The Kyriale is a collection of
Gregorian chant
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settings for the
Ordinary of the Mass. It contains eighteen Masses (each consisting of the
Kyrie
Kyrie, a transliteration of Greek , vocative case of (''Kyrios''), is a common name of an important prayer of Christian liturgy, also called the Kyrie eleison ( ; ).
In the Bible
The prayer, "Kyrie, eleison," "Lord, have mercy" derives f ...
,
Gloria
Gloria may refer to:
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* Gloria in excelsis Deo, the Greater Doxology, a hymn of praise
* Gloria Patri, the Lesser Doxology, a short hymn of praise
** Gloria (Handel)
** Gloria (Jenkins) ...
xcluded from Masses intended for weekdays/ferias and Sundays in Advent and Lent Sanctus
The Sanctus ( la, Sanctus, "Holy") is a hymn in Christian liturgy. It may also be called the ''epinikios hymnos'' ( el, ἐπινίκιος ὕμνος, "Hymn of Victory") when referring to the Greek rendition.
In Western Christianity, th ...
, and
Agnus Dei
is the Latin name under which the "Lamb of God" is honoured within the Catholic Mass and other Christian liturgies descending from the Latin liturgical tradition. It is the name given to a specific prayer that occurs in these liturgies, and i ...
), six
Credo
In Christian liturgy, the credo (; Latin for "I believe") is the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed – or its shorter version, the Apostles' Creed – in the Mass, either as a prayer, a spoken text, or sung as Gregorian chant or other musical sett ...
s, and several
ad libitum
In music and other performing arts, the phrase (; from Latin for 'at one's pleasure' or 'as you desire'), often shortened to "ad lib" (as an adjective or adverb) or "ad-lib" (as a verb or noun), refers to various forms of improvisation.
The ...
chants. This collection is included in liturgical books such as the
Graduale Romanum and
Liber Usualis, and it is also published as a separate book by the monks of
Solesmes Abbey
Solesmes Abbey or St. Peter's Abbey, Solesmes (''Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes'') is a Benedictine monastery in Solesmes (Sarthe, France), famous as the source of the restoration of Benedictine monastic life in the country under Dom Prosper Gu ...
.
In the Kyriale, the individual chants of the Ordinary are grouped into complete sets, whose title usually indicates the opening of the
prosula
A trope or tropus may refer to a variety of different concepts in medieval, 20th-, and 21st-century music.
The term ''trope'' derives from the Greek (''tropos''), "a turn, a change", related to the root of the verb (''trepein''), "to turn ...
formerly sung to each respective Kyrie melody. These masses are followed by individual items not grouped with the complete masses.
A shorter Kyriale is included in the second edition of the ''
Graduale Simplex''.
Contents
The following list of Masses indicates the seasons or feasts for which each Mass is intended. In practice, however, Mass settings may be used on days that fall outside the seasons or feasts listed below; additionally, chants may be extracted from multiple Mass settings for use during a given Mass.
Kyriale
St. Emmeram
Saint Emmeram of Regensburg (also ''Emeram(m)us'', ''Emmeran'', ''Emmerano'', ''Emeran'', ''Heimrammi'', ''Haimeran'', or ''Heimeran'') was a Christian bishop and a martyr born in Poitiers, Aquitaine. Having heard of idolatry in Bavaria, Emmera ...
, 2nd/3rd quarter of the 15th century, digitized by the Bavarian State Library
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For most Mass settings, the seasonal/festal classification is listed as follows: as practiced prior to the 1955 liturgical reforms of Pope Pius XII/as practiced under the 1960 Code of Rubrics
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of Pope John XXIII
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/as practiced following the liturgical reforms of Pope Paul VI
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.
* Asperges me (for the Asperges
Asperges is the rite of sprinkling a congregation with holy water. The name comes from the first word in the 9th verse of Psalm 51 (Psalm 50 in the Vulgate) in the Latin translation which is sung during the traditional form of the rite (or opti ...
rite outside of Paschaltide)
* Vidi aquam
Vidi aquam is the name of an antiphon, which may be sung before the Tridentine Mass on Sunday, or either before or at the beginning (in place of the Penitential Rite) of the Mass of Paul VI according to the 2002 rubrics. It accompanies the Asper ...
(for the Asperges rite in Paschaltide)
* Mass I: Lux et origo (in Paschaltide)
* Mass II: Kyrie fons bonitatis (for solemn feasts oubles of the I or II classI class feasts/ solemnities)
* Mass III: Kyrie Deus sempiterne (for solemn feasts oubles of the I or II classI class feasts/solemnities)
* Mass IV: Cunctipotens Genitor Deus (for doubles/II class feasts/feasts of apostles)
* Mass V: Kyrie magnae Deus potentiae (for doubles/II class feasts/feasts)
* Mass VI: Kyrie Rex Genitor (for doubles/II class feasts/feasts)
* Mass VII: Kyrie Rex splendens (for doubles/II class feasts/feasts)
* Mass VIII: De Angelis (for doubles/II class feasts/feasts)
* Mass IX: Cum jubilo (for Marian feasts/Marian solemnities and feasts)
* Mass X: Alme Pater (for Marian feasts/Marian feasts and memorials)
* Mass XI: Orbis factor (for Sundays ''per annum'' .e., after Epiphany and PentecostSundays)
* Mass XII: Pater cuncta (for semi-doubles/III class feasts/memorials
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)
* Mass XIII: Stelliferi Conditor orbis (for semi-doubles/III class feasts/memorials)
* Mass XIV: Jesu Redemptor (for within octaves not of the Blessed Virgin/III class feasts/memorials)
* Mass XV: Dominator Deus (for simples/commemorations and ferias in Christmastide/feria
In the liturgy of the Catholic Church, a feria is a day of the week other than Sunday.
In more recent official liturgical texts in English, the term ''weekday'' is used instead of ''feria''.
If the feast day of a saint falls on such a day, the ...
s)
* Mass XVI (for ferias ''per annum''/ferias during Ordinary Time)
* Mass XVII (for Sundays in Advent
Advent is a Christian season of preparation for the Nativity of Christ at Christmas. It is the beginning of the liturgical year in Western Christianity.
The name was adopted from Latin "coming; arrival", translating Greek '' parousia''. ...
and Lent
Lent ( la, Quadragesima, 'Fortieth') is a solemn religious moveable feast#Lent, observance in the liturgical calendar commemorating the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the desert and enduring Temptation of Jesus, temptation by Satan, according ...
)
* Mass XVIII: Deus Genitor alme (ferias in Advent and Lent, for vigil Masses, Ember days, and Rogation days
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/for ferias in Advent and Lent)
* Credo I–VI
* Cantus ad libitum
** Kyrie (I–XI)
** Gloria (I–IV)
** Sanctus (I–III)
** Agnus Dei (I–II)
* Missa pro defunctis (for requiem Masses)
References
Bibliography and external links
* http://www.christusrex.org/www2/cantgreg/kyriale_eng.html
* http://www.ccwatershed.org/kyriale/
* http://www.sanctamissa.org/en/music/gregorian-chant/the-faithful/kyriale-solesmes.html
* http://www.gregorian-chant.info/kyriale.html
* http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192802903.001.0001/acref-9780192802903-e-3901
* http://www.chantcafe.com/2011/04/kyriale-simplex-hidden-treasure.html
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