LOTH music website

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Is there a website that hosts music that matches the Breviary reading for today?
 
Not that I’m aware of.
Most of the songs are common to our ears, but what isn’t can be found on youtube. May @OraLabora has more info.
 
There are 3 websites where the Breviary can easily be accessed - iBreviary, divineoffice.org, and Universalis (divinumofficium.com has the old Roman Breviary).

Of these three, only divineoffice has music. However, unless you already have an account or buy an account, you can’t access their material - plus the hymn they use doesn’t usually match the one in the LOTH anyway.

OP, your best bet will be to pick the individual hymn you’ll be reciting at that particular hour, then go on Youtube and find the hymn on there.
 
I’m only really familiar with the Latin. You can hear most of them here:

http://liberhymnarius.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

They are taken from Liber Hymnarius, still published by Solesmes and unfortunately under copyright, so it’s hard to find on-line versions, but I did come up with this, that has most of them in Gregorian notation:

https://gregobase.selapa.net/source.php?id=15

The Mundelein Psalter might be of some use for English but you have to buy the book; it has simplified chant in Chant notation, and is very well presented.
 
Many people mention finding the hymn on youtube. But the Breviary does not mention the hymn title. Any suggestions for identifying the hymn?

Thanks.
 
Under the hymn, they usually give the name of the tune to which the lyrics are to be sung. They should also list the author of the lyrics. Type those two items into a YouTube search and you should be able to find the song.
 
You can also try typing in some of the lyrics. One line will do unless it’s something really generic like “Alleluia, alleluia.”
 
I have an app for my iPhone called Breviary Tunes. It has most of the tunes from the LOTH 4 vol set unless they are copy righted. I do not know if it is available for android.

For the tunes it does nothave, I used you tube; just search the first line of lyrics.

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Breviary Tunes is a great alternative to YouTube. But it lists tunes by title, not by calendar date. Unfortunately, I use Laudate, which does not identify the hymn title.

My ideal, pie-in-the-sky wishlist would be for an order to record their LOTH service for each day, similar to those webpages that show live video of perpetual adoration… 🙂
 
If you do Latin, the Latin-French diurnal antiphonary for the LOTH, “Les Heures Grégoriennes” can be bought with an optional CD that contains MP3s for all the music, arranged liturgically (i.e. by season, day, proper + common of saints, etc.). Not the entire hymn, but the first strophe of each hymn, each antiphon plus a verse or two of the psalm in the appropriate tone. An extremely useful resource.

It’s harder in the vernacular as there are so many possible choices and it’s a bit more “free form” in that at least in the French LOTH, for the seasons, multiple choices are given but not attributed to any particular hour.
 
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