100% Scrolling Score • “What Exactly Is Vespers?”
For those who have never experienced Vespers, an answer like that comes across as “gobbledygook.”
Vespers
PDF Download • Vespers Organ Accompaniment — “Our Lady of Guadalupe” (12 December)
Vatican II said: “Pastors must see to it that Vespers is celebrated in parishes on Sundays and the more solemn feasts” (SC §100).
PDF Download • Commemorating Dr. Fayrfax
A massively underrated composer died 500 years ago today.
PDF Download • “Vespers Booklet” (15 August, Assumption) — 20 pages
Also included, an organ accompaniment (23 pages) for this booklet.
“What is Vespers?” • Live Rec. + 100% Scrolling Score
After more than a year of Vespers having been forbidden (due to Covid-19) we’re back!
(29 Pages) • Free Organ Accompaniment Book — Draft copy
The following is what I will use to accompany the congregation tomorrow.
PDF Download • Vespers Booklet for This Sunday (draft)
Starting pitches are included!
Solesmes Publishes “Antiphonale Romanum I” for Lauds
This 2020 chant edition makes possible the chanting of Lauds according to the Liturgy of the Hours.
Live Recording (42 min) • “Vespers for the Sacred Heart”
You will hear, as the service progresses, how unisons become more and more refined and how subtlety finds its way into the psalmody.
Accompanying Gregorian Chant: “Counter-Melody”
Do you hear the little counter-melody added by the organist to several verses?
PDF Download • Vespers Organ Accompaniments
Do you understand why some of the harmonies are blank?
PDF Download • Spectacular “Tenebrae” Booklet
Mr. Albert Bloomfield has done us a breathtaking favor.
Counter-Melodies • “Accompaniment of Psalm Tones”
Go to the 1:07 marker and you will hear something worth dying for…
PDF Download • “Sunday Vespers”
…including a failed descant from 1983.