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We are so pleased to offer Music Third Year, by Justine Ward, as a free download and also in print. This completes the collection of classic Ward editions, the series based on the method that trained several generations of singers based on the Solesmes approach to chant. Justine Ward turned this into the foundation of a complete music education.

Music Third Year explores more complicated scales and introduces polyphonic singing with excerpts from the masters.

See the CMAA Shop for all titles in this series.

The English translation of the Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis has been revised. The initial translation, critiqued at Fr. Zuhlsdorf’s blog, said in paragraph 62 that international liturgies “could be” in Latin. The revised translation: “it is fitting that such liturgies be celebrated in Latin” – a revision that comes closer to reflecting the Latin text.

Here is the 1970 Missal edition of the Exsultet, prepared by Richard Rice.

Gregorian Chant for Church and School, by Sister Mary Antonine Goodchild.

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What a wonderful find this is: an ideal textbook on chant for junior high, high school, or really any age. It is mercifully free of verbiage or exaggerated detail. It is short and super clear on all aspects of learning to chant (notes, rhythm, Latin, style), and it contains a vast amount of the basic repertoire, in neumes and with English translations. It even has study questions!

Many of us have wish that such a book would be written. It took Fr. Samuel Weber to point out that such a book already exists, and now it is in print again. As the title says, it is the perfect text for Church and school. It came out in 1944 but it isn’t in the slightest bit dated. This is priced for mass distribution.

We are pleased to make available a Kyriale extract from the Graduale, with helpful navigation links. The other edition linked on this site is also excellent but it lacks the Solesmes-style rhythmic markings. Thus does this pdf edition fill a gap in our online resources.

The book contains all the Mass settings plus Psalm tones for readings and the Gloria Patri, plus chants for Corpus Christi, fully 160 pages in a format that is far easy to manage that the full Graduale. It is the true “people’s songbook” for the Roman Rite. You can easily copy images using Adobe reader. The scan is 300 dpi.

In addition, the Kyriale is available in both softcover ($12) and hardcover ($25) here.