Psallité
Carol Browning, Catherine Christmas, Cyprian Consiglio, Paul F. Ford, and Paul Inwood
This collection of liturgical music is inspired by the antiphons and psalms of the Roman Missal and includes music for each Sunday, Solemnity, and major feast day of the liturgical year. The music is by the Collegeville Composers Group, five composers working collaboratively. (The name Psallité comes from Psalm 47:8 psallite sapienter, sing praise with all your skill)
Psallité provides music for every Sunday and major feastday of the entire three-year Lectionary cycle. The complete Psallité collection contains over 600 songs. There is also a substantial sampler already available - see below. There are three pieces for each Sunday: a Song for the Week (entrance or closing song), a Song for the Word and a Song for the Table.
The music of Psallité is essentially vocal - it works unaccompanied. It can be led by a single cantor, so its ideal for parishes with limited means. For those with further resources, Psallité comes with keyboard accompaniments, guitar chords, and descants for groups and choirs. The form of the music is antiphon + psalm. A cantor sings the Antiphon, the assembly repeats it,the cantor sings a psalm verse, the assembly repeats the Antiphon, and so on - like the Responsorial Psalm, but Psallite makes use of many variants to the basic form so that it never becomes boring. Some pieces are longer, since they are designed to accompany the Entrance procession and the Communion procession as well as reflect on the 1st Reading. The texts of the antiphons are biblically based.
The style varies from plainchant to Afro-Caribbean to folksong and many others, all eminently singable.
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Get to know Psallité with SAMPLER BOOKS and CDs
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. . . or buy the Year A sampler alone, at sