Ordinary Form "sung" Mass?

[savedbychrist]

One of the major differences between the NOM and the TLM is that many parts which were to be said in a low voicr, are now to be read aloud, including the Secreta, Canon and Embolismus. Are there chants composed for them, making it possible for a fully “sung” NOM? Has anyone heard these chants? (Parts newly added to the NOM without at least the prototype from the TLM, like the new mysterium fidei, do not count.)

 

[phil19034]

One of the major differences between the NOM and the TLM is that many parts which were to be said in a low voicr, are now to be read aloud, including the Secreta, Canon and Embolismus. Are there chants composed for them, making it possible for a fully “sung” NOM? Has anyone heard these chants? (Parts newly added to the NOM without at least the prototype from the TLM, like the new mysterium fidei, do not count.)

Yes. When I was a kid in the 80s & early 90s, Father chanted the entire Mass and the parts the laity said (including the Our Father) were chanted or sung.

 

[OraLabora]

Yes the whole thing may be sung, and yes there is a noted altar version of the OF Roman Missal. The abbey I’m oblate of does indeed sing the whole thing. The Propers and Ordinary are in Latin (Greek Kyrie) Gregorian chant according to the Graduale Romanum, and everything else is chanted including the preface and all of the eucharistic prayer. All the responses are sung as well.

Our sister abbey of Benedictine nuns just west of Montreal also sing the whole thing (well, rather the chaplain does for the parts proper to the priest), except that they do everything in Latin except readings and the intercessions. The nuns themselves chant the Propers and Ordinary.

Until the lockdown, I heard this every Sunday and Wednesday (the day I volunteer at the library). On ordinary weekdays, a simpler melody is used, mostly recto-tono, but on Sundays, feasts and solemnities a more ornate melody is used.

It is very beautiful as it is chanted expertly; the monks at our abbey (of the Solesmes Congregation) are the experts in Gregorian chant in Canada.

 

[SeekSalvation]

I attended a Church in Salem Oregon just a few weeks ago, St Joseph’s, where both the TLM and NOM are completely sung.

 

[twf]

My local pastor regularly chants the entire Eucharistic Prayer (in English). It adds a certain solemnity to the holy sacrifice.

 

[Glennon_P]

My former pastor sang (chanted?) every Pauline Mass beginning with the new translation in Advent 2011.

 

[dochawk]

One of the major differences between the NOM and the TLM is that many parts which were to be said in a low voicr, are now to be read aloud,

Some of that is correcting errors accumulated over the centuries, in which parts were displaced or changed.

Are there chants composed for them, making it possible for a fully “sung” NOM?

My byzantine priest has, more than once, it seems, unwittingly dropped into ruthenium plain chant more than once while covering RC Masses :crazy_face:

He didn’t find out until the extremely positive reaction afterwards . . .

 

[ralfyman]

I don’t know if this serves as an example:

 

[porthos11]

One of the major differences between the NOM and the TLM is that many parts which were to be said in a low voicr, are now to be read aloud, including the Secreta, Canon and Embolismus. Are there chants composed for them, making it possible for a fully “sung” NOM? Has anyone heard these chants? (Parts newly added to the NOM without at least the prototype from the TLM, like the new mysterium fidei, do not count.)

Absolutely. Even the intial Sign of the Cross, to the Confiteor (very rarely used, but there is a tone), to the readings (again, very rare, but there are standard tones for Lessons, Epistles, and Gospels), the Eucharistic Prayer, the Libera nos, and the final blessing.

 

[RoseScented]

My pastor chants the entire ordinary form mass including the gospel (and we along with him, the only exception is when we don’t have a deacon for the readings other than the gospel and the homily) for Easter and Christmas. After that we don’t chant everything, but I’d say there are times we chant a good 80% of the mass regularly.

 

[twf]

Gospels

I’ve certainly been to several OF Masses where the Gospel was chanted by the deacon. I believe I’ve only been to maybe one or two OF Masses where the OT and Epistle readings were also chanted… Gospel happens from time to time at more solemn Masses, the other readings much more rarely.

 

[OraLabora]

Our abbey chants all three readings (2 on weekdays). There’s no responsorial psalm as the Gradual is sung instead.