The Recovering Choir Director

Fr. Columba Kelly OSB of the St. Meinrad Archabbey will be making available PDF booklets of the Missal propers set to plainsong.  At the time of this post, the liturgical year up to Lent is available, but the entire year (and all three cycles) will be made available eventually.  These are for free download and printing, and to be used with the Ordinary Form of the Mass.

Note that these translated antiphons are not the ones found in the 1974 Graduale Romanum or Gregorian Missal for Sundays (the latter of which Solesmes has made freely available to download from MusicaSacra.com); these are the antiphons found in the Missal.  While there is occasional Scriptural concordance, the passages are just as likely to vary between the Missal and the Gradual.  The story behind that peculiarity is worth another post, but by someone else; I don’t have the history behind it down pat.

These antiphons, besides being in English, are compact enough to be sung either before or after a hymn (in the case of the Entrance and Communion processions). As they are literally a part of the Mass (as opposed to hymns, which are in most cases additive at best), more of the Mass will be sung when these are employed.

Anyway, go ahead and visit SacredMusicProject.com and check out Fr. Kelly’s work.

[Via Jeffrey Tucker @ NLM]