So far I've got Prime and Compline recorded. Jonathan KK has a few more recorded here: liberreader.wordpress.com/category/gregorian-chant/the-little-office/ But the more recordings the better - I will work on this.
I think 🤔 you should make a official app where you do all of this (Little Office) organized for a fee (I know I’d gladly pay) I’m not sure if you’ve seen the app called Square Note but it has music and does a karaoke style where you have to try your best to keep up. I, being totally without experience with reading music would pay to have a app where it’s not just some chant or hymns but organized like you already have on RU-vid. Just a thought! Love this station regardless and please do not delete this! Your work is amazing! I am going to dedicate my rosary to you and your family tomorrow. Bless you!
Thank you for the rosary! I have used Square Notes in the past. Lately I've been using another one called Chant Tools which is also available online: bbloomf.github.io/jgabc/propers.html As it is open source, it's possible that this could be adapted for the Little Office. It would be pretty repetitive for the psalms, but I guess if it's a computer taking care of it, then you would be free to skip.
I'm puzzled about what the wrong compline could be. There are a few different antiphons to choose from for the Nunc Dimittis. It's all good prayer anyway :)
@@VeronicaBrandt Perhaps it’s a difference in melody as it’s still fairly new to me, but I believe it might be different verses, maybe not from the Little Office of Mary (which I was elated to find when I searched for the Little Office of Mary specifically tonight. I have been listening in a group which does both the rosary in Latin and Compline. I will need to compare. You have a wonderful voice!
How great! I did St. de Montfort’s consecration to Mary on the Feast of the Annunciation a few weeks ago and had gotten used to spending a good bit of time in prayer every night. Not wanting to waste the habit I had formed I thought it appropriate to take up the Little Office Compline (I’ll probably ad Vespers soon and do them together). Now that I’ve gotten used to the English I move on to learning to chant it. I learned the Ave Regina Caelorum and came across your article on Corpus Cristi Watershed for the Memento Rarum Conditor, and then the whole Compline! Thank you! As an aside, have you ever heard of there being a chant for the Little Crown?
I haven't heard about the Little Crown before. Looking it up, it looks like there should be a Latin version. You could check gregobase.selapa.net for any existing chant. I'll keep an eye out.
Either the chant word is so small (I saw you in an online event recently :) ), or it's Divine Providence that brought me to this video -- or both! I finally got around to trying to apply the chant for Compline in the LOBVM last night, and the flipping between different pages was racking my little brain a bit. I couldn't help but feel like I was overlooking some parts as the format was different from other versions of Compline that I've chanted before. Not to mention, I have meager knowledge on the accents of Latin words, so not having them marked was a little challenging. All in all, still learning here. Your resource is reassuring for all of the above, and I was delighted to find the Solesmes markings in your typesetting as well! Exactly what I was looking for! Quick question: Is the psalm tone you used for the Psalms at Compline from a particular publication of the LOBVM? I haven't had the chance yet to hop around your site enough to see if you had mentioned that already.
Thanks Albertus - someone in the udemy course asked for a video on how to read the notes so I'm thinking about how to describe it. Just singing the music seems like something of a start.
I'm the same I can't read music notes but love to chant the office in my own style but quite monastic. The hymn 'memento rerum conditor' I chant in the same tune the Carthusian monks have in the hymn of their night office.
I get lost after page 10 - maybe you could do this: Do a compline for regular time, compline for Easter, compline for Advent - make them all separate. LOL. Anyway, so goodnight. I did up to page 10!!
Well done getting to Page 10! Looking at the booklet, that's definitely the lion's share of the hour! Separate recordings sound like a good idea - it's that sort of complexity that made me start arranging all the videos into sections over at Udemy. I'm almost up to 7 hours of videos in the course now :) Each time I make new recordings, I generally make some free on RU-vid, and some just for the Udemy students. I'll see if I can encourage some helpers here to make some more recordings.
@@VeronicaBrandt Sounds good. I will look at the booklet. I had my own Little Office and now it has disappeared. Ugh, kids or something - I even prayed to find it - oh, well Mary will have it show up. I thank you for the RU-vid videos. We also go to Latin Mass and they do the regular Office up there in evenings and Vespers _ but I usually don't get up there for the Vespers - I have been there for Compline a couple of times - but today I just wanted to get back home! I don't live nearby the church!
Have you seen John Shaw's videos? He has this one which races through the basics of reading the notation: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pyPJz3-tX-w.html
It's all in the Udemy course - here's a link with a coupon to give you (and anyone else) the course for free for the next 3 days (HOLY-M-T-W) www.udemy.com/course/sing-officium-parvum-bmv/?couponCode=HOLY-M-T-W
I've seen a pdf of the Carmelite Little Office and it's very similar to this one. Here's a comparison table: www.gregorianbooks.com/gregorian/www/www.kellerbook.com/PARVUM~5.HTM
Thanks for pointing that out - I hadn't realised that I hadn't recorded all the Marian Antiphons in there. Here's Regina Caeli: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R7oFFPY5FJI.html - that's for Easter; and here's Ave Regina Caelorum which we're singing now during Lent: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mhlQN1o68gE.html Here's Alma for Advent and Christmas: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-td9tdJKNS8c.html And I don't seem to have recorded a Salve Regina! But there are some wonderful recordings out there.
@@VeronicaBrandt Thank you I'll add those to my watch list. I know how to sing Salve Regina - the others I am still learning - so thank you. Are you possibly a third order member (of an order) or just love to do the songs/hymns? :)
@@juliawoods-larsen2088 Thanks - I hope they help - they weren't consciously designed to help teach, but they're a start. I'm not in a third order, but I am an auxiliary member of the Legion of Mary. I lead the choir at my local Latin Mass and type up hymnbooks. There was a third order Benedictine involved in singing Compline after Mass on Thursday nights - there was a plan to encourage more people to join up but it didn't eventuate.
@@VeronicaBrandt ok, good to know. Just started praying this office with my wife. Hopefully, you don’t feel like you’re being put down. It’s understandable: you’re a mother and probably have a lot on your mind. That said, I don’t hold it against you for not having the “perfect” tempo! 😁 I have the Baronius Press version of this office. It says to sing “toni in direction” for the compline psalms. Is this what you demonstrated in the video? Also, any reading recommendations for chant? I’m a trained musician, but I wouldn’t mind reading a good primer/history on it and, if you wouldn’t mind, recommending intermediate/advanced material. Thanks!
@@youtubecharlie1 I picked the tone from all souls Day. There it says the Psalms are recited directly without antiphon, so I'm pretty sure it's the tonus directi they're talking about. The Liber Usualis gives two tones to choose from.
Yes, I think we have to work on slowing down and fostering a more reverent, sedate pace. But on the other hand, it's more how we actually sing it each morning (Prime rather than Compline - we sing Roman Compline these days, though there was a time when we were singing the Little Office Compline regularly)
