At 04:22 PM 3/24/05 -0500, David W. Fenton wrote: >The liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s >obsoleted the Liber Usualis, since it reflected the Tridentine Rite, >which was different from the new rite. The official chant book of the >new rite is the Graduale Romanum, a rather smaller book in comparison >to the Liber (because it omits all the office chants), which I have >and used extensively back in the days when I was singing Latin mass >every Sunday.
Thanks for all the background. I have used my copy of the Liber (1963, English introduction) since I bought it new ca. 1965, mostly for source material for compositions. As I, um, stepped out of the religious world about the same time, I didn't follow what happened in the Catholic Church after that. Again, thanks. It was really interesting to hear how a church policy change affected the publication of what I had thought of as a 'standard' reference. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
