New Edition of Chabanel Responsorial Psalms • Edition: 12 May 2014 — Organist & Vocalist

New Edition of Chabanel Responsorial Psalms • Edition: 12 May 2014 — Organist & Vocalist

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HE NEW EDITIONS of the Chabanel Psalms include Holy Days, like the Presentation (2 Feb), Transfiguration (6 Aug), Ss. Peter & Paul (29 June), and many more!

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ORGAN ACCOMPANIMENTS :

* * PDF Download (401 pages)

* * Buy Spiral Bound (401-pages) $25.99

VOCALIST :

* * PDF Download (206 pages)

* * Buy Perfect Bound (206-pages) $12.99

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These new editions (12 May 2014) correspond to the St. Isaac Jogues Illuminated Missal, Lectionary, & Gradual, but are virtually identical to Responsorial Psalms found in the Vatican II Hymnal, except the following:

— 1st Sunday of Advent, Year A
— 1st Sunday of Lent, Year C
— Ascension of the Lord, Years ABC
— 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
— 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C (Option 2)
— Christ the King Sunday, Year C
— Nativity of St. John the Baptist (24 June), Years ABC
— All Saints (1 November), Years ABC
— Immaculate Conception (8 December), Years ABC
— Catholic Weddings (Nuptial Mass)
— Catholic Funerals (Requiem Mass)
— Sacrament of Confirmation (Ritual Mass)

Organists will love the total lack of page turns and appreciate the various transpositions included. Choirmasters will be happy each vocalist score fits on one (1) page, so xerox copies can be made easily if needed.

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

Had the Church never spoken on this matter, it would still be repugnant to our Catholic people’s sense of what is fit and proper in the holiest of places, that a priest should have to struggle through the prayers of the Holy Mass, because of such tunes as “Alice, where art thou?” the “Vacant Chair,” and others of more vulgar title, which, through the carelessness or bad judgment of organists, sometimes find their way into our choirs.

— Preface to a Roman Catholic Hymnal (1896)