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''"In churches we return to the great musical heritage. We need to say enough to songs or guitar strumming on useless and insipid lyrics." (Riccardo Muti)<ref>Avvenire, 22/05/2011, "Muti: no a canzonette in chiesa", https://www.avvenire.it/agora/pagine/muti-no-a-canzonette-in-chiesa_201105230916176830000</ref>''
''"In churches we return to the great musical heritage. We need to say enough to songs or guitar strumming on useless and insipid lyrics." (Riccardo Muti)<ref>Avvenire, 22/05/2011, "Muti: no a canzonette in chiesa", https://www.avvenire.it/agora/pagine/muti-no-a-canzonette-in-chiesa_201105230916176830000</ref>''
''"Gregorian chant, as proper to the Roman liturgy, should be given pride of place, other things being equal. Its melodies, contained in the "typical" editions, should be used, to the extent that this is possible." ([[Musicam Sacram]], n. 50-a)<ref>Cfr. SC 116 e [[Musicam Sacram]], n. 50-a</ref>''
''"Gregorian chant, as proper to the Roman liturgy, should be given pride of place, other things being equal. Its melodies, contained in the "typical" editions, should be used, to the extent that this is possible." ([[Musicam Sacram]], n. 50-a)<ref>Cfr. SC 116 e [[Musicam Sacram]], n. 50-a</ref>''
''"Sacred music must consequently possess in the best degree the qualities that are proper to the liturgy, and precisely the sanctity and goodness of the forms, from which its other characteristic, which is universality, arises spontaneously." (TRA LE SOLLECITUDINI, St. Pius X)<ref>TRA LE SOLLECITUDINI, St. Pius X, 22/11/1903.</ref>''
''"The Roman Rite constitutes a notable and precious part of the treasure and liturgical patrimony of the Catholic Church; its riches benefit the good of the whole Church, so much so that their loss would seriously harm her." ([[General Instruction of the Roman Missal (2nd Edition)]])<ref>[[General Instruction of the Roman Missal (2nd Edition)]], num. 397.</ref>''
'"If it does not possess at the same time the sense of prayer, dignity and beauty, music - instrumental and vocal - precludes itself from entering the sphere of the sacred and the religious". (Saint Paul VI)<ref>Address of Paul VI to the members of the Italian Association of Saint Cecilia, Wednesday, September 18, 1968, link: http://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/it/speeches/1968/september/documents/hf_p-vi_spe_19680918_santa-cecilia.html.</ref>''
''"We do not sing because we are happy; we are happy because we sing. (William James)"''
''"God respects me when I work, he loves me when I sing. (Rabindranath Tagore)"''
''"What was sacred to previous generations remains sacred and great for us too, and cannot suddenly be completely prohibited or even judged harmful." (Benedict XVI)<ref>Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Bishops on the occasion of the publication of the apostolic letter "Motu Proprio Data" SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM on the use of the Roman Liturgy prior to the Reformation carried out in 1970.</ref>''
''"Let us try to restore Gregorian chant to the use of the people, so that the faithful may once again take a more active part in the ecclesiastical office, as was the custom in ancient times. (Saint Pius X)"''
''""Gregorian chant is for sacred music what light is for trees: life." (Solange Corbin)"''
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<h3><span style="color:green">Canti per Tipologia</span></h3>
<h3><span style="color:green">Types of Chants</span></h3>
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<h3><span style="color:blue">Introitum</span></h3>
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<h3><span style="color:blue">Tractus</span></h3>
