Some selected chants
Here we have a short repertory including some well known chants. Except
for the sequences, offertory and the Father, they are not used in the
liturgy
of the Mass, but in the Vespers Office, or in some of the other
canonical
Hours the religious and the priests pray along the day.
- Sequence Victimæ
paschali from
Easter Sunday mass (1m36.6s - 1510 kb) (info
about MP3)
- Sequence Veni
Sancte
Spiritus
from Pentecost mass (2m29.7s - 2341 kb)
- Sequence Lauda, Sion,
from
Corpus Christi
mass (5m49.8s - 2052 kb)
- Offertory Ave,
Maria... et benedictus
(2m03.4s - 1933 kb)
- Psalm 112, Laudate
pueri,
with
antiphon a solis ortu (2m12.5s - 778 kb)
- Iesu dulcis memoria
(1m40.0s - 685
kb) (score
thanks to S. Donatiello, from Italy)
- Misericordias Domini
(1m32.3s -
718 kb)
- Alleluia, psallite
(1m13.3s - 571 kb)
- hymn Veni, creator
(2m30.1s -
1168 kb)
- hymn Christe Redemptor
(3m00.9s
- 1237 kb)
- antiphon Hodie
Christus Natus
est (56.4s - 386 kb)
- responsory Verbum
caro
factum est
(1m55.3s - 789 kb)
- Ecce nomen Domini
Emmanuel
(58.8s -
458 kb)
- Pater noster (A) (56.0s
-
437 kb)
- Ave, Maria (53.8s - 419 kb)
- Rorate Cæli
(4m17.8s
- 1763 kb)
- Vexilla Regis (3m22.7s -
3168 kb)
- Alma Redemptoris
Mater
(59.5s
- 464 kb)
- Ave Regina
Cælorum
(45.9s -
358 kb)
- Regina Cæli (34.2s
-
267 kb)
- Salve Regina (1m33.7s -
729
kb)
- Panis angelicus I
(1m15.5s - 1182 kb)
- Adoro te devote
(3m33.0s - 1457 kb)
- Tantum ergo I (1m10.9s -
485
kb)
- Tantum ergo II (1m06.1s
-
388 kb) (info
about MP3)
- Tantum ergo III (1m09.9s
-
410 kb)
- Tantum ergo VII (1m09.6
-
476 kb)
- Litany of the Saints (6m11.4s -
5805kb)
- Below we have some examples of the Magnificat, the jubilous
canticle of
Mary (Lk 1.46-55) when she received the incarnation's message; these
recordings,
taken at Vespers, are accompanied by antiphons (at beginning and end)
and
have an interlude by the organ, so allowing time to ready the altar and
incense the people for the solemn benediction ending these Vespers:
- Magnificat - 1D
solemn
(6m58.3s - 2860
kb)(antiphon Exsultet omnium turba fidelium - Saint Benedict's
commemoration)
- Magnificat
- 8G2 solemn (5m33.3s - 4558 kb)(from second Assumption vespers, see
below)
- Solemnity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary: the Second
Vespers.
- In occasions of thaksgiving the Te Deum hymn is used; it's more
known
versions
are the Simple and the Solemn, but there's also a third version, more
roman
style, which follows:
- Te
Deum
(Roman)
(5m44.4s - 2679 kb).
- Te Deum
(simple)
(recording not yet available).
- Te Deum
(solemn)
(recording not yet available).
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update: 6/21/2005 (former version 5/5/2005)
(score
thanks to S. Donatiello, from Italy)
