Chabanel Responsorial Pslam Project

[Caesar]

Chabanel Responsorial Pslam Project

An interesting site that could be of great value for musical directors and choirs. The Chabanel Responsorial Pslam Project has the scores of all the Responsorial Psalms in Gregorian Chant for the entire Liturgical calendar. Perfect for Sunday Mass

 

[MusicMan]

This was an excellent find. Thank you for sharing it with us. I will not use its contents exclusively for the Responsorial Psalm. However, I am going to make my group use this Sunday’s setting as an experiment. If we really like it, then we’ll use it more often. If it’s just OK, we’ll use it to suppliment the settings in Gather that we normally use. Especially when the setting in Gather is either awful or non-existant.

 

[MusicMan]

I’m really quite surprised that no one else has commented here. We tried one of the settings for the Ordinary 19 last night. Mixed reviews. The choir members thought it was fine. One would like something more contemporary, another didn’t care, and another thought it was great as long as it wasn’t every Sunday. This was what I expected, and fits well with my plan for their use.

The one thing I didn’t expect, however, was that few people joined us on the refrain. I didn’t think the refrain was that long or that difficult to pick up. Few people did so. It seems that for this to be completely successful, we would either need to select a seasonal psalm (which sort of defeats the purpose of using this as a suppliment) or publish a worship guide that includes it.

I am left still pondering this site. It’s good … I just don’t quite know how useful it will be in my parish. If they published a booklet … well, it wouldn’t be a free resource then, would it.

Anyhow, thanks for posting this, and I encourage others to use it.

 

[pm1853]

I saw this site, and though the goal is noble (and the arrangements are good) I have one pressing concern…

Are the settings the ICEL translation? If so, would it not be required to get copyright permission to use the text? I don’t see permission from ICEL anywhere on their site or on the sheet music itself. Is it listed anywhere? If so…I’ll use these psalms as a supplement in a second. If not, I’m rather tentative. Its unfortunate that there are these laws…but they do exist and we must abide by them. I might be mistaken though since these aren’t being sold for profit. Anyone have a clue?

 

[MusicMan]

First of all, are the ICEL translations copyrighted? Secondly, since this is not for profit, I highly doubt that there is an issue of using the text and setting it to chant.

The psalm texts are pretty common and universal. I doubt they have a copyright to them. Wouldn’t they be considered public domain?

 

[pm1853]

First of all, are the ICEL translations copyrighted? Secondly, since this is not for profit, I highly doubt that there is an issue of using the text and setting it to chant.

The psalm texts are pretty common and universal. I doubt they have a copyright to them. Wouldn’t they be considered public domain?

The Lectionary and all texts are copyrighted by ICEL. I found my answer…sort of…

icelweb.org/copyright.htm

Scroll down to the ROYALTIES and then the sub-heading “Publications Not Subject to Royalties”. Category “C” concerns me since I can find no acknowledgement given to ICEL on any part of the website. Can anyone else find it?

 

[MusicMan]

I’m not sure this particular medium is actually addressed in their policies. It does not appear in either category. I’d say that until ICEL investigates the Cabanel Project themselves, we’re safe via a loophole.

 

[VAC]

I’m really quite surprised that no one else has commented here. We tried one of the settings for the Ordinary 19 last night. Mixed reviews. The choir members thought it was fine. One would like something more contemporary, another didn’t care, and another thought it was great as long as it wasn’t every Sunday. This was what I expected, and fits well with my plan for their use.

The one thing I didn’t expect, however, was that few people joined us on the refrain. I didn’t think the refrain was that long or that difficult to pick up. Few people did so. It seems that for this to be completely successful, we would either need to select a seasonal psalm (which sort of defeats the purpose of using this as a suppliment) or publish a worship guide that includes it.

I am left still pondering this site. It’s good … I just don’t quite know how useful it will be in my parish. If they published a booklet … well, it wouldn’t be a free resource then, would it.

Anyhow, thanks for posting this, and I encourage others to use it.

What settings for the psalms do you normally use?
We use OCP’s “respond and acclaim” which I didn’t think could be considered contemporary.
The site looks like a good resource.I bookmarked it for the times I don’t like the options I have in my books. Why are there 3 different arrangements for the refrain??