Description
This fourth volume of the extremely popular Gregorian Liturgical Year Series covers the period from the Vigil of Pentecost through the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost (Ordinary Time 24, Proper 19). Thematic material for each piece is taken from one of the Propers of the Mass, and the entire collection is keyed to the three-year Lectionary shared by Roman Catholics, Episcopalians and Lutherans as well as other, less liturgically-based groups. The chant melodies themselves are necessarily taken from the Roman Gradual (Graduale Romanum, Solesmes 1974) and the arrangement of the pieces takes the form of the liturgical calendar found in that volume. The pieces are intended for use as preludes, offertories, communion meditations, and in some cases, postludes. Non-liturgical and liturgical churches alike will find these pieces useful as an enhancement to the beauty of worship, and feel encouraged to explore the wonders of Gregorian chant.
