Evangelia Cantata is a notated book of the Gospel readings for Sundays and major feasts of the year. The notated texts are in English and based on Gregorian formulas. These texts are provided to... More > facilitate the celebration of a fully sung Mass. Music is provided in this edition for all the Sundays and principal feasts of the liturgical year.
The notation used for this edition is that commonly called “Vatican Square-Note Notation.”
Concordat cum originali: Most Reverend Gregory M. Aymond
Chairman, USCCB Committee on Divine Worship
after review by Reverend Monsignor Richard B. Hilgarter
Executive Director, USCCB Secretariat of Divine Worship
Published with the approval of the Bishops Committee on the Liturgy,
United States Catholic Conference of Catholic Bishops< Less
Many generations of experience after the chant revival went into producing this 157-page book. The idea of the author, Joseph Robert Carroll, is to provide just what the singer needs to know to sing... More > the entire corpus of chant within the context of a parish. It also helps prepare a person to lead chant. The tutorial is so much more clear than any of the guides that were previously produced before this book made its appearance in 1957. It avoids arcane issues and gets right to the subject of how to sing and sing beautifully.< Less
Dom Daniel Saulnier is the masters of Gregorian chant at the Solesmes monastery in France, and this is his book of historical, musicological, and spiritual reflections on the science, art, and prayer... More > of the sung prayer of the Roman Rite of Catholic liturgy. His text incorporates the latest scholarship on this ancient tradition of music. This edition was translated by Edward Schaefer, published by Solesmes in 2003 and then again in 2010 by the Church Music Association of America.< Less
These historic volumes, one of the modern treasures of sacred music, are finally in print again, beginning with volumes 1 and 2, which cover the proper of season and the main ordinary chants for the... More > Church year, set to English with traditional Gregorian melodies and notation. They are useful for modern Catholic parishes and Anglican/Episcopal congregations that use propers of the Church year. They are set by G.H. Palmer and Francis Burgess, and are time tested through many decades of use.< Less
