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PDF Download • 17 Organ Accompaniments for the simple “Salve Regina”

Jeff Ostrowski · June 4, 2020

TARTING this Saturday night, we no longer sing “Regina Cæli”—instead, we switch back to “Salve Regina.” That’s because FIRST VESPERS always happens the night before the Feast in question. (TRINITY SUNDAY is this coming Sunday, so “First Vespers” of Trinity Sunday happens on Saturday night.) The Salve Regina has a haunting “Solemn tone,” but most people sing the Simple tone. Veronica Brandt posted both versions in 2017.

The Nova Organi Harmonia website contains the “solemn” tone—but what about the “simple” tone? Here are organ accompaniments you might want to explore:

*  PDF Download • Version 1 (Jeff Ostrowski)
—Jeff tried to make this 2011 version as simple as humanly possible.

*  PDF Download • Version 2 (Father Green)
—Father Andrew Green, OSB, assisted Father Herman Koch with a 1942 hymnal.

*  PDF Download • Version 3 (Father Rossini)
—Father Carlo Rossini had a long career at Saint Paul’s Cathedral (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).

*  PDF Download • Version 4 (Dom Desrocquettes DM)
—D Major Version • Dom Jean-Hébert Desroquettes was organist at Solesmes Abbey.

*  PDF Download • Version 5 (Dom Desrocquettes CM)
—C Major Version • Dom Jean-Hébert Desroquettes was organist at Solesmes Abbey.

*  PDF Download • Version 6 (Dom Murray)
—Dom Andrew Gregory Murray was organist at Downside Abbey.

*  PDF Download • Version 7 (Trappist Monk)
—A Trappist monk wrote this circa 1950.

*  PDF Download • Version 8 (Dr. Marier)
—Dr. Theodore Marier published this version in 1953.

*  PDF Download • Version 9 (Bragers DM)
—D Major Version • Achille P. Bragers studied at the Lemmens Institute (Belgium).

*  PDF Download • Version 10 (Bragers Eb)
—Eb Major Version • Achille P. Bragers studied at the Lemmens Institute (Belgium).

*  PDF Download • Version 11 (Giulio Bas)
—Julius Bas was engaged by Solesmes Abbey to compose accompaniments for the entire Editio Vaticana.

*  PDF Download • Version 12 (Henri Potiron)
—Henri Potiron was choirmaster of Sacred Heart Basilica (Paris) and taught at the Gregorian Institute.

Additional Versions:

*  PDF Download • Malton Boyce (1914)

*  PDF Download • Nicola A. Montani (1920s)

*  PDF Download • Dom Jean Hébert Desrocquettes (unknown)

*  PDF Download • Father Percy Jones (1952)

*  PDF Download • Dr. Eugène Lapierre (1953)

*  PDF Download • Professor Patrick Russill (1998)
—Reproduced by kind permission of the Trustees of the London Oratory.

Note: The excellent accompaniment
by Professor Russill comes from
The Catholic Hymn Book
(Gracewing—Fowler Wright).

I’m thinking of assembling organ accompaniments for all four Marian antiphons (Alma Redemptoris Mater; Ave Regina Caelorum; Regina Caeli; Salve Regina); please let me know—in the Facebook combox—if you would appreciate such a post. Thank you!

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Filed Under: Articles, PDF Download Tagged With: Gregorian Chant Accompaniments, Marian Antiphons Gregorian, Salve Regina Organ Accompaniment Last Updated: November 17, 2020

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About Jeff Ostrowski

Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004). He resides with his wife and children in Los Angeles.—(Read full biography).

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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

Random Quote

In the ’60s, I thought this emphasis on congregational singing was to encourage good Catholic hymns like “Immaculate Mary” and so forth … but after the Council, they threw them out, too!

— ‘Fr. Valentine Young, OFM (2007)’

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