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Jeffrey Tucker has posted the Exsultet from the Birmingham Oratory on the NLM blog . It is magnificent! The piece is 9:45 in length and recorded at the Easter Vigil in 2008.

Jeffrey Tucker at the NLM discloses an amazing find: a 1923 edition of the " Officium Majoris Hebdomadæ Et Octavæ Paschæ ." This book contains the entire "sung" liturgy of Holy Week and not just Masses! Go here for more information ! As Tucker says: If anyone in your parish is rather stuck in a Holy Week rut--it can easily happen--it is a great link or text to send to illustrate just how vast and detailed the ideal repertoire is. After all, the book is 553 pages! Bravo!

Here it is! To quote Jeffrey Tucker: It's been my dream--and many share it-- that the Gregorian Missal could be examined by every Catholic musician in the English-speaking world . It wouldn't cause an immediate outbreak of chant in every parish. I know this. But it would change the debate. It would illustrate what we fanatics have been saying for so long. It would illustrate what Vatican II intended. It would instill a sense of the ideal. It would make it clear that chant is the music of the Roman Rite. It would provide direction for the future. The hermeneutic of continuity between old and new would become clear. We could begin again to stitch together our practice with our tradition. Glorious news: the Solesmes Abbey has made this possible. The monastery has given permission to the Church Music Association of America to upload a beautiful copy, fully bookmarked, online at MusicaSacra.com. It is here, the first universally downloadable presentation of the Gregorian Missal ....

I have had numerous searches for the Grail Psalms. Jeffrey Tucker does a fine job setting down his reservations in a cogent article . I think this article is one that is worth looking at and discussing. I hope it gets wide coverage in the U.S.

Jeffrey Tucker has posted an awesome link: a registry of Scholas that is linked to Frappr . You have to check it out to believe it! NB: The National Registry of Gregorian Scholas is now listed in the Right Menu under Blogroll and Favorite Websites .

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Gregor Kollmorgen of the NLM has posted an excellent find from H.E. Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith, Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. In an interview with Die Tagepost , H.E. made some interesting comments . Go to the NLM to see what they have posted.

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Jeffrey Tucker of The New Liturgical Movement puts the issue of new musical settings into perspective with regard to the copyright and taxation standards in place with ICEL. It is an essay well worth reading. The letter from CDWDS specifies that new musical settings are now needed.

Ever on the ball, Shawn Tribe and the New Liturgical Movement has provided the link to the "White Book" from the USCCB for the Ordo Missae as found in the Missale Romanum, editio typica tertia, including most of those texts used in every celebration of the Holy Mass. The NLM story is here . The NLM provides the link to the USCCB here . The entire White Book (PDF) is provided here . And yes, "pro multis" is translated "for many." Laus Deo!

Jeffrey Tucker has some fine commentary on the story in the Toronto Globe and Mail that was posted too by Aristotle A. Esguerra in an earlier post (see below). Mr. Tucker goes into a bit more detail in his commentary. It seems that the Vatican Choir is in excellent hands!

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Jeffrey Tucker presents a very lucid argument for returning plainsong now as the new Liturgical translations are being implemented . Read his essay and see if you agree. The Church in her wisdom accommodates this with the musical structure of the Roman Rite. It gives the parts that change the least to the priest. The parts that change a bit more but still not much are assigned to the people generally (the ordinary). The parts that are very difficult and change every week are assigned to the choir, precisely because people with a musical vocation love change and variety and can handle that from a technical point of view. So consider using the new Mass texts as a way to completely rethink the way music is used in the parts that generally belong to the people. By using plainsong, we make the transition easier, and also take a huge step to using the music that is most suitable to the Roman Rite. The full article is here .

Shawn Tribe has written a beautiful essay on the issue of kneeling while receiving Holy Communion on the tongue - the historical pre-Vatican II practice. It is well written and considered; I recommend it highly.

Jeffrey Tucker has part of an interview with a one of the monks from the Viennese monastery whose Gregorian Chant CD has hit the top of the chart. The interview is from the San Francisco Chronicle . It is easy to learn chant if you practice 3 and one half hours per day!

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