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Further research into the Little Office of Our Lady.
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Further research into the Little Office of Our Lady.
The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception is much shorter than the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It has no Psalms, only hymns, which all share the same meter.
I will be reviewing four copies of the Little Office which are currently in print:
UPDATE: The Internet Archive has this booklet with all the music for the Dominican Little Office dated 1928. I’ve cleaned it up with scantailor for you to download and print here - just updated 2022-07-29 as the first version was missing pages 2-11.
I received a question on how to sing some of the Common parts of the Little Office. In particular, the Capitulum or Little Chapter and the Collect or Prayer.
Hello, today I’m looking at the difference between the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Holy Rosary.
A 1740 copy Latin with Italian rubrics. Includes the Office of the Dead and the Gradual Psalms and the Office of the Most Holy Sacrament. Lots of prayers in Italian at the end, spelling Jesus as Giesu instead of the standard Italian today using Gesu.
After updating Brandt Lab and then Kids Chant I turned to the Little Office, and have updated the booklets again.
Someone asked for updated straight through recordings now that Paschaltide is behind us. In the morning I set up in the living room and recorded Matins and Lauds, Prime, Terce and Sext. In the afternoon I set up in the spare room and made some more recordings using a different camera which I haven’t used much before, covering psalmtones for...