Exsultet

[VML]

Please can anyone point me to a downloadable copy of the new translation of the Exsultet, with the chant.
I know I saw one last year online, but I cannot open the php file that keeps arriving.
Thanks

[Southern Comfort]

This is a downloadable PDF file. Is this the one you are having problems with?

http://www.icelweb.org/musicfolder/openpdf.php?file=ExsultetLong.pdf

[VML]

That is the one I am having trouble opening. I think someone here advised me before, but I can't work out how to open it now.

[Southern Comfort]

If you have Adobe Acrobat reader (a recent version — perhaps that is the problem), you should be able to see the file in your web browser when you click on the link. Once you can see it, you can save it to your computer. I would send you the file myself, but if you can't read PDFs.....

Download a recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader from http://get.adobe.com/uk/reader/. If you don't have Windows 7, click on the link to get the Reader best suited to the operating system you have.

[docmattc]

Does anyone know if the McGuinness setting is being reworked?

[VML]

Thanks SC,
Just dragged it into Adobe, and printed it.

[JW]

Anyone know if trainee deacons are being taught to sing this as part of their formation? I have heard they are not in one diocese and am wondering if this is correct and what the situation is in other areas?

[JW]

http://www.chantcafe.com/2011/04/audio-recording-of-exultet.html

If anyone needs an audio file of the new Exultet translation, click the link above. Does anyone know of any others?

[Hare]

I believe there is a shorter version of the chant Exsultet. Are there specific reasons for using this as opposed to the full version? (And I don't mean just shortened by omitting the bits that can only be sung by a priest/deacon)

Peter Jones mentioned in another thread an Exsultet with "Alleluias" in the refrain. If it's the one by Paul Inwood, our ex PP insisted we used it, but once had a right go at me (rightly so) for putting on "Let all mortal flesh" during Lent - me, like an idiot forgetting that there are Alleluias" in v.4

[Peter Jones]

I believe there is a shorter version of the chant Exsultet. Are there specific reasons for using this as opposed to the full version?

The choice of long or short is in the Missal itself. Your priest's decision might be influenced by whether or not he sees his priesthood as Levitical or of the order of Melchizedeck (see letter to the Hebrews)..

Peter Jones mentioned in another thread an Exsultet with "Alleluias" in the refrain. If it's the one by Paul Inwood, our ex PP insisted we used it, but once had a right go at me (rightly so) for putting on "Let all mortal flesh" during Lent - me, like an idiot forgetting that there are Alleluias" in v.4

I think the Inwood was composed with a transposition of the order of the elements of the Vigil in mind - i.e. begin with the Word and then celebrate Light (so the Solemn Alleluia had already been sung). This adaptation of the rite was considered unsound by the Sacred Congregation and is effectively done away with in Paschalis Sollemnitatis (1988) (paragraph 81). This document insists on the correct order of Light, Word, Baptism, Eucharist, with our fast from Alleluia broken with its accompanying Psalm 117 before the Gospel. Alleluia as a refrain in the Exsultet is inappropriate. The first appearance of the word should be its solemn intonation after Romans 6:3-11.

[VML]

Am I imagining it or are there some parts of the new translation of the Exsultet that have changed in the chant even where the word phrase has not changed?
Who did it? And why? There must be a fair few priests and deacons who have become familiar with the old version, who are ready and willing to use the new words, find some words have not changed, go to sing it as before, and ......

[musicus]

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[HallamPhil]

I have often used the scroll idea when singing the exsultet although it can spread the same sense of impending gloom as the after-dinner speaker who arrives with a large wad of papers. The scroll practice might also be employed for the 2 Christmas season proclamations.

The rejected 1998 Missal contained a setting of the Exsultet using the plainsong but also inserting interpolations serving as Acclamations for the Assembly. Thus whenever the Cantor sang 'This is the night' the assembly responded 'This is our Passover feast'. I would hope to continue this practice with the revised translation.

PS Does the 'return of the bees' imply the adoption of a particular vestment for the singer of this proclamation?

[VML]

PS Does the 'return of the bees' imply the adoption of a particular vestment for the singer of this proclamation?

Very fetching!

[Peter Jones]

For those wondering what Phil is now talking about - and those, such as myself, feeling the pain of loss for my Exsultet scroll art-work - here it is again.

1 - Bees and keepers of same without much protective vesture.