Kids Chant

Day 94 of #100daysofchant So close to finishing! For anyone new, I have been working on a course teaching people how to Sing the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Latin since 2020. Recently someone asked about the Psalm tone I was using for Compline compared with page 158 of the Baronius Press book, so I made a technical video exploring what was going on there - you'll have to get the course to find the video. In the process, I updated the booklets - available at littleoffice.brandt.id.au. Today I got around to fixing up the Psalm tone in a recording with one of my sons. So now you have the definitive way to sing Compline from the Little Office. Except I've still got the Monastic Sub Tuum in there, but no one has asked me about that yet, so it's staying for now as a nod to Maternal Heart Church, Lewisham. God bless you!

Day 93 of #100daysofchant The Introit for the feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord (6 August) ILLUXÉRUNT coruscatiónes, tuæ orbi terræ: commota est, et contrémuit terra. Ps. Quam dilécta tabernácula tua, Dómine virtútum! concupíscit, et déficit anima mea in atria Dómini. Gloria Patri. Thy lightnings enlightened the world: the earth shook and trembled. Ps. How lovely are Thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. Glory be to the Father.

Day 92 of #100daysofchant Visionem quam vidistis, nemini dixeritis, donec a mortuis resurgat Filius hominis. Tell the vision which you have seen to no man until the Son of Man is risen from the dead. or Television to no man. No TV. Dixit Dominus.

Day 91 of #100daysofchant The visuals are pages 207 and 1600^4 from the Liber Usualis 1961. Here's my earlier version using a Communion Antiphon: https://youtu.be/XpEtkYi8vI0

Day 90 of #100daysofchant We sang this as an intermission procession for a production of The Man Born to Be King at the Great Hall in Sydney University. That was my introduction to it. The whole audience processed out after the Crucifixion, giving the stage crew time to change the set. More Info: https://newbookoldhymns.brandt.id.au/hymns/vexilla.html

One offspring nominated this as her favourite hymn, so I had to put it in the choir schedule and practise it every day and it's been tougher than anticipated. This is the arrangement from the Living Parish Hymnbook. We stand for God and for his glory, The Lord supreme and God of all; Against his foes we raise his standard; Around the cross we hear his call. Chorus Strengthen our faith, Redeemer; Guard us when danger is nigh; To thee we pledge our lives and service, For God we live , for God we’ll die: To thee we pledge our lives and service, For God we live, for God we die. We stand for God! Jesus our master Has died for us with love untold; His law divine and truth unchanging In this our land their place must hold. We stand for God! in ages olden He placed “the Cross” our stars beside; O may our land, gracious and golden, Be faithful to the Crucified.

Day 89 of #100daysofchant This hymn is more famous for the last two verses: Panis Angelicus. More info: https://newbookoldhymns.brandt.id.au/hymns/sacris.html

Day 88 of #100daysofchant You guys probably all go to the Easter Vigil and sleep in on Easter Sunday, don't you? Well, some really cool stuff happens while you guys are all sleeping. Easter Sunday has this little known optional procession. Do you need a translation here when the words are in the video? Way back when I put A New Book of Old Hymns together, I could not find a translation anywhere. Now they seem to abound on the internet! So many different versions though! There are even variations for Ascension Thursday and Pentecost. Salve festa dies toto venerabilis aevo In tempore paschale: qua Deus infernum vicit et astra tenet. In die ascensione: qua Deus ascendit victor et astra tenet. In die pentecoste: qua sacer accendit Spiritus igne suos. Hail festal day, hallowed forever; On which God defeats hell and seizes heaven. Ecce renascentis testatur gratia mundi Omnia cum Domino dona redisse suo. Behold the beauty of the world reborn bears witness that all gifts have returned with their Lord. Namque triumphanti post tristia tartara Christo Undique fronde nemus gramina flore favent. For indeed, from every side leafy groves and meadow flowers greet Christ as he returns in triumph after the gloom of hell. Qui genus humanum cernes mersisse profundo, ut hominem redimeres, es quoque factus homo. When Thou sawest mankind buried in sin Thou becamest man to rescue man. Tristia cesserunt infernae vincula legis Expavitque chaos luminis ore premi. The cruel bondage of hell's tyranny has passed away, Chaos is in terror of being overwhelmed by the face of light. Pollicitam sed redde fidem, precor, alma potestas, Tertia lux redii, surge sepulte meus. O Nourishing Power, fulfil Thy promise, I pray. The third day dawns. Arise, my buried Lord. Solve catenates inferni carceris umbrae, et revoca sursum, quiquid ad ima ruit. Loose the gloomy chains of hell's prison house and call back whatever is plummeting. Redde tuam faciem, videant ut saecula lumen redde diem, qui nos, te moriente, fugit. Show us Thy face again, that the world may see its light. Show us the daylight that fled from us while Thou wast dying.

Day 87 of #100daysofchant I went with the "est vera" version thinking that it would be the better version as the new books were using it - like the way some of the Pre-Urbanite versions of hymns were being revived. Unfortunately, this isn't the way most of the groups I sing with sing it. "Ubi caritas et amor" is pretty entrenched. If I ever get around to the new version of A New Book of Old Hymns, this is one of many little changes to be made. https://newbookoldhymns.brandt.id.au/hymns/ubicaritas.html

The earlier video reviewing the four main books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cxx5SUY7eI The Benziger 1915 book: https://shop.jubil.us/product/the-little-office-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary/ Christopher Kent's Traditional Little Office is available on your nearest Amazon.

