Music for Good Friday

[ItalianBoy1993]

Does anybody know where I can find the music for “The Reproaches” to the Gregorian Chant melody? I do, however, need modern music notation, and would prefer the words be in english. Thank you!

 

[benedictgal]

Does anybody know where I can find the music for “The Reproaches” to the Gregorian Chant melody? I do, however, need modern music notation, and would prefer the words be in english. Thank you!

They might be in the Office. I am looking for the accompanyment to O Sun of Justice and a priest friend of mine told me that the tune might be in the Office. You might also want to contact EWTN directly since they have a lot of traditional music and they are always willing to lend a helping hand. PM me and I’ll give you their number.

If, for some reason you can’t find the reproaches, you might consider “What Wondrous Love Is This” or “At the Name of Jesus” (from the red Worship III hymnal) for the veneration of the Cross. And for Communion, “Sing My Tongue the Savior’s Triumph” works really well.

 

[porthos11]

That would be in the Sacramentary. Ask your priest if you can photocopy the pertinent sections. The Catholic Book Publishing Sacramentary (most commonly used) has the reproaches in modern notation.

We typically sing “Crux Fidelis” during the Veneration portion of the celebration. Due to the relatively small number of people (we serve at a smaller shrine), we do not have enough time to sing the full Reproaches and Crux Fidelis.

 

[NPC]

The chants you’re looking for are in the ‘Liber Usualis (1961)’ - if your church doesn’t have a copy of it, you can download it for free at www.musicasacra.com/2007/07/17/liber-usualis-online/ It’s a very big document, but it’s well worth having as it contains all the chants you’ll need for different feast days… There are over 2,000 pages I think, but the Veneration of the Cross is from pages 881-891 - that’s by the application’s reckoning, not by the Liber Usualis itself! Unfortunately it’s not in modern notation, but the tone used is easy enough and is repeated quite a lot - getting one’s tongue around the words will probably be the hardest part!

 

[Chatter163]

But the OP asked for English and modern notation, which is why the Sacramentary (the Roman Missal in this country) is what is needed.

 

[NPC]

But the OP asked for English and modern notation, which is why the Sacramentary (the Roman Missal in this country) is what is needed.

So he did - unfortunately, English translations of the Latin frequently don’t work very well when they’re simply placed on the Gregorian Tone because the accents in Latin and the English will fall in different places… One option would be just to take a simple Gregorian Psalm tone (some only have three or four notes) and use the English with that. Also, if you get a version with modern notation, I would advise that you don’t confine yourself strictly to the given notation; the original chant has pulses and a natural flow which is hard to convey using modern notation.

 

[porthos11]

So he did - unfortunately, English translations of the Latin frequently don’t work very well when they’re simply placed on the Gregorian Tone because the accents in Latin and the English will fall in different places… One option would be just to take a simple Gregorian Psalm tone (some only have three or four notes) and use the English with that. Also, if you get a version with modern notation, I would advise that you don’t confine yourself strictly to the given notation; the original chant has pulses and a natural flow which is hard to convey using modern notation.

It’s not a problem because the Sacramentary uses different Gregorian tones, with the bends properly adapted to the English accents. The Sacramentary tones work fine for the English.