PDF Download • Rossini’s “Canticum Novum” (1935)
A Collection of 115 Motets and Hymns, with an Easy Mass for Two Equal Voices.
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PDF Download • “Mount Mary Hymnal” (1937)
All 255 pages of this famous hymn book can now be downloaded as a PDF.
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PDF Download • “Gloria In Excelsis” With 3-Voice Polyphony By Cristóbal De Morales
Could this have something to do with how each line comes through “cleanly” in 3-part music?
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PDF Download • “A Manual For Church Musicians” (1964) — 130 pages
A generous reader sent me copies of this extremely rare book.
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Veni Sancte Spiritus | Two Free Resources
Two free resources for the Pentecost Sequence, “Veni Sancte Spiritus”
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PDF Downloads • Vernacular Mass Settings Published During The 1960s
If they were set upon avoiding the word “men,” I wish ICEL would have done something like “peace on earth to *those* of good will.”
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PDF Download • “The Parish Hymnal” (1957)
“The origins of some are not known due to the long and nearly untraceable popular usage they have enjoyed.” —Gregorian Institute
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PDF Download • “Hymns Of The Roman Liturgy” (Rev. Joseph Connelly, 1955)
“These samples from Connelly make less sense in English than the Latin originals would to a North Korean.” —Msgr. Francis P. Schmitt
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PDF Download • Organ Accompaniment for “Vita Sanctorum”
I’d like to produce my own version, setting all six verses to different harmonizations.
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PDF Download: Organ Accompaniment to “Et Valde Mane” • 1955 Easter Vigil
A thing desired by many!
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Free PDF • Polyphonic Gloria With Practice Videos
Uses Gregorian chant with polyphonic _Falsibordone_ by Caesare de Zachariis (†1594).
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PDF Download • 1895 “Liber Responsorialis” by Solesmes Abbey
This free PDF was provided courtesy of the St. Jean de Lalande Library of Rare Books.
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PDF Download: “67 Hymns” Arranged & Translated by Rev. Adrian Fortescue (1913)
I cannot help but think of this hymn collection as his greatest masterpiece.
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PDF Download: Two (2) Rare Franciscan Chant Books
Many of these melodies cannot be easily found in any other book.
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PDF Download: 1896 “Liber Usualis” • Extremely Rare
The book is 1,479 pages. The monastery of Solesmes certainly had a staggering output!
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