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St Basil's Hymnal 1918
 More Detail 		St Basil's Hymnal 1918 By The Basilian Fathers
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The St Basil Hymnal started in the 1880s and kept being revised and printed over the next seventy or so years. It comes from... More > Canada but was also in use in the United States. This particular revision is one of the early ones with a clearer layout. The book comes from the Internet Archive, but two pages were badly scanned and have been reconstructed. The whole lot has been straightened out. < Less
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Treasury of Catholic Song
 More Detail 		Treasury of Catholic Song By Sidney Hurlbut
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A little-known collection of hymns drawing on a wide variety of sources including the Westminster Hymnal and the Arundel... More > Hymnal. Each hymn is presented in four part harmony and well engraved - the author was a professional engraver as well as Parish Priest. The scans come from the Internet Archive and have been tidied up and vectorised for printing. I've put a small fee on the download as it is a large file (76Mb) and Lulu deserves something for hosting it. < Less
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The Catholic's Latin Instructor
 More Detail 		The Catholic's Latin Instructor By Edward Caswall
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This book aims to give enough Latin to understand the principal Church Offices and Devotions. The first part covers the... More > Latin useful to choir members, altar servers and for anyone attending Mass and Benediction. The second part goes into a bit more depth to bring the student to a level where he can translate Latin from the Mass and Office with the aid of the Little Dictionary in the back of the book. A Short Latin Grammar is included.
The author is a renowned translator and poet, most famous for his hymns including Jesus the Very Thought of Thee, When Morning Gilds the Skies, Glory Be to Jesus, See Amid the Winter Snow and many others. In this book, however, the translations are strictly word-for-word literal.
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Arundel Hymns
 More Detail 		Arundel Hymns By Charles Gatty, Henry Duke of Norfolk
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One of the early hymnbooks of the Catholic Revival in England. Cardinal Newman, Fr Edward Caswall, Fr Frederick Faber, Fr... More > John O'Connor all have hymns in here. Its not so much a pew book as a compendium of all treasures of Catholic poetry in English and Latin. Lots of tunes for Tantum Ergo and O Salutaris too. < Less
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Old Westminster Hymnal
 More Detail 		Old Westminster Hymnal By Richard Terry
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The Westminster Hymnal of 1912 was the culmination of years of work in cultivating vernacular hymnody and congregational... More > music. The music proper to liturgical worship is Gregorian Chant, and so no Catholic hymnbook would be complete without a selection of chant. Singing hymns in English is more recent and R R Terry did great work in wedding metrical translations to tunes. Each piece is presented in SATB with alternative tunes for many pieces. The introduction alone with its discussion of the divergence of tunes from the original compositions is well worth a read.

Now with extra indices added, bringing it up to a later edition! Refer to hymns by Subject, Author or Composer or by the original first line of translated hymns. Same hymns, easier to navigate.

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A New Book of Old Hymns
 More Detail 		A New Book of Old Hymns By Veronica Brandt
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A collection of hymns focusing on chant, including a litany, rounds, antiphons, carols, for all seasons of the Church's... More > year, plus Ordinaries of the Mass, Benediction and some English hymns. Chant is newly typeset, not photocopied. English translations for each Latin hymn. Indexed for easy reference. < Less
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The Draft Hymnal
 More Detail 		The Draft Hymnal By Veronica Brandt
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Here is a draft of a hymnal intended for my local parish. For all those who have expressed an interest, here is a way to get... More > a copy. Buy a few and have a sing-a-long to start each day. This book is mostly just the words. No Catholic hymnbook is complete without Gregorian chant and here you'll find Rorate Caeli, Veni Creator, the simple Te Deum and a few more as well as a very comprehensive selection from the Kyriale. Also about three litanies in Latin with chant and English words plus three more litanies just in English. Two novena prayers plus the indulgenced prayers to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This is a big book and to make it easier to navigate the right hand page edge is marked with 'thumbs' or tabs. Plus an index in the back. The books starts off with the Order of the Mass in Latin and English - Extraordinary Form. < Less
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A New Book of Old Hymns large print
 More Detail 		A New Book of Old Hymns large print By Veronica Brandt
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A collection of hymns in Latin and English. Rounds, polyphony, sequences and lots of gregorian chant hymns and antiphons.... More > Arranged around the Church's liturgical year. This is the same as the smaller edition magnified by 140% (roughly). < Less
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Lord of the World
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An Apocalyptic science fiction written early last century. A Catholic priest finds himself pitted against the anti-Christ... More > armed with prayer, penance and our Lord Jesus Christ. < Less
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Lenten Kyriale
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The gregorian chant for Masses in Lent (masses 17 & 18, credo 4) plus a selection of hymns and antiphons. Everything is... More > latin (apart from the Kyrie) with english translation. The preview is the same as the content. < Less
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About Veronica Brandt

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Veronica is the member of the Brandt Family with the publishing bug. She has been publishing newsletters and booklets from an early age. First attempts were using an Apple ][e, dot matrix printer and carefully tearing the pages to assemble a photocopy ready proof for her father to copy at work. Tearing is better than scissors as the joins are less visible when photocopied.
Many years have passed since then and now the Brandt Books are prepared with cutting edge open source software, especially lualatex, memoir, gregorio, imagemagick, the gimp and potrace to name a few.
There is a special focus on the musical heritage of the Catholic Church.

 

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