Chants and songs

Unless otherwise specified, all the JavaScript is self-written. The main program used to generate organ-like performance of the melodies is this file.
The following free, open-source tools were used to generate SVG images of chants.
- luatex as a typesetting engine
- gregorio to typeset the chants
- Inkscape to convert luatex’s PDF output to SVG format

Music

You will doubtless tell from the quality of the singing that the voice recordings are of a dilettante. (Calling him an amateur would be an insult to amateurs… 😉)
The organ sample comes from a set of WebAudio examples that Mozilla once made available for free, then hid away somewhere for some mysterious reason, breaking a lot of links on their WebAudio tutorial pages in the process. I found a copy somewhere else, which link I cannot now find anymore…

Texts

English translations are mine, so you know whom to blame for all defects. (You get what you pay for!) Contact me in the customary way. Be sure to delete .delete-if-not-spam from the address!
The Latin hymns are of course commonly found online, though I relied mostly on Solesmes’ Liber Hymnarius, on a Dominican Antiphonarium (left sidebar), and for one hymn on a text on early Christian hymnody.
The Canticles of Dante are taken directly from the Commedia Divina, which I have sort-of read. (Dante wrote in Tuscan, not Italian, which is based on Tuscan. In addition, a lot of Dante’s references are dated, so you need to refer constantly to commentaries and/or footnotes if you want to know what’s going on.)
The text of the Italian hymn Tu scendi dalle stelle is taken from an Italian hymnbook, Cantinfesta.
The Italian hymn Tu se la mia vita is readily found online, and the text is taken from an Italian hymnbook, Cantinfesta.
The Russian hymn Свет невечерний comes from a Russian Catholic hymnbook whose name escapes me at the moment.
The Russian hymn Господи помилуй is readily found online.

Chants

The following sources were used to generate SVG images of chants. No copyright infringement is intended; they are placed here with the intention of fair use: I have copies of the documents and post them mainly so I can use them when I travel, but also in the hope of stimulating others’ interest so that they investigate the sources and buy them.

Benedictine indicates Solesmes’s Liber Hymnarius, available from retailers or directly from GIA Publications.
Dominican indicates any of:
- Fr. Augustine Thompson’s Antiphonarum pro Liturgiam Horarum Iuxta Usum Ordinis Prædicatorum,
- Holger Sandhofe’s Nocturnale seu Antiphonarium Sacri Ordinis Prædicatorum pro nocturnis horis,
- the Order of Preacehrs’ Antiphonarium Juxta Ritum Sacri Ordinis Prædicatorum, published in 1862 when Fr. Vincent Jandel, OP was Master of the Order,
- the Order of Preachers’ Antiphonarium Sacri Ordinis Prædicatorum Pro Diurnis Horis, published in 1933 when Fr. Martin Gillet, OP was Master of the Order.
all currently available from Dominican Liturgy. You’ll notice the chants from the 1862 text as their neumes tend to have more “decorations”.
Mundelein or Meinrad (depending on when I wrote it) indicates either
- The Mundelein Psalter, currently available from retailers or directly from Liturgy Training Publications, or
- Hymnal for the Hours, currently available from retailers or directly from Lulu Press.
The Mundelein Psalter was done in collaboration with Fr. Samuel Weber, the author of Hymnal for the Hours, and the hymns I’ve compared have the same melodies, so I tend to use them interchangeably, though it’s possible that there are substantial differences.
At least one chant and at least one hymn are my own.

Cantus (Songs)

Advent

General

The Hours, before 16th December

The Hours, after 16th December

Christmas

Lent

Holy Week

Easter

From Easter Sunday until Ascension Sunday

Ascension Sunday

From Ascension Sunday until Pentecost

Hymns through the year

Solemnities of the Lord

Trinity Sunday

Corpus Christi

Sacred Heart

Christ the King

Vigils

Lauds

Vespers

General

From the Breviary

Compline Hymns

Hymns to Saints

Canticles of Dante

Other

Sources

Software

Music

Texts

Chants

The Hours, before 16^th December

The Hours, after 16^th December