I, Father Pierre François, share the opinion of the other Pierre, Pierre Couderc.

Moreover I think it is very hard to achieve a standard notation, because of the evolution of the matter, which we do not control.

There will be necessarely some duplication of partitions: v.gr. even the Kyrie is not the same in the novus ordo and the forma extraordinaria. In the first one, repetitions are indicated with "bis", in the latter with "iij" or "ij", and there are many cases like this. For getting continuity in the booklets, I think you just have to remain inside of the form of the rite you choose: FO, FE or whatever, and that consistently through whole your booklet.

Fr. Pierre

On 05/22/2013 07:45 PM, pierre wrote:
Mmm, I am sorry to disagree with many of us.
The gabc database should not be a standard of what is "good" gregorian score.
It is not to "us" to decide if we must use i or j, or mass  of PAul VI or older one. We should remain open. "We" are a tool. Only.
It seems to me that the only possible way is to have a gabc database as near as possible of each original book.
If there are many different versions of one hymn in different books, we must have the correspondant entries  possible in the DB.
The fact that the entry is filled is another question. It will be filled if someone fills it. But the DB should remain open.
This could lead to a standard "de facto", if some entries are filled and other ones are not...
But that should not be "by design".
The reference to the original book seems enough to recognize various variants.
And I see no problem if gabc data is more or less duplicated...

Le 22/05/2013 16:58, Olivier Berten a écrit :
Well... I'm actually wondering myself... because I like to be as close
as possible as the source but it doesn't really make sense to me to
have different entries for the Graduale and the Liber versions. One
could argue that we should use some standardised latin (same with the
oe/ae/œ/æ or i/j question).

But on the other hand the Liber gives a lot of information for people
less litterate in that topic which could be useful aswell: accents for
the people less used to the tonic accent placement in latin or noted
psalms for people less used to psalmody...

I also wonder how to deal with the hymns with one different verse for
different occasions, or which are a port of another hymn...

I'd love to have other peoples opinions

2013/5/22 Jacques Peron <[email protected]>:
Hello,

I'd have a question about the rules to be followed on your database.

There are differences between editions of gregorian chants :
- the Graduale puts accents on words only when they have 3 or more syllabes,
while the Liber usualis and others put accents on all accented words ;
- liturgical books use i in place of j after 1962, but not before ;
- æ is often written ae, I think because they had no easy mean to do
otherwise (but I can't be affirmative).

So here is my question : is it better to follow the presentation of the
source in every case (but some chants can be different between different
sources), or to follow uniform rules ? In such a case, would it be possible
to give those rules, for example on the Participate page ?

Please forgive me if I made English mistakes,

Fr. Jacques Peron.


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