Kids Chant

All the info is at https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au Sorry about the cockatoo noise about 6 minutes in. Consider it your free trip to Australia without all the hassles.

Prime - Prima means the first, so this is the first hour of the day from sunrise. This includes the Martyrology for Saturday 4th September 2021, which is recited the day before, ie Friday 3rd September. In the booklet I mention my Roman Martyrology webpage https://roman-martyrology.brandt.id.au - which is what I usually use, but that only gives the English. If you would like to chant the Latin as I do in this video, you will need either a proper hard copy, or you can refer to https://divinumofficium.com where you can find the anticipated Martyrology each day under Roman Prime. As I understand it, the Vatican released an updated copy of the Roman Martyrology in 2003. I don't have a copy of that one, so I use a much older version which is in the Public Domain. You can download your copy of the booklet from https://dead.brandt.id.au The calligraphic Pater Noster is from https://southernorderspage.blogspot.com/2015/10/yes-yes-yes-laity-may-and-should-join.html

Just Compline - or Completorium if you like everything in Latin, which I do. This is the Night Prayer for All Souls Day, which can also be prayed any day for releasing souls from Purgatory. You can download your copy of the booklet at https://dead.brandt.id.au

Waffling about a new project, Officium Defunctorum, or Office of the Dead. Praying or singing the Divine Office for the Souls in Purgatory in Latin. All the links: https://dead.brandt.id.au https://compline.brandt.id.au https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au https://brandt.id.au

The music allocated for funerals is so beautiful. It's simple and heart-felt and reminds me of different funerals in the past. Here's the page from my hymnbook: https://newbookoldhymns.brandt.id.au/hymns/requiem.html

Dies Irae is this long beautiful hymn of death and foreboding and judgement and pleading for mercy. It is awesome. Here's the page from my hymnbook: https://newbookoldhymns.brandt.id.au/hymns/diesirae.html And here's a related article I wrote for Corpus Christi Watershed: https://www.ccwatershed.org/2014/05/17/gregorian-chant-star-wars/ It's also really handy for pet funerals, as it recalls last things without actually intimating that the pets have immortal souls. You wouldn't sing Requiem Aeternam for a pet animal. Come to think of it, I haven't actually asked a priest about this, so I have to defer to any more authoritative judgement here, but for what it's worth, this is my idea as a lay cradle Catholic. I use some classical music recordings here from liberliber.it: https://www.liberliber.it/online/autori/autori-b/hector-berlioz/symphonie-fantastique-op-14-concertgebouw-orchestra-of-amsterdam/ and https://www.liberliber.it/online/autori/autori-s/camille-saint-saens/danse-macabre-op-40/

Yes, I'm still adding videos for my Little Office Course - currently it's at 10 hours 30 minutes in 94 lectures and climbing! This one is a less usual tune for the Vespers hymn, Ave Maris Stella. https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au

Here's a quick run through what I've been working on lately. https://www.kidschant.com In case it isn't clear, these webpages support the printed books. They don't form a course by themselves. I'm not sure if they'll ever get up to that level. Another thought occurred to me while watching through the video, would this work as another Udemy course. Udemy isn't great on linking to external websites though and its quiz capabilities are very limited. Would videos help with each lesson? And as I mentioned Brandt Lab, here's the link: https://www.brandt.id.au

In response to the kerfuffle over Traditionis Custodes, clearing up a point of difference from the viewpoint of a choir person. Also my first attempts at animation using Synfig. Comparison between the two missals is here: https://lms.org.uk/missals And also here: http://latinliturgy.com/lmtexts.html

St Ambrose's classic hymn of thanksgiving, sung most of the year at the end of Matins and especially on New Year's Eve. For a printable pdf excerpt to follow along with, visit the hymn's page: https://newbookoldhymns.brandt.id.au/ This video is also part of my course about Singing the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Latin on Udemy. Here is the link: https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au

For you Rumble viewers I leave in the seconds at the beginning while I get ready. I have filmed a series of videos explaining the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary and here I explain a bit about how we sing the psalms, starting with the easiest tunes (in my opinion) Surprisingly, there is a bit more to it than I expect. More on my Little Office resources here: https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au

Sing the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Latin https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au Here I am singing the hour of Sexta according to the little blue books published by Baronius Press - 1962 version or thereabouts. Right at the end of the video there was a knock at the door, so I didn't end with the Marian Antiphon. God bless, Veronica

Here I make a start on a plan to explain how to sing the psalm tones for the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I start with the two simplest tones - Recto Tono and Tonus In Directum. The Tonus In Directum is used in the Little Office for the three Psalms in the hour of Compline. Here I'm using the Monastic version, but the Roman version is very similar.

