presbyter wrote:Does anyone ever use any of the other short Alleluias in the Liber/ Graduale as Gospel Acclamations?
We use the mode 2 chant setting that comes up in the Graduale/Liber many times in the year (including the feast of Ss Peter and Paul). The men of the choir intone the chant, then everyone (choir and assembly) sings the whole thing, then the choir sing the verse in English to a simple chant and then all repeat the alleluia. I reckon it's up there with the most beautiful things we sing. And the people get to join in. I got the idea from the Decani collection Cantate.
See, for example, Graduale p.825ff
Or you could just tell us! I don't suppose many readers will have access to a Graduale. (And anyway, mine - an electronic copy of the 1961 edition - doesn't have a page 825! It goes up to page 658 and then there are loads of appendices where the page numbering restarts. Are you sure about the page ref?)
I'm using the MCMLXXIX edition - although the copyright is noted as Desclée & Co 1974. There are 889 pages then indices which bring it up to 918 pages.
mcb wrote:We use the mode 2 chant setting that comes up in the Graduale/Liber many times in the year .......
Ah - nice. Do the assembly manage the jubilus well? Do you think people in general know what they are singing/praying on that long "a....................."?
One small point. It seems to me that the phrase that a couple of people have used of 'greeting the Gospel' is not the best expression of what is going on at this point. The Alleluia is one of a number of signs of reverence that are accorded the Gospel - in which we acclaim Christ present in his word. It seems to me it is offered, and not required, as an application of 'progressive solemnity' - one of those choices that indicates the relative importance of what we are celebrating.
presbyter wrote:Do the assembly manage the jubilus well? Do you think people in general know what they are singing/praying on that long "a....................."?
It's shorter and simpler than your average Alleluia, so I think it's doable by a willing assembly. I do that thing with my hands to show them where the next note is. By next Sunday we'll have done it ten times (in just over a year), and it feels like confidence is growing.
Gabriel wrote:It seems to me that the phrase that a couple of people have used of 'greeting the Gospel' is not the best expression of what is going on at this point. The Alleluia is one of a number of signs of reverence that are accorded the Gospel - in which we acclaim Christ present in his word.
Though GIRM says
An acclamation of this kind constitutes a rite or act in itself, by which the assembly of the faithful welcomes and greets the Lord who is about to speak to it in the Gospel. [62]
which does suggest that the repetition of the Alleluia afterwards is always going to be derivative (from its first occurrence) and non-normative. No less a valid and valuable sign of reverence, and profession of faith, for all that.
I'm very glad to hear of this revival of the more simpler versions of the Alleluia jubilus. I have to say that I had always thought of them as too complicated for use with a congregation, but the mode 2 one MCB refers to is commendably simple. I must try it out at my church.
For those who may be still struggling to find it, it's the one given for the Christmas Day third Mass (During the Day). Also worth a look are the tone 8 one given for Christmas Midnight Mass and the tone 4 one for the feast of the Ascension.
I don't suppose many readers will have access to a Graduale. (And anyway, mine - an electronic copy of the 1961 edition - doesn't have a page 825! It goes up to page 658 and then there are loads of appendices where the page numbering restarts. Are you sure about the page ref?)