Settings of English Liturgical Texts

I. Responsorial Psalms

Ongoing project to adapt simple chant melodies to English Psalm Responses for the three-year Sunday cycle. Available from the Chabanel Responsorial Psalm Project.

II. Magnificat Antiphons

Simple settings based on Tone VIII Gregorian Chant melodies of the English Magnificat Antiphons for Evening Prayer II, as found in Christian Prayer: The Liturgy of the Hours, for Sundays and Solemnities of the Church Year. Includes solemn and simple tones for the Magnificat canticle in both Latin and English. Available in a Schola Edition, which uses traditional chant notation. Also available in an Accompaniment Edition, which uses modern notation.

III. Simple Choral Gradual

SATB settings of Entrance, Offertory, and Communion Antiphons with accompanying Psalm verses for the Sundays and Solemnities of the Church Year. Suitable for modest mixed choirs, but can be used as unison setting with organ. Currently available on the CMAA website.

IV. Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis

SATB settings of the traditional Anglican Evensong texts. Recordings of Mag and Nunc feature The New York Virtuoso Singers, conducted by Harold Rosenbaum.

V. English Offertories

SATB settings of six Offertory Chants, using English translations from the Grail Psalter, and set in the style of traditional English anthems. These liturgical texts can be used as seasonal motets as well, and Ave Maria for the Fourth Sunday of Advent might be useful throughout the year. The current collection includes Offertories for the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Sundays of Advent, and for the Christmas Vigil and Midnight Masses.