I am very grateful for the patience of those who have been waiting for Simple Propers for the Advent Season. I feel very badly about cutting it so close with this week’s offering. My apologies. Our goal (and I am working with two other contributors on the final product) is to have the rest of the Advent Season done and available by the end of this week, and to have much of the Christmas Season done by the end of next week. I realize that this is still not ideal, but I am very appreciative to all who have taken the leap to begin using these settings in liturgy. Your feedback has been invaluable, and the “beta” phase of this project has truly helped form and polish this collection so that it will best meet the needs of musicians out in the real world of parish liturgy.
A few notes this week:
-The full “Glory Be” has been removed from the end of the Introit. Now we only have the first words “Glory be to the Father…”. While this doxology is known pretty well by most Catholics it still may not be easily sung from memory by all. We will have the full “Glory Be” notated in square notes in every psalm tone in the back of the book for people to reference when they need to, much like our current Graduale. You can find the “Glory Be” sheet here for your future use.
-The “Glory Be” has also been suggested for use at the end of the Communion chant, according to the rubrics of the Ordo Cantus Missae, 1988.
-We are now indexing the Simple Propers as they are being produced for the final edition on the CMAA website, musicasacra.com. You can always go to this page for the newest updates and for the most recent versions of Simple Propers editions. I hope that we will see this page begin to rapidly fill up in the coming weeks and months!
Many blessings to you all in this Advent Season!
I know you have so much going on with this project already, but would it be possible to have all of the propers on the CMAA website? The simple propers along with the Meinrad tone propers?
Thank you so much for taking on this wonderful project!
Adam, I have been adding the Glory be on my own to the Communion chant and encourage you to include it too.
Question: Does it have to be, in this case, the traditional translation in English or can it be more literal…"as it was in the beginning, is now and will be forever, even unto the ages of ages. Amen."…Anything rubrically incorrect about this?
@ Brent: Look at the post again! I just began indexing them on the CMAA site today! The complete Meinrad tone antiphons should be done soon (these are no-brainers) and they will be included there likely in one big file.
@ David: Great! I wasn't sure about the rubric here, so I'm glad now that the Glory Be will also be added to the Communion from here on out.
I did go with the translation because of its familiarity in the Catholic consciousness. I do like "unto the ages of ages"–perhaps nothing rubrically incorrect–but I thought the current translation would be more familiar to Catholics.
Guess my comment didn't count as intelligent, haha! Thanks for answering anyway 🙂
I love the Communion Antiphon for Advent II; can't wait to sing it on Saturday evening…we're still working on the Sunday morning parish but hey, last week we did the simple Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus!