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“The origins of some are not known due to the long and nearly untraceable popular usage they have enjoyed.” —Gregorian Institute
“These samples from Connelly make less sense in English than the Latin originals would to a North Korean.” —Msgr. Francis P. Schmitt
I’d like to produce my own version, setting all six verses to different harmonizations.
A thing desired by many!
Uses Gregorian chant with polyphonic _Falsibordone_ by Caesare de Zachariis (†1594).
This free PDF was provided courtesy of the St. Jean de Lalande Library of Rare Books.
I cannot help but think of this hymn collection as his greatest masterpiece.
Many of these melodies cannot be easily found in any other book.
The book is 1,479 pages. The monastery of Solesmes certainly had a staggering output!
Oh, what a difference a thousand years makes…
Your more advanced singers will love this piece by Palestrina!
“It contains about two hundred hymns—all from approved sources—and covers every phase of Catholic devotion.” —Foreword by the Bishop of La Crosse
“We feel that the selection of hymns leaves little to be desired…” —From the 1942 Foreword
“Yet zephyrs vainly fan me, and flow’rs to groves invite…”
This extremely rare Catholic hymn book is here made available for the first time ever as a PDF download.
