Gradual booklets:
Vespers booklets:
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
VesperaleOP
Chants for the 4th Week in Ordinary Time
Gradual booklets:
Vespers booklets:
4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
Chants for the 2nd and 3rd Sundays in Ordinary Time
Epiphany
Graduale Chants: The Epiphany of the Lord
Vespers Chants: The Epiphany of the Lord
Photo by Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P.: “This medieval fresco of the adoration of the Magi is in the 12th-century cloister of Salamanca’s cathedral.”
31st Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gradual chants: 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time
Vespers chants: 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time
Vespers and Mass Chants for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Vespers and Mass chants for the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Here are the booklets for this Sunday:
Vespers booklet: 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
Mass booklet: 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Two of the chants in the Mass booklet (offertory Meditabor and communion Domine Dominus noster) feature low B-flats. These present an interesting theoretical/editorial conundrum. To learn more, you can look at this discussion on Musicologie Médiévale.
I have also begun to upload certain important historical Dominican chant books on this page. I have formatted these with proper logical pagination to make them easier to navigate.
Vespers and Mass Chants for the 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Here are the chants for next Sunday for Mass and Vespers:
Mass Chants for the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Vespers for the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
(Updated 10/12/16 to include the Year A Gradual for Mass and other small changes in the Mass booklet and for a typo correction in the Vespers booklet.)
Vespers and Mass chants for the 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Here are the Mass and Vespers chants for the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Second Vespers for the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Here is the booklet for Second Vespers for the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
In this booklet I have adjusted the layout such that it fits easily on 12 pages, including the full Magnificat antiphon. I have also corrected the first psalm antiphon and left the unusual cautionary accidental in the second psalm antiphon. Thanks to the observation of a Dominican confrere, I realized that I had included a “hybrid” form of the Magnificat in the first booklet, i.e. mixing the versions of the Neo-Vulgate and Vulgate texts. I have restored the full Vulgate text, following the example of the Antiphonale Romanum II. (I have updated the booklet for the 25th Sunday as well.)
The Magnificat antiphon, “Dives ille,” does not appear in the medieval Dominican repertoire, so I’ve given the version from Antiphonale Romanum II. I have paired it with the Magnificat canticle differentia setting that is called for by the Dominican Regulae Cantus, as the EUOUAE provided in ARII is not found in the Dominican tradition. (The Regulae Cantus gives a list of the “Usus differentiarum” for different antiphon incipit formulae, allowing you to determine which version is appropriate.) Interestingly, the antiphon text is not from the Gospel of the Sunday, but from Gregory the Great’s Hom. in Evang. XL, 5, 21 (cf. Ordo Cantus Officii 2015, p. 124). The melody is much simpler than most Gospel Magnificat antiphons.
The collect for this Sunday is one of the most beautiful in the repertoire:
O God, who manifest your almighty power above all by pardoning and showing mercy, bestow, we pray, your grace abundantly upon us and make those hastening to attain your promises heirs to the treasures of heaven. rough our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Throughout his writings, Thomas Aquinas quotes this prayer again and again, alongside a related prayer that speaks of it being proper to God to be merciful and to spare. More recently, Pope Francis has taken to quoting this collect in various places in connection with the Year of Mercy, so the recitation of the prayer this Sunday will have a special resonance.
Image: Capital of Dives and Lazarus, Vezélay; photo by Jim Forest
Cantus O.P. 