Antiphonale Monasticum II

By (author) Monks of Solesmes

$55.95
  • ISBN: 9782852742819
  • Trim size: 0 x 0 inches
  • Weight: 4 ounces.
  • Publication Date: N/A
  • Product ID: 3000B
  • Format: Hardcover
This is the second volume of the Antiphonale monasticum 2005 (De tempore), given the title of PSALTERIUM. Beginning with the first Vespers of Sunday, the psalterium includes all the daytime offices until Saturday at None: Lauds, Little Hours, Vespers and Compline. The psalms of Lauds, Vespers and Compline are distributed according to the traditional Benedictine curriculum.
At Lauds, we now find the canticles of the Old Testament over four weeks, as in Liturgia Horarum. And an appendix provides the canticles of the New Testament of Vespers. Given the variety of uses of the communities, the psalms of the Little Hours (old psalms of Prime, psalm 118-127) have been grouped together and provided with psalmic antiphons.
For the ferial offices, the book contains all the pieces necessary for singing: hymn, antiphons, psalms, short responsories, verse, antiphons of the Benedictus and the Magnificat, prayer of the Hour. One can also find all the prayers of the temporal at the end of the book. These provisions make it possible to use a single book for the daytime offices of the per annum time.
This volume also contains the Office for the Dead which has been renovated in line with Liturgia Horarum. While retaining the traditional pieces of the Office for the Dead, it makes room for a set of special antiphons for Easter Time.
Author Bio
Since the refounding of the monastery of St. Peter of Solesmes in 1833 under Dom Prosper Gueranger, this Benedictine monastery on the River Sarthe in western France has set the world standard both for the performance of Gregorian chant and the authenticity of the music itself. Commissioned by Pope Pius X to research the role of chant in liturgy and to edit books on chant that reflect this research, Solesmes enjoys an enviable reputation. Its work in liturgical reform and in the current revival of Gregorian chant has been likened to that of the great abbey of Cluny in the Middle Ages. These recordings incorporate new understandings of ancient manuscripts and represent a distillation of nearly 200 years of scholarship in the chant: musical paleography, semiology, and modality. The groundbreaking work by the monks of Solesmes has contributed to today’s resurgence of interest in Gregorian chant as the foundation of Western music.

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