Credo iii melody change, why?

[123Strontium]

Why does the Credo which we sing in Latin, change melodies? Is it a seasonal reason?

 

[YoungTradCath]

There are six settings of the Credo in the Graduale Romanum and Liber Usualis.

 

[ProVobis]

In our parish the Credo III melody was recently changed in two places:

*Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine: ET HOMO FACTUS EST. Crucifixus etiam pro nobis; sub Pontio Pilato passus, et sepultus est. *

and

Et vitam venturi saeculi. Amen.

Has anyone else had this change?

 

[OraLabora]

In our parish the Credo III melody was recently changed in two places:

*Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine: ET HOMO FACTUS EST. Crucifixus etiam pro nobis; sub Pontio Pilato passus, et sepultus est. *

and

Et vitam venturi saeculi. Amen.

Has anyone else had this change?

News to me. When we use Credo III at the abbey, which we did a few times over the Christmas season and on the Gaudete Sunday in Advent, we took it straight out of the Graduale Romanum. Can anybody publish an image of the new melody? I assume it’s in modern notation? Maybe that’s the issue, a correction of the modern notation. We sing it in Gregorian notation and to my knowledge that hasn’t changed.

It’s also, incidentally, a neo-Gregorian chant and not really Gregorian, as it dates from the 17th century. So it’s not like someone dug up some ancient manuscript that required a correction of the melody…

 

[MarkThompson]

Why does the Credo which we sing in Latin, change melodies? Is it a seasonal reason?

If you are asking why sing the Credo to different melodies, the answer is for variety’s sake. Often such changes would indeed be made to correspond with the (liturgical) seasons. If you mean that some specific change was made within the melody of Credo III, then that would be a question for the pastor or music director at your parish. Certainly nothing of the sort has been directed from on high. (The only realistic possibility that occurs to me is that you had been singing it wrong in one place, and they are now correcting it at your church.)