The '''Tract''' (in Latin ''Tractus'', in Ambrosian chant ''Cantus'') is a liturgical chant between the readings, which belongs to the Proper of the Mass. In the Tridentine Mass it replaces the Alleluia verse during Lent, during the Season of Septuagesima, and in Masses for the dead. After the liturgical reform of the Roman rite in 1969, in the acclamation before the Gospel, one may sing instead of the Alleluia during Lent either the verse placed in the Lectionary before the Gospel, or another psalm or a tract as found in the Gradual<ref>General Instruction of the Roman Missal. Link: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20030317_ordinamento-messale_it.html</ref>.
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<h3><span style="color:blue">Graduals - Gradualia</span></h3>
The '''gradual''', formerly called ''Responsorium Graduale'', is a melismatic inter-lecture chant that belongs to the proper of the Mass. Its name derives from the Latin ''gradus'', step, because originally the singers sang the gradual while remaining on the steps of the ambo.
In the current liturgical order of the Roman rite, it can be sung after the first reading, using the Gregorian or polyphonic repertoire, with the function of an invitation to meditate on the Word heard. More frequently the gradual is not sung and is then replaced by the responsorial psalm prescribed by the missal. During Easter time the gradual is not contemplated, another alleluia chant is performed in its place, with the exception of the octave of Easter.
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<h3><span style="color:blue">Psalms - Psalmus</span></h3>
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<h3><span style="color:blue">Sequentia</span></h3>
The '''sequence''', often also called by its Latin name ''sequentia'', is a liturgical musical poetic composition that is recited (or sung) at the end of the second reading while the assembly remains seated until its end and at the Alleluia that acclaims the Gospel one stands up.
The sequence belongs to the proper of the mass: its text therefore varies according to the liturgical occasion celebrated.
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<h3><span style="color:blue">''Cantus in Ordine Missae Occurrentes''<br />Kyriale</span></h3>
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<h3><span style="color:blue">''Cantus in Ordine Missae Occurrentes''<br />Toni Communes</span></h3>
In questa sezione del sito sono riportati i toni comuni relativi alle parti della Messa in canto gregoriano, secondo il Graduale Romanum/Triplex 1974/1979.
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'''I - AD RITUS INITIALES'''<br />
* [[In nomine Patris (Signum Crucis)]]
* [[Formula salutationis I]]
* [[Formula salutationis II]]
* [[Formula salutationis III]]
'''II - PRO ORATIONIBUS'''<br />
* [[Toni orationum (A)]]
* [[Toni orationum (B)]]
'''III - AD LITURGIAM VERBI'''<br />
''Toni Lectionum''<br />
* [[Toni lectionum (Lectio I)]]
* [[Toni lectionum (Lectio II vel unica ante evangelium)]]
''Toni evangelii''<br />
* [[Toni evangelii A]]
'''IV - AD PRECEM EUCHARISTICAM'''<br />
''Ante praefationem''<br />
* [[Dominus vobiscum - Ante praefationes (Tonus Simplex)]]
* [[Dominus vobiscum - Ante praefationes (Tonus Sollemnis)]]
''Post consecrationem''<br />
* [[Mysterium fidei (Post consecrationem)]]
''Ad doxologiam''<br />
* [[Per ipsum - ad doxologiam (tonus simplex)]]
* [[Per ipsum - ad doxologiam (tonus sollemnis)]]
'''V - AD RITUS COMMUNIONIS'''<br />
*[[Pater Noster (A)|Toni orationis Dominicae A]]
''Tonus embolismi et ad pacem''<br />
* [[Tonus embolismi (Libera nos, quaesumus Domine)]]
* [[Ad pacem (Domine Iesu Christe - Pax Domini)]]
'''VI. AD RITUS CONCLUSIONIS'''<br />
''Ad benedictionem simplicem''<br />
* [[Dominus vobiscum (Benedictionem simplicem - A)]]
* [[Dominus vobiscum (Benedictionem simplicem - B)]]
''Ad benedictionem sollemn<br />et orationes super populum''<br />