Pentecost came and someone was inspired to show how his kids would sing along to my chant videos, so I had to make another video. This is a bit of a favourite, and I could talk about it for ages, but here I'm going unscripted with kids of finite attention span. You can download the pdf sheet music, as well as read a word for word translation here: https://newbookoldhymns.brandt.id.au/hymns/venisancte.html

Here's Compline from the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary as I used to sing it with my four sons when they were aged between 5-11 years old. The eldest carried the Psalms, the younger ones would intone the hymns and antiphons and join in any bits they knew. You can read the original post here: https://hymni.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/little-hymn-for-the-little-hours-of-the-little-office/ You can learn more about singing the Little Office in my Udemy course here: https://www.udemy.com/course/sing-officium-parvum-bmv/?referralCode=7C9068C18692B9588F76a Or browse my webpage: https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au God bless you!

The Marian Antiphon for Septuagesima and Lent. Well, strictly speaking, it's from February 2 up to the Sacred Triduum. It's the shortest and simplest one, so a great place to start learning. Sung by my family

This is the Easter hymn to Mary which we sing every day in the Office and replacing the Angelus. Usually we just sing the first tune, but sometimes when things are more relaxed we sing the second, and then for one year we actually were able to sing the third arrangement in our own family. The simple Regina Caeli can be found here: https://newbookoldhymns.brandt.id.au/hymns/reginacaeli.html The solemn Regina Caeli here: https://gregobase.selapa.net/chant.php?id=1976 And Aichinger's motet here: https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Regina_coeli_a_4_(Gregor_Aichinger) Enjoy!

Gregorian chant litanies are awesome. Get your sheet music from my article at Corpus Christi Watershed: https://www.ccwatershed.org/2020/01/28/litany-of-st-joseph/

Running through the Rubrics for the Annunciation - feast of the Angel Gabriel's visit to Our Lady and her "fiat" celebrated on 25 March.

https://kidschant.com/2021/03/palm-sunday-holy-week-begins/ IN illo témpore: Cum approprinquásset Jesus Jerosólymis, et venísset Béthphage ad montem Olivéti: tunc misit duos discípulos suos, dicens eis: Ite in castéllum, quod contra vos est, et statim inveniétis ásinam alligátam, et pullum cum ea: sólvite, et addúcite mihi: et si quis vobis áliquid díxerit, dícite, quia Dóminus his opus habet, et conféstim dimíttet eos. Hoc autem totum factum est, ut adimplerétur quod dictum est per prophétam, dicéntem: Dícite fíliæ Sion: Ecce Rex tuus venit tibi mansuétus, sedens super ásinam, et pullum, fílium subjugális. Eúntes autem discípuli, fecérunt sicut præcépit illis Jesus. Et adduxérunt ásinam, et pullum: et imposuérunt super eos vestiménta sua, et eum désuper sedére fecérunt. Plúrima autem turba stravérunt vestiménta sua in via: álii autem cædébant ramos de arbóribus, et sternébant in via: turbæ autem, quæ præcedébant, et quæ sequebántur, clamábant, dicéntes: Hosánna Fílio David: benedíctus, qui venit in nómine Dómini.

https://kidschant.com/2021/03/passion-sunday/ IN illo témpore: Dicébat Jesus turbis Judæórum: Quis ex vobis árguet me de peccáto? Si veritátem dico vobis, quare non créditis mihi? Qui ex Deo est, verba Dei audit. Proptérea vos non audítis, quia ex Deo non estis. Respondérunt ergo Judǽi, et dixérunt ei: Nonne bene dícimus nos, quia Samaritánus es tu, et dæmónium, habes? Respóndit Jesus: Ego dæmónium non hábeo: sed honorífico Patrem meum, et vos inhonorástis me. Ego autem non quæro glóriam meam: est qui quærat, et júdicet. Amen, amen dico vobis: si quis sermónem meum serváverit, mortem non vidébit in ætérnum. Dixérunt ergo Judǽi: Nunc cognóvimus quia dæmónium habes. Abraham mórtuus est et prophétæ: et tu dicis: Si quis sermónem meum serváverit, non gustábit mortem in ætérnum. Numquid tu major es patre nostro Abraham, qui mórtuus est? et prophétæ mórtui sunt. Quem teípsum facis? Respóndit Jesus: Si ego glorífico meípsum, glória mea nihil est: est Pater meus, qui gloríficat me, quem vos dícitis quia Deus vester est, et non cognovístis eum: ego autem novi eum: Et si dixero quia non scio eum, ero similis vobis, mendax. Sed scio eum, et sermónem ejus servo. Abraham pater vester exsultávit, ut vidéret diem meum: vidit, et gavísus est. Dixérunt ergo Judǽi ad eum: Quinquagínta annos nondum habes, et Abraham vidísti? Dixit eis Jesus: Amen, amen dico vobis, ántequam Abraham fíeret, ego sum. Tulérunt ergo lápides, ut jácerent in eum: Jesus autem abscóndit se, et exívit de templo.

I run through the Marian Antiphon for Advent and Christmas. My book, A New Book of Old Hymns, contains all four Marian Antiphons to take you all around the year. https://newbookoldhymns.brandt.id.au