SKU: ST.EC59
ISBN 9790220224065.
This volume inaugurates a new subseries devoted to plainsong and monophony. The Choir Book provides all the Proper and Ordinary chants at daily and weekly Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Use of Salisbury throughout the year. It forms a pair with EC60. The edition is based principally on the Sarum Gradual printed by Prevost in Paris in 1527, a time when Lady Mass was at its height, and often enriched by polyphony. The new typeface, based on that used by Prevost, is comparable in size to the exemplar. It is therefore ideal for a group singing from a lectern. The volume begins with a substantial account of the Mass of the BVM across the late Middle Ages, setting the Use of Salisbury in a wider historical context.
SKU: ST.EC60
ISBN 9790220225567.
This volume forms a pair with EC59. The Priest's Book includes all the texts, tones, chants and ritual directions for the priest at Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Use of Salisbury throughout the year. Based on the edition of the Sarum Missal issued by Prevost in 1528, it is a practical resource (the size of an altar book), as well as an edition for study and teaching. There are ritual instructions for the deacon, subdeacon and four servers, and written-out examples of intoned Epistles and Gospels. All Latin texts have English translations. The Ordinal sets out no fewer than twenty different orders for daily and weekly Lady Mass, and the Directory indicates when each is to be used.
