Okay, so the Ruthenian Pew Book has been nicknamed “The Teal Terror” for a reason… It is incredibly hard to follow, even if you know what you’re doing.
Some parishes have a simpler book that contains just the basics, with only a small selection of music,
The two were priced the same for the specific purpose of provoking parishes into buying the green with all the cantor stuff. Not surpassingly, it was written by the cantor’s institute.
It has, iirc, all eight tone settings for each and every pieces, saved for the Lord’s Prayer, for which it has full music for ten . . .
At the end of each piece, it tells you the page to which you should jump. Err, rather, it lists a page, which Amy or may not be right. For the first few weeks, I flipped back and wrote the correct page for the next person.
It is a book which only someone who actually reads music yet can’t follow a cantor in plainchant could appreciate.
It
does have all the movables, though (but not the reading, iirc).
By the time we switched, I was practically always on the altar and had it down, so I’ve never really looked at it.
For understanding the liturgy, the prior red book was much better, even with it’s quirks such as “proceeds from the Father [and the Son]” in the creed, or page 10A taped in with he Second Antiphon . . .