* [[Dominus vobiscum (Benedictionem sollemnem- A)]]
* [[Dominus vobiscum (Benedictionem sollemnem - B)]]
''Ad benedictionem episcopalem''<br />
* [[Dominus vobiscum (Benedictionem episcopalem - A)]]
* [[Dominus vobiscum (Benedictionem episcopalem - B)]]
''Ad dimittendum populum''<br />
* [[Ite missa est]]
'''VII. TONI V. GLORIA PATRI PRO ANTIPHONIS AD INTROITUM ET AD COMMUNIONEM'''<br />
* [[I Tono Gloria Patri (Introitus et Communionis)]]<ref name="gradualeromanum75"></ref>
* [[II Tono Gloria Patri (Introitus et Communionis)]]<ref name="gradualeromanum75"></ref>
* [[III Tono Gloria Patri (Introitus et Communionis)]]<ref name="gradualeromanum75"></ref>
* [[IV Tono Gloria Patri (Introitus et Communionis)]]<ref name="gradualeromanum75"></ref>
* [[V Tono Gloria Patri (Introitus et Communionis)]]<ref name="gradualeromanum75"></ref>
* [[VI Tono Gloria Patri (Introitus et Communionis)]]<ref name="gradualeromanum75"></ref>
* [[VII Tono Gloria Patri (Introitus et Communionis)]]<ref name="gradualeromanum75"></ref>
* [[VIII Tono Gloria Patri (Introitus et Communionis)]]<ref name="gradualeromanum75"></ref>
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<h3><span style="color:blue">Responsoria</span></h3>
The '''responsory''' is the chant that follows the reading in the liturgy of the hours of the Catholic Church. The name of responsory traditionally given to this piece, testifies to its original form of responsorial psalmody where the schola sang a psalm or a canticle and the assembly responded by singing an antiphon after each verse. Its evolved form, still in use today, does not fully reflect its authenticity of the roles between the soloist and the people, the number of verses has been significantly reduced and a final doxology has been added (''Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto'').
There are two types of responsory:
* '''responsorium breve''', very short in its current form and of an extremely simpler character and suitable for the daily office.
* '''responsorium prolixum''', used in the nocturne after each lesson. It is distinguished from the short responsory by its prolixity, both of text and melody. In the repertoire of Gregorian chant, nine prolix responsories of the Roman office and twelve of the monastic office are known.
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<h3><span style="color:red">Alphabetical Index of the chants present</span></h3>
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* [[Missa VIII (Missa de Angelis)]]
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<h3><span style="color:red">Chants during the Liturgical Year<ref>The list is not exhaustive and is continuously updated.</ref></span></h3>
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<h3><span style="color:red">Liturgia Horarum</span></h3>
This section of the site contains the common tones, responsories, hymns and antiphons of the Liturgy of the Hours in Gregorian chant, according to the latest published volumes (Antiphonale Romanum I and II, Antiphonale Monasticum I of 2005).
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'''Toni Communes'''
''Ad ritum initialem''
* [[Domine, labia mea aperies (Tonus ferialis)]]
* [[Domine, labia mea aperies (Tonus festivus)]]
* [[Deus, in adiutorium meum (ferialis, dominicis et festis)]]<ref name="antiphonaleromanumii">Antiphonale Romanum II, 2005</ref>
* [[Deus, in adiutorium meum (In solemnitatibus)]]<ref name="antiphonaleromanumii"></ref>
''De cantu psalmorum''
* [[Tonus Psalmorum I]]<ref name="antiphonaleromanumii"></ref>
* [[Tonus Psalmorum II]]<ref name="antiphonaleromanumii"></ref>
* [[Tonus Psalmorum II*]]<ref name="antiphonaleromanumii"></ref>
* [[Tonus Psalmorum III]]<ref name="antiphonaleromanumii"></ref>
* [[Tonus Psalmorum IV]]<ref name="antiphonaleromanumii"></ref>
