click Here

Other publications which use this beautiful (approved) translation of the Graduale Romanum include:

1. Lalemant Propers

2. Gregorian Missal (1990)

3. Laudate Dominum Communion Antiphons

4. St. Isaac Jogues Illuminated Missal, Lectionary, & Gradual

Opinions by blog authors do not necessarily represent the views of Corpus Christi Watershed.

Surprising Popularity!

One of our most popular downloads has proven to be the organ accompaniment to “The Monastery Hymnal” (131 pages). This book was compiled, arranged, and edited by Achille P. Bragers, who studied at the Lemmensinstituut (Belgium) about thirty years before that school produced the NOH. Bragers might be considered an example of Belgium “Stile Antico” whereas Flor Peeters and Jules Van Nuffel represented Belgium “Prima Pratica.” You can download the hymnal by Bragers at this link.

—Jeff Ostrowski

15 February 2021 • To Capitalize…?

In the Introit for the 6th Sunday after Pentecost, there is a question regarding whether to capitalize the word “christi.” The Vulgata does not, because Psalm 27 is not specifically referring to Our Lord, but rather to God’s “anointed one.” However, Missals tend to capitalize it, such as the official 1962 Missal and also a book from 1777 called Missel de Paris. Something tells me Monsignor Knox would not capitalize it.

—Jeff Ostrowski

15 February 2021 • “Sung vs. Spoken”

We have spoken quite a bit about “sung vs. spoken” antiphons. We have also noted that the texts of the Graduale Romanum sometimes don’t match the Missal texts (in the Extraordinary Form) because the Mass Propers are older than Saint Jerome’s Vulgate, and sometimes came from the ITALA versions of Sacred Scripture. On occasion, the Missal itself doesn’t match the Vulgate—cf. the Introit “Esto Mihi.” The Vulgate has: “Esto mihi in Deum protectórem et in domum refúgii…” but the Missal and Graduale Romanum use “Esto mihi in Deum protectórem et in locum refúgii…” The 1970s “spoken propers” use the traditional version, as you can see.

—Jeff Ostrowski

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