Sheet Music, Chant Books, Hymns
Below you will find vast resources for singing chant in English and Latin. Many people are involved in expanding this page as much as possible, in an effort to build an infrastructure of the musical commons for the Catholic faith.
- English Hymns in the Commons.
- Mass Ordinary settings (Greek/Latin and English)
- The Complete Communios for PDF download.
- The Parish Book of Chant in PDF or see information page with expanded chant settings
- Additional chants specially formatted by Richard Rice:
The CMAA is very pleased to announce that the full communion antiphons with Psalms are now available in print, in a 315-page book, beautifully bound and easy to use: Communio: Communion Antiphons with Psalm Verses, as prepared by Richard Rice in cooperation with the Church Music Association of America.
You can purchase it right now. Buy multiple copies for everyone in your schola to use.
These specially prepared communion antiphons from the Graduale Romanum include the Psalm verses (according to the Nova Vulgata) set to the corresponding tones, as described in the rubrics for singing the Mass.
These antiphons and Psalms represent the ideal for all Catholic parishes, as recommended from the earliest rubrics to the General Instruction, and also fill a gap in the existing chant books. The CMAA, then, is very pleased to offer these full versions of the Communion antiphons, including the full Psalm verses, as a beautiful one-volume work and as free and quick downloads chant by chant. They are listed in alphabetical order. The sincere hope here is that more parishes will use them as a means of singing what the Church asks us to sing, and thereby assist in maintaining the most beautiful and solemn setting for the reception of the Holy Eucharist.
Special thanks to Richard Rice, director of the Canticum Novum Schola of Greater Washington, DC, who prepared these editions. Of this project, Paul F. Ford (Flowing Waters) writes: “Hats in the air! And deep gratitude! What a useful project.” Another choirmaster writes: “This is a marvelous resource. The free downloads have already saved me time and energy… having everything in ONE volume will be even better! My little schola is less likely to lose the books than the printed sheets. I can’t wait for it to arrive!” Still another says: “I just ordered my copy. No more scrambling before Mass to download a replacement of the lost sheet!”
Communio Downloads
- Index to Communion Antiphons (1970 Missal)
- Index to Communion Antiphons (1962 Missal)
- Gloria Patri Tones
ENGLISH CHANT BOOKS
- A Dictionary of the Psalter (Britt, 1928)
- American Gradual (English in Modern notes)
- Anglican Use Gradual
- Choral Introits and Graduals (Willan, 1957)
- Communio with English Verses (Richard Rice)
- English Chant Propers (Fr. Columba Kelly)
- English Propers (Abrogast, 1964)
- English Propers (Fr. Samuel Weber)
- Hymns of the Breviary and Missal (Britt, 1922)
- Index of the 1974 Graduale
- Introits of the Sarum Rite (Palmer)
- Ordinary Chants (Latin, English)
- Pange Lingua, Old Hymns with English Translations, Intro. by Adrian Fortescu (1916)
- Plainchant Gradual Vol 1&2 (Burgess/Palmer)
- Plainchant Gradual Vol 3&4 (Burgess/Palmer)
- Psalm Tone Sheet
- Salisbury Antiphoner (Palmer)
- Simple Choral Gradual (Ord form), Rice
LATIN CHANT BOOKS
- A Dictionary of the Psalter (Britt, 1928)
- Anthologia Quinta Vocalis (1927)
- Antiphonale (1912)
- Antiphonarium (1923)
- Chants Abreges (1926), Graduals and Alleluias
- Chants of the Church (1954), Modern Notes
- Chants of the Church (Latin/English 1953)
- Dominican Liturgical Books
- Graduale Romanum 1908
- Graduale Romanum 1961 (with nav links)
- Graduale Romanum, Ratisbon (1871)
- Gregorian Missal (Latin/English)
- Index of the 1974 Graduale
- Introits for Treble Choir (Richard Rice)
- Kyriale (Solesmes edition)
- Kyriale (Vatican Edition)
- Kyriale Brevis
- Laudes Festivae (1940, Roman martyrology for Christmas (better known as the Christmas proclamation), and the sung Gospel for Mass on solemn feast days, the sung lessons of Triduum vigils (better known as Tenebrae).
- Liber Brevior (1954)
- Liber Usualis (1961)
- Mass and Vespers (1957)
- Music of the Sarum Rite (website in progress)
- Offertoriale with Offertory Verses (1935)
- Offertory Verses (printable booklet)
- Officium Majoris Hebdomadæ Et Octavæ Paschæ (Sung Liturgy of Holy Week) (1923)
- Ordinary Chants (Latin, English)
- Ordo Processionum (Franciscan 1925)
- Parish Book of Chant (CMAA)
- Processionarium (Dominican 1913)
- Propers of the Church year set to tones (1962 Missal)
- Propers of the Mass by Fr. Rossini
- Proprium de Tempore (Propers)
- Psalm Tone Sheet
- Secunda Anthologia Vocalis (Trios, Ravanello, 1907)
- Simplified Graduale, Major Propers (R. Rice)
- St. Lalande Library of Rare Books
- Versus Psalmorum et Canticorum
- Vesperale Romanum (1913)
