The Recovering Choir Director

Richard Rice, the master chant typesetter and editor of The Parish Book of Chant, has taken selected verses from the Offertoriale Triplex, set them to the psalm tones sung at the Introit and Communion, supplied English translations of the Latin, included performance notes, and compiled them all into a neat little PDF formatted volume to download and print in a booklet format. This booklet perfectly fills a niche created by, among others, those intermediate- to advanced-level scholas that focus their efforts exclusively on Gregorian chant but haven’t the resources to pull off the florid verses from the Offertoriale Triplex.

His work on The Parish Book of Chant and this volume is so impressive that one hopes that purchasable hard copies of the latter may be made available soon.

(Courtesy of Jeffrey Tucker at NLM)