* [[Tonus Psalmorum IV*]]<ref name="antiphonaleromanumii"></ref>
* [[Tonus Psalmorum V]]<ref name="antiphonaleromanumii"></ref>
* [[Tonus Psalmorum VI]]<ref name="antiphonaleromanumii"></ref>
* [[Tonus Psalmorum VII]]<ref name="antiphonaleromanumii"></ref>
* [[Tonus Psalmorum VIII]]<ref name="antiphonaleromanumii"></ref>
* [[Tonus Psalmorum Peregrinus]]<ref name="antiphonaleromanumii"></ref>
''Ad Completorium''
* [[Te lucis ante terminum (ad Completorium)]]<ref name="antiphonaleromanumii"></ref>
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== Documents and Books ==
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<h3><span style="color:#6C0A97">The Gregorian Chant</span></h3>
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'''Trattazioni''':
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_chant Gregorian chant on WikiPedia.org];
<span style="color: green;>'''Downloadable Gregorian Chant Books - Official Editions:''':</span>
* [[Graduale Romanum 1974]]
* [[Graduale Simplex 1975]]
* [[Liber Hymnarius 1983 (Antiphonale Romanum Tomus Alter)]]
<span style="color: blue;>'''Downloadable Gregorian Chant Books - Complementary Editions''':</span>
* [[Liber Usualis|Liber Usualis (1961)]];
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<h3><span style="color:#6C0A97">Sacred Music and the Liturgy</span></h3>
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* [[Tra le sollecitudini (1903)]]
* [[Musicam Sacram|Musicam Sacram, Second Vatican Council, (1967)]]
* [[Chirograph of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II for the centenary of the Motu Proprio "Tra le sollecitudini" on the Sacred Music]]
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<h3><span style="color:#6C0A97">Gregorian Chant Books to Buy (Solesmes Abbey)</span></h3>
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File:Graduale-triplex.jpg|<center>'''[https://www.solesmes.com/node/9068?position=3&list=U1A57Bs2Sf1sQ3TK7L_wdHvmSuk1cZt-ANd5otNraDw Graduale Triplex (1979)<br />by www.Solesmes.com]'''</center>
File:Liber-cantualis.jpg|<center>'''[https://www.solesmes.com/node/9075?position=8&list=U1A57Bs2Sf1sQ3TK7L_wdHvmSuk1cZt-ANd5otNraDw Liber Cantualis (1995)<br />by www.Solesmes.com]'''</center>
File:Graduale-novum-2011-tomo-1.jpg|<center>'''[https://www.solesmes.com/node/9189?position=11&list=rwW4taHL9SuyRm4ByZz7WC3V-AnBsfuxEG2MZEvIy2A GRADUALE NOVUM (2011), Tomo 1: De Dominicis Et Festis<br />by www.Solesmes.com]'''</center>
File:Graduale-novum-2011-tomo-2.jpg|<center>'''[https://www.solesmes.com/node/16867?position=1&list=rwW4taHL9SuyRm4ByZz7WC3V-AnBsfuxEG2MZEvIy2A GRADUALE NOVUM (2011), Tomo 2: De Feriis Et Sanctis<br />by www.Solesmes.com]'''</center>
File:Antiphonale-romanum-i.jpg|<center>'''[https://www.solesmes.com/node/16970?position=0&list=xJz8emYlkDB6IMoJ4Enz6HXMdXngK_DzBaT6aL5gAzY Antiphonale Romanum Vol. I<br />www.solesmes.com]'''</center>
File:Antiphonale-romanum-ii.jpg|<center>'''[https://www.solesmes.com/node/9191?position=7&list=xJz8emYlkDB6IMoJ4Enz6HXMdXngK_DzBaT6aL5gAzY Antiphonale Romanum Vol. II<br />www.solesmes.com]'''</center>
File:Antiphonale-monasticum-1934-3003.jpg|<center>'''[https://www.solesmes.com/node/9069?position=12&list=qqMr-mHbWVap_3QBo4s4uBWXeGvJMOWI4RaerzabyTc Antiphonale Monasticum 1934<br />su www.solesmes.com]'''</center>
File:Graduale-romanum-comitante-organo-volume-1.jpg|<center>'''[https://www.solesmes.com/node/9090?position=0&list=gaKvZUhHhdUqKHHGYV7vbrCk_-ysylQY_jFLGnY1d4c Graduale Romanum Comitante Organo - Vol. 1 Feasts and Solemnities]'''</center>
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The Gregorian Chant website
On this website, you can find the most famous Gregorian chants used in the Roman Catholic Liturgy. The songs are accompanied by Latin text, English translation (where available) and scores in square notation.

