« Previous: A Musical Journey through GIRM: § 102-104 - Roles of Musicians
Next: Haiku! »

Chanting the Rosary

Here is an elaboration on an earlier attempt to clothe the Rosary in song. It’s a 6-page PDF file that is designed to be printed and folded into a booklet. I hope that use of the melodies contained in it will inspire people to deeper contemplation of the mysteries it adorns.

Corrections and suggestions are most welcome.

View Chanting the Rosary—English version with Gregorian notation (46 KB—right/option-click to download)

Posted 04.30.2003
by Aristotle Esguerra
5 comments.
Filed under: Anglican and English-language chant; Devotional Music; Liturgical Music on Paper.

Leave a Reply




*Required. E-Mail will not be published.


*
To prove you're a person (not a spam script), type the security word shown in the picture. Click on the picture to hear an audio file of the word.
Click to hear an audio file of the anti-spam word

5 Comments

Wow, thanks!

We chanted the Divine Mercy Chaplet instead of our usual (spoken) rosary at my parish last Sunday afternoon.

Maybe I can interest them in changin the rosary some time.


Geraldine
04.30.2003 @ 5:46 pm #

I was looking at this at home and I seem to recall it looking okay; however when I look at the PDF at work the chant stuff doesn’t display right. Do I need some special font?


Gordon Zaft
05.01.2003 @ 7:26 pm #

I am desperately looking for a CD of some Nuns who chant and they refer to themselves as “Droying Cholma”. Would you happen to know where I can find this? Thank you so very Much!
Susan
girlbarber1@hotmail.com


Susan Greeson
11.08.2003 @ 8:05 pm #

Aris, I tried using this last night with my family. You are to be congratulated on the work in general. The feel of doing praying with chant is defintely more spiritually enriching. It had a bit of a Byzantine sense to it.

However, there were a few places where the fit of the words to the psalm tone was more or less strained. The one that stands out the most in my mind right now is the last line of the Hail Mary. I think, in stead of descending on “our death Amen,” you should have descended on “of our death”, and just added “Amen” as dotted notes, recto tono. I don’t know if that disturbs too much the psalm tone, but it seems to me the only you can convey the sense that the prayer should finish with “death” on the last note, and the “Amen” should be added to it.


Paul Rex
06.07.2004 @ 11:40 pm #

This “Chanting the Rosary” booklet is absolutely wonderful, even for a musical illiterate such as myself. But has anyone ever done the same for “The Angelus” and set it to chant?


Gilbert Colon
01.10.2006 @ 10:55 pm #

« Previous: A Musical Journey through GIRM: § 102-104 - Roles of Musicians
Next: Haiku! »
A Musical Journey through GIRM