Resources

Roman Missal

• The Roman Missal, 2011, 3rd typical edition, English
• Ordo Cantus Missae, Latin, 1. ed., 1972, pp. 177 ff.
• Ordo Cantus Missae, Latin, ed. 2, 1988, pp. 174 ff.
• There is a third edition? but not on Internet Archive.
• Order of Mass, Latin and English
• Missale Romanum, 1962

Scripture and Liturgy

• Lectionary
  • Daily Readings – USCCB, including responsorial psalms.
    • Calendar
  • Lectionary for Weekday Mass, published 2002; is this the current edition?
  • Daily Roman Missal, 2003, with readings, responsorial psalms, alleluias.
• Bible
  • NAB
  • Nova Vulgata
    • Liber Psalmorum
  • Revised Grail Psalms; formerly at GIA (read only) but that link has died.
• Divine Office/Liturgy of the Hours
  • iBreviary
  • Universalis
  • Divinum Officium

Organizations and Instructions

• Saint Gabriel Family of Parishes
• Church Music Association of America
  • Resources
    • Liturgy: how to sing the Roman Missal chants, presidential prayers, etc.
  • Chant Café blog
  • Musica Sacra Forum
    • Which psalm translations are acceptable?, see chonak’s answer in post 6.
  • Rules Governing Chant: Intro from Liber Usualis (1961?) (PDF)
  • Ordo Cantus Missae introduction (unofficial translation) (PDF)
• ChantBlog
• Gregorian Books
• Frequently Asked Questions on Sacred Music (CMAA)
• Advice from the Diocese of Leeds

Music publishers and retailers

—sometimes providing free music!

• CanticaNOVA Publications
  • Liturgical planning
• Sacred Music Library
• Paraclete Press
• LiturgyTools.net lists other music publishers

Strategy

• How to Start Your Own Garage Schola
• The Blueprint: Sacred Music in Your Parish (PDF)

Official Church Documents

• Sacrosanctum Concilium, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, from the Second Vatican Council,
• General Instruction for the Roman Missal (GIRM), United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
• General Instruction for the Roman Missal (GIRM), at the Vatican web site, “Including Adaptations for the Dioceses of the United States of America”
• Musicam Sacram (1967)
• Tra Le Sollecitudini (1903)
• Voluntati obsequens (1974, accompanying “Jubilate Deo”)
• Sing to the Lord (USCCB, 2007) (“official”??)
  • Discussion:
    • ‘I can now see why they decided to vote on this as a set of “guidelines” which do not require the recognitio of the Holy See.’
    • ‘approved overwhelmingly (88%) by the U.S. bishops last month. The document had originally been proposed as a legislative document, but …’

Collections of Music

General

• See also the Roman Missal above; some of them have music.
• Church Music Association of America
  • Liturgical Resources from CMAA, including what parts are to be sung, who is to sing them, how to sing (for priest, deacon, etc.), and mass ordinaries (unison, polyphonic, “equal voices”, requiem)
  • CMAA Music Downloads
  • The Parish Book of Motets
  • See also below under Organizations and Instructions
• CPDL: ChoralWiki, Choral Public Domain Library
  • Category:TB
• Sheet music library of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, FSSP, Littleton, Colorado.
• Sacred Music Library: Useful Links

Gregorian Chant

• GregoBase scores, a database of Gregorian scores
• Benjamin Bloomfield’s tools for GABC transcription, psalm tones, readings, and propers
• Solfege introduction and exercises, FSSP
• Corpus Christi Watershed
• Gregorian Chant Psalmody
• Long Beach Chant
  • Psalm Tones for Introit and Communio
• St. Meinrad Archabbey Downloads includes materials from courses by Fr. Columba Kelly and various collections of psalm tones.
• Fr. Samuel S. Weber
  • Proper of the Mass, vol. 1: Sundays and Solemnities (Ignatius Press)
  • The Proper of the Mass Organ Accompaniment
  • Proper of the Mass, vol. 2: Weekdays (PDF)
  • Proper of the Mass, vol. 3: Saints (PDF)
  • Proper of the Mass, vol. 4: Ritual and Votive Masses (PDF)
  • Purchase the Proper of the Mass books
  • Hymnal for the Hours
  • Hymnal for the Hours
• ICEL Music for the Roman Missal
  • Copyright policies
• Gregorian Chant Hymns
• Cantus Index: Catalog of Chant Texts and Melodies

Kyriale

• Diocese of Leeds Missal Tones (organ accompaniments, PDF)

Graduale

• Graduale Romanum (1974)
  • PDF
  • Print
• Graduale Simplex
  • PDF
  • Translation of Praenotanda
  • Print
• English-language adaptations of the Graduale Simplex
  • Bruce Ford, By Flowing Waters
  • Aristotle Esguerra, The Choral Graduale Simplex
  • Fr. Samuel Weber, Simple Gradual
    • Part of Sacred Music US (Google Sites), which says “This is an older site”, some of which is not simple!
    • Site was unreachable on 2025 March 4.
      
    • New site: Sacred Music US (WordPress)
• CC Watershed Mass Propers in English
  • “Palmer & Burgess or the American Gradual or Arbogast or whatever to obtain English adaptation” recommended
• Communio, downloadable communion chants with multiple verses, Latin and English

Responsorial Psalms

• Responsorial Psalms for Weekday Mass: Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter by Anthony Ruff, OSB
• Chabanel Psalms, responsorial psalm settings by various composers

Hymns and Hymnals

• Worship: a hymnal and service book for Roman Catholics, 1986
• Hymn Descants

Listening

• GradualeProject
• SanctaMissa.pl. —We do not endorse their schism!!! but they sing well.
• Chants of the Roman Missal (English), from National Association of Pastoral Musicians, with a thoughtful explanation of how they adapted Latin chants to English texts.
• LiveMass.net broadcasts of FSSP masses; some of them I hope will be High Masses.
• The Devotional Hymns Project aims to share and preserve Catholic hymns in English written between 1850 and 1950 with audio recordings.