Offertory

Within these pages you will find the complete Offertory Chant Propers in 3 Parts in a convenient and reliable choir book intended primarily for the parish choir or schola who prefers a cappella chant-based choral polyphony as an accompaniment to the Offertory at mass. Using the Revised Grail Psalm texts and a hybrid mix of unmetered chant and modern notation Offertory offers a well-ordered program of choral polyphony emphasizing speech rhythm, the rhythm of prayer, arising from the unmetrical character of the words to be chanted. Included are the complete Sundays and Feasts of the church. It is hoped, then, that this volume fulfills the requirements, both artistic and liturgical, for the working through music of the glorification of the Offertory of the Mass.