Sunday, 30 October 2011

Singing the new translation

On Tuesday (All Saints' Day) at 6 p.m., there will be a meeting at the parish church to learn some of the music of the new Missal (Mass will follow at 7 p.m.). There's quite a lot of material online to help us learn this music, but here are a few sound samples that have been provided by the monks of Pluscarden Abbey for the diocesan website:

Kyrie (the final, ornamented repeat of 'Kyrie eleison' is optional);

Preface dialogue;

Holy, holy, holy;

Lamb of God.

[Full list here.]

The only thing missing from this helpful resource is the three memorial acclamations, but these are found on the Roman Missal Scotland website.

The acclamation we've been using most often is this one: We proclaim.

Update: I have been looking for people's music sheets to print off, and have found three useful ones:
one from the Liturgy Office of England & Wales (click on 'Booklet of Chants'), which is very comprehensive but runs to two double sided sheets of A4, folded & stapled;
one from the Diocese of Sioux Falls (USA) which fits on a double sided sheet of A4, folded;
and one from the Australian National Liturgical Music Board (click on 'Assembly Melody'), which is on two sides of A4 (unfolded, so a bit awkward to hold at Mass), but which is a much more practical singing edition - it doesn't include the shorter responses, but these are perhaps best learnt by ear anyway.

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