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To: jrny

I mean create a daily podcast/digital recording of the Divine Office (1961 Roman Breviary) said or chanted in Latin. If not all of the hours, at least Lauds and Vespers and maybe Compline.


8 posted on 06/16/2006 5:56:08 PM PDT by ELS (Vivat Benedictus XVI!)
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To: ELS
Would this help?
10 posted on 06/16/2006 9:41:35 PM PDT by Slugworth
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To: ELS

I agree. I'm not sure such a recording exists. I think the only recorded Offices of the Latin Rite (traditional) that exist are Monastic, and the Monastic Office as taken from the Antiphonale Monasticum differs considerably in format and psalm arrangement than does the Roman Breviary.

It is possible to adapt the chants from the Antiphonale to sing the Roman Office. For example, the Liber Usualis incorporated select chants from the Antiphonale such that all of Compline, most Vespers, some Lauds, and a few Matins Offices are presented in their entireties in the Liber. This wouldn't be enough to have as a source for every day's Office, especially since the Liber does not have the Antiphons for weekday Matins and Lauds, nor does it have the Ferial per annum hymns for Matins, Lauds, & Vespers each day of the week, etc., etc.

To my knowledge, no such text was ever produced which rendered the traditional Roman Office in its full chanted form. If someone has the capital, I would get to work today starting to produce such a work. But, I think this would be necessary before an audio version can be available; otherwise, any audio would consist solely of excerpts of the Office rather than the entire Office in its complete, rubrical format beginning to end.


12 posted on 06/17/2006 5:19:07 AM PDT by jrny
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