Day 86 of #100daysofchant This one's a classic hymn to accompany the Stations of the Cross. The Latin is so brief and concise and beautiful. There's also a Sequence version with a bit more variety to the tune, but when I put together A New Book of Old Hymns, this simpler one was the only one I knew. For more info see: https://newbookoldhymns.brandt.id.au/hymns/stabatmater.html

Day 85 of #100daysofchant I love how the chorus repeats in two parts. Keeps you awake figuring out which chorus comes next. Also makes it a bit more interesting to sing along the chorus. And it is beautiful - recounting the story of Redemption from Eden to Bethlehem to the Upper Room to Calvary to Heaven. More info at: https://newbookoldhymns.brandt.id.au/hymns/cruxfidelis.html Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis: nulla silva talem profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulces clavos, dulce pondus sustinet. Faithful cross, above all other: one and only noble tree! None in foliage, none in blossom, none in fruit thy peer may be: sweetest wood and sweetest iron, sweetest weight is hung on thee. De parentis protoplasti Fraude Factor condolens, Quando pomi noxialis In necem morsu ruit: Ipse lignum tunc notavit, Damna ligni ut solveret. Hoc opus nostræ salutis Ordo depoposcerat; Multiformis proditoris Ars ut artem falleret, Et medelam ferret inde, Hostis unde læserat. Quando venit ergo sacri Plenitudo temporis, Missus est ab arce Patris Natus, orbis Conditor; Atque ventre virginali Carne amictus prodiit. Vagit infans inter arcta Conditus præsepia: Membra pannis envoluta Vrigo Mater alligat: Et Dei manus pedesque Stricta cingit fascia. Lustra sex qui jam peregit, Tempus implens corporis, Sponte libera Redemptor Passioni deditus, Agnus in Crucis levatur Immolandus stipite. Felle potus ecce languet: Spina, clavi, lancea Mite corpus perforarunt: Unda manat, et cruor: Terra, pontus, astra, mundus, Quo lavantur flumine! Flecte ramos arbor alta, Tensa laxa viscera, Et rigor lentescat ille, Quem dedit nativitas; Et superni membra regis Tende miti stipite. Sola digna tu fuisti Ferre mundi victimam; Atque portum præparare Arco mundo naufrago, Quam sacer cruor perunxit, Fusus Agni corpore. Sempiterna sit beatæ Trinitati gloria, Æqua Patri, Filioque; Par decus Paraclito: Unius Trinique nomen Laudet universitas.

Day 84 of #100daysofchant You know this one, don't you? There's a bit more information here (along with a crossword puzzle to test your vocabulary skillz): https://newbookoldhymns.brandt.id.au/hymns/pangelingua.html

Day 83 of #100daysofchant Everyone should know this one. I keep assuming everyone does, and that's probably why I haven't recorded it already. This is one I loved reading in our parish hymnbook during Mass way back in the 80s, in the Gerard Manley Hopkins translation without the Pelican verse. I would spend Mass memorizing it, even though I'm not sure if I understood it all. You can find more info about it, plus the pdf for the visuals here: https://newbookoldhymns.brandt.id.au/hymns/adorote.html

Day 82 of #100daysofchant This is the day that the Lord hath made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Haec dies quam fecit Dominus: exsultemus et laetemur in ea.

Day 80 of #100daysofchant This is the offertory antiphon for Mass this Sunday SICUT in holocáustis aríetum et taurórum, et sicut in míllibus agnórum pínguium: sic fiat sacrifícium nostrum in conspéctu tuo hódie, ut pláceat tibi: quia non est confúsio confidéntibus in te, Dómine. As in holocausts of rams and bullocks, and as in thousands of fat lambs; so let our sacrifice be made in Thy sight this day, that it may please Thee: for there is no confusion to them that trust in Thee, O Lord.

Day 81 of #100daysofchant This is the Communion Antiphon for this Sunday. I've sung it with the extra verses as found in the Goupil Gradual from Corpus Christi Watershed. INCLÍNA aurem tuam, accélera ut erípias me. Bow down Thy ear, make haste to deliver me.

Day 79 of #100daysofchant This is the Introit for Mass this Sunday OMNES gentes, pláudite manibús: jubiláte Deo in voce exsultatiónis. Ps. 46. 3. Quóniam Dóminus excélsus, terribílis: Rex magnus super omnem terram. V. Glória Patri. Clap your hands, all ye nations: shout unto God with the voice of joy. Ps. For the Lord is most high, He is terrible; He is a great King over all the earth. V. Glory be to the Father.

Day 78 of #100daysofchant https://newbookoldhymns.brandt.id.au/hymns/ofilii.html

Day 77 of #100daysofchant The final installment in the simple sing-through the Little Office of the Immaculate Conception. More info : littleoffice.brandt.id.au

Day 76 of #100daysofchant The penultimate installment in the simple sing-through the Little Office of the Immaculate Conception. More info : littleoffice.brandt.id.au

Day 75 of #100daysofchant The fifth installment in the simple sing-through the Little Office of the Immaculate Conception. More info : littleoffice.brandt.id.au

Day 74 of #100daysofchant The fourth installment in the simple sing-through the Little Office of the Immaculate Conception. More info : littleoffice.brandt.id.au

Day 73 of #100daysofchant The third installment in the simple sing-through the Little Office of the Immaculate Conception. More info : littleoffice.brandt.id.au

Day 72 of #100daysofchant The second installment in the simple sing-through the Little Office of the Immaculate Conception. More info : littleoffice.brandt.id.au