Description Antiphonale Romanum Volume II Hardcover This volume, published in 2009, follows the layout of the Liturgy of the Hours, and each verse of each hymn is set with notes for ease in reading by choirs. With this Antiphonale, one can chant Vespers for Sundays and the Feasts according to present-day custom. It includes Hymns, Antiphons, Psalms, Canticles, Readings, Responses, intercessory prayers, and concluding prayers. At the end of the book are helpful rules and guides for chanting the pieces. Thirty years after the publication of the Liturgia Horarum, this new volume, with the highest standard of musical editing, makes available all elements necessary for the singing of Vespers on Sundays and festivals of the year, bound in a beautiful dark red. TABLE OF CONTENTS 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 books 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. Spread the love
