Websites
Corpus Christi Watershed:
Preserves, researches, archives and publishes material relating to the traditional (pre-Vatican II) Latin Tridentine Mass, both liturgy and music: www.ccwatershed.org
Sancta Missa:
Sacred Music of the Liturgy: Sacred Music Tutorial and Resources for the Traditional Latin Mass: www.SanctaMissa.org
Text & Bytes:
Provides gateway access to online Medieval manuscript libraries at the University of Zurich in Switzerland and the Abbey Library of St. Gall at University of Tübingen, as well as other sources. www.textandbytes.com
e-codices – Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland:
Supported by the University of Fribourg, a vast online repository of medieval manuscripts both sacred and secular. New material scanned and uploaded daily since 2005. https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en
Church Music Association of America. Discussion group for Catholic/Anglican Church musicians.
GregoBase: A Database of Gregorian Scores
Polish American Liturgical Center at Orchard Lake, Michigan:
The Polish-American Liturgical Center was founded in 1969 to promote liturgical reform after Vatican II and to provide Polish-American communities and their parishes with the latest most current liturgical materials including the preparation and distribution of new scripture translations and of sermons in Polish.
BibleProject is a nonprofit, crowdfunded organization that produces 100% free Bible videos, podcasts, articles, classes, and educational Bible resources to help make the biblical story accessible to everyone everywhere.
Beautifully animated and deeply theologically informed, hundreds of videos by Pastor Tim and his team at the Bible Project teach visitors about the characters, times, places and themes of each book of the Bible. And there’s an app for your phone too!
Polish Hymns Collection
The below collection of Polish language hymns are edited by Sherri (Michalski) Matthew and are freely downloadable as individual pdfs from the Liturgical Center’s website.
- Polish General Hymns (7.4 MB)
- Polish Advent Hymns (14 MB)
- Christmas Carols Vol. I (17.6 MB)
- Christmas Carols Vol. II (8.2 MB)
- Christmas Carols Vol. III (11.8 MB)
- Lenten Hymns (11 MB)
- Easter Hymns (12.6 MB)
Léonin, Pérotin: sacred music from Notre-Dame Cathedral – print on demand sheet music from Lulu Press. 13th century organum I’ve found playable on harp.
Harp History
Armstrong, Robert Bruce. Musical Instruments: The Irish and the Highland Harps Vol. I. Forgotten Books, 2018.
Clark, Nora Joan. The Story of the Irish Harp: Its History and Influence. North Creek Press, 2004.
Devaere, Hannelore. X-Harps: History, Playing Technique, Music, and Construction of the Cross Strung Chromatic Harp. Edited by S. R. L. Clément Philippe, Philippe, S.R. L. Clément, 1998.
Yeats, Gráinne. The Harp of Ireland: The Belfast Harpers’ Festival, 1792, and the Saving of Ireland’s Harp Music by Edward Bunting. Belfast Harpers’ Bicentenary Ltd.; First Edition (January 1, 1992).
Method Books
Childree, Randall. Practice Makes Perfect Basic Latin. McGraw-Hill Professional, 2014.
Heymann, Anne. Coupled Hands for Harpers. Clairseach Publications, 2001.
Heymann, Ann. A Gaelic Harper’s First Tunes: A Primer for Clairseach Based on Remnants of Gaelic Oral Tradition Including the First Tunes Taught Student Harpers. Clairseach Publications, 1998.
Kondonassis, Yolanda. On Playing the Harp. New York, NY: C. Fischer, 2003. Musical score.
Méthode pour la Harpe Chromatique sans Pédales. Available from IMSLP. Gustave Lyon, 1898. Instruction book in French for learning to play the cross-strung Pleyel harp; however, this tutorial is excellent for smaller cross-strung harps as well.
Music and Liturgy
Arnold, John Henry. Plainsong Accompaniment. London : Oxford University Press ; H. Milford, 1927.
Church Publishing. 1979 Book of Common Prayer: Red Vivella. 1979th ed., Church Publishing, 1979.
Collins, John F.
A Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin.
The Catholic University of America Press, 1985.
Dom Mercure, G., O.S.B.
Rythmique Grégorienne.
Edite par les moines Bénédictins de Saint Benoit du Lac
Prov. de Quebec, Canada, 1937.
Dunlap, John R.
An Answer Key to A Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin: A Supplement to the Text.
The Catholic University of America Press, 2006.
Fux, Johann Joseph. The Study of Counterpoint: From Johann Joseph Fux’s Gradus Ad Parnassum. Edited & translated by Alfred Mann, WW Norton, 1965.
Liber Usualis.
Deslée & Co., Tournai, Belgium
Imprimatur 1934.
Rainbow, Bernarr. The Choral Revival in the Anglican Church. Oxford University Press: New York, 1970.
Sister Demetria, Mary, B.V.M.
Basic Gregorian Chant and Sight Reading.
Gregorian Institute of America, 1957.
Stelten, Leo F.
Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin.
Hendrickson Publishers, 1995.
Other Interesting Books
Apel, Willi. The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900 1600 (Hardback). Benediction Classics, 2010.
Bergeron, Katherine. Decadent Enchantments: The Revival of Gregorian Chant at Solesmes. University of California Press, 1998.
Crocker, Richard L. The Early Medieval Sequence. University of California Press, 1977.
Haik-Vantoura, Suzanne. Music of the Bible Revealed. Translated by Dennis Weber, BIBAL Press, 2021.
Hoppin, Richard H., editor. Anthology of Medieval Music. WW Norton, 1978.
—. Medieval Music. WW Norton, 1978.
le Huray, Peter. Cambridge Studies in Music: Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660. Cambridge University Press, 1978.
MacDonald, Robert. The Song in the Night: According to the Melody in the Accents of the Hebrew Text. Energion Publications, 2016.
New Oxford History of Music: The Early Middle Ages to 1300 v. 2. Oxford University Press, 1954.
Panum, H. Stringed Instruments of the Middle Ages: An Illustrated Field Guide to Their Evolution and Development. Edited by J. Pulver, Fairhaven Press, 2018.
Prichard, Robert. A History of the Episcopal Church – Third Revised Edition: Complete through the 78th General Convention. Church Publishing, 2014.
Rankin, Susan. Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology: Writing Sounds in Carolingian Europe: The Invention of Musical Notation Series Number 15. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Seay, Albert. Music in the Mediaeval World. 1st ed., Prentice Hall, 1965.
Werner, Eric. The Sacred Bridge: Liturgical Parallels in Synagogue and Early Church. Columbia University Press, 1970.
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