Asperges Me Prayer Chant Notation

[MarkThompson]

Looks pretty good. Four remaining comments:

1. You are missing a quilisma on the word “et” of “et super nivem” in the Asperges.
2. I still find the separation of syllables on “ista” in the Vidi Aquam very hard to make out. Maybe if you put a hyphen in and made it “i-sta” that would at least give a clue that the singer is supposed to change syllables.
3. All in all, it could stand much closer fine-tuning with respect to placement of text syllables under the neumes. For instance, look at “dicent” in the next line. Is there any reason for “di-” to start so far to the left? Or two lines down, couldn’t the “-am in” of “quoniam in saeculum” stand to be moved half an en’s width or so to the left? And so on and so on. Look how far to the left the first syllable (Mi-) of the psalm verse in the Asperges comes in. Yes, I’m being picky, but if you’d like my opinion on what it would take to make this look professionally typeset, well, there you go.
4. You should put the V/ sign before the Amen in the prayer at the end of both sides.

Hope that helps –

 

[myriad1]

Thanks for looking at the pdf again for mistakes, Mark.

OK, I have made the corrections and gone over all of the syllables under the notes and adjusted their spacing so that they are directly under the notes where they are supposed to be. For reference, I used Musica Sacra’s downloadable pdf called chantsofchurch.pdf. Their pdf also includes the English translation under the notation. For now, I am just going to stick to Latin though.

Musica Sacra’s version has a few notation differences and I amended mine to match theirs most notably their placement of hyphens.

Here is the latest draft for everyone’s review. If it looks pretty good, feel free to download it if you wish.

myriadcreativeconcepts.com/Latin-Asperges-Me-draft-5.pdf

Mark, how does it look to you? Pretty close?

 

[myriad1]

To close this thread to completion, i would like to thank you all for your (name removed by moderator)ut regarding the design of this card. It is now finished. The last draft as noted earlier in the comments section is the draft that is the final version.

Best wishes to everyone here and thanks for your (name removed by moderator)ut.