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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.

Famous quotes:

"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)[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. ↑ Avvenire, 22/05/2011, "Muti: no a canzonette in chiesa", https://www.avvenire.it/agora/pagine/muti-no-a-canzonette-in-chiesa_201105230916176830000
  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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