LIBER USUALIS Vulgate Latin Liturgy Gregorian Chant 780

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Over 11,000 positive feedbacks so bid with total confidence! Check out my other items ! Be sure to add me to your favorites list ! Liber Usualis : The Liber Usualis ("The Usual Book") is the most complete book of chant you can buy for the Tridentine rites. The book contains all of the chant for every feast of the year as well as all special services such as burials, weddings, blessing of Holy Oils, ordinations and benediction. The volume also contains the common chants for the Divine Office and the ordinary chants for the Mass. Although the traditional music books of the Church (the Graduale Romanum, the Kyriale, the Antiphonarium, etc.) were available separately, it is the Liber Usualis that puts under one cover virtually everything that a Gregorian choir would need in order to chant the Divine Office, including the Holy Mass. The Ordinary Chants of the Mass are given with the eighteen standard Gregorian Mass settings and the Common Tones of the Mass.Following are the Ordinary Chants of the Office, with their common tones. For Sundays, the hours of Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, and Compline are given, together with Lauds for Feasts. Since the traditional Breviarium Romanum (Breviary for the Divine Office) is now scare, the Liber Usualis could substantially stand in for private recitation of the Divine Office.The majority of the Liber Usualis is taken up with the Proper of the Time, that is, the chants for the temporal cycle of the year, together with the Common and Proper of the Saints and Votive Masses. The complete Requiem and Exsequial services are also provided. At the end of book are highly useful chants for special occasions, such as Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.Concluding the whole is an Alphabetical Table of Introits, Graduals, Alleluia Verses, Tracts, Offertories, Communions, Antiphons, Hymns, Psalms, Canticles, and Responsories, followed by an Alphabetical Index of Feasts.This edition of the Liber Usualis contains the traditional Roman Rite as it existed in 1960. This is the Pre-Vatican II Liber Usualis ("Usual Book") exquisitely beautiful with all the Roman Rite Chant and texts Sadly, following Vatican II, Gregorian Chant virtually disappeared from the Church's liturgical life . So is truly cause to rejoice and to bid early & high: a truly RARE find * NOT a reprint * VERY GOOD CONDITION (binding has been strengthened) No 780 LIBER USUALIS MISSAE ET OFFICII EDITED BY THE BENEDICTINES OF SOLESMES ENTIRELY IN LATIN black cloth hardbound, approx 5" x 7.5", approx 1000 red-edged pages, near MINT condition Rome etc: Desclee, 1960 The scans show just a small sample of the texts and music provided in this beautifully preserved book. Truly a "MUST HAVE" for every person interested in Gregorian Chant or liturgical music, a nd a lovely addition to any liturgical music collection! NOTE: This is a heavy, beautifully made liturgical book. High bidder will make the following CONTRIBUTION toward the even greater cost of shipping (I pay the rest!):$8 UK s & h, $15 rest of Europe, $25 USA, Canada and elsew overseas PAYMENT DUE WITHIN THREE DAYS OF AUCTION CLOSE AND PLEASE NOTE THAT AS THIS IS A LOVINGLY USED LITURGICAL BOOK, AND I HAVE DESCRIBED IT AS ACCURATELY AND FULLY AS POSSIBLE, ALL SALES ARE FINAL Payment: I accept payment by paypal, USPS DOMESTIC (not international) money orders and (by arrangement) personal checks. Please see my other auctions for a range of interesting, unusual and useful church related items - and I will be adding an enormous amount of the next few weeks read more

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