This website contains 71 pages and 37 sheet music files in JPG and PDF format to use and download.

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"What was sacred to previous generations remains sacred and great for us too, and cannot suddenly be completely prohibited or even judged harmful." (Benedict XVI)[1]

Antiphonae

Introitum

Hymnus

Tractus

The Tract (in Latin Tractus, in Ambrosian chant Cantus) is a liturgical chant between the readings, which belongs to the Proper of the Mass. In the Tridentine Mass it replaces the Alleluia verse during Lent, during the Season of Septuagesima, and in Masses for the dead. After the liturgical reform of the Roman rite in 1969, in the acclamation before the Gospel, one may sing instead of the Alleluia during Lent either the verse placed in the Lectionary before the Gospel, or another psalm or a tract as found in the Gradual[2].

Graduals - Gradualia

The gradual, formerly called Responsorium Graduale, is a melismatic inter-lecture chant that belongs to the proper of the Mass. Its name derives from the Latin gradus, step, because originally the singers sang the gradual while remaining on the steps of the ambo.

In the current liturgical order of the Roman rite, it can be sung after the first reading, using the Gregorian or polyphonic repertoire, with the function of an invitation to meditate on the Word heard. More frequently the gradual is not sung and is then replaced by the responsorial psalm prescribed by the missal. During Easter time the gradual is not contemplated, another alleluia chant is performed in its place, with the exception of the octave of Easter.

Psalms - Psalmus

Alleluia - Versus alleluiatici


Sequentia

The sequence, often also called by its Latin name sequentia, is a liturgical musical poetic composition that is recited (or sung) at the end of the second reading while the assembly remains seated until its end and at the Alleluia that acclaims the Gospel one stands up.

The sequence belongs to the proper of the mass: its text therefore varies according to the liturgical occasion celebrated.

Offertorium

Communio

Varie

Cantus in Ordine Missae Occurrentes
Kyriale

Cantus in Ordine Missae Occurrentes
Toni Communes

In questa sezione del sito sono riportati i toni comuni relativi alle parti della Messa in canto gregoriano, secondo il Graduale Romanum/Triplex 1974/1979.

I - AD RITUS INITIALES

II - PRO ORATIONIBUS

III - AD LITURGIAM VERBI
Toni Lectionum

Toni evangelii

IV - AD PRECEM EUCHARISTICAM
Ante praefationem

Post consecrationem

Ad doxologiam

V - AD RITUS COMMUNIONIS

Tonus embolismi et ad pacem

VI. AD RITUS CONCLUSIONIS
Ad benedictionem simplicem

Ad benedictionem sollemn
et orationes super populum

Ad benedictionem episcopalem

Ad dimittendum populum

VII. TONI V. GLORIA PATRI PRO ANTIPHONIS AD INTROITUM ET AD COMMUNIONEM

Responsoria

The responsory is the chant that follows the reading in the liturgy of the hours of the Catholic Church. The name of responsory traditionally given to this piece, testifies to its original form of responsorial psalmody where the schola sang a psalm or a canticle and the assembly responded by singing an antiphon after each verse. Its evolved form, still in use today, does not fully reflect its authenticity of the roles between the soloist and the people, the number of verses has been significantly reduced and a final doxology has been added (Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto).

There are two types of responsory:

  • responsorium breve, very short in its current form and of an extremely simpler character and suitable for the daily office.
  • responsorium prolixum, used in the nocturne after each lesson. It is distinguished from the short responsory by its prolixity, both of text and melody. In the repertoire of Gregorian chant, nine prolix responsories of the Roman office and twelve of the monastic office are known.

Alphabetical Index of the chants present

Chants during the Liturgical Year[4]

Liturgia Horarum

This section of the site contains the common tones, responsories, hymns and antiphons of the Liturgy of the Hours in Gregorian chant, according to the latest published volumes (Antiphonale Romanum I and II, Antiphonale Monasticum I of 2005).

Documents and Books

Note

  1. ↑ Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Bishops on the occasion of the publication of the apostolic letter "Motu Proprio Data" SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM on the use of the Roman Liturgy prior to the Reformation carried out in 1970.
  2. ↑ General Instruction of the Roman Missal. Link: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20030317_ordinamento-messale_it.html
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named gradualeromanum75
  4. ↑ The list is not exhaustive and is continuously updated.
  5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 Antiphonale Romanum II, 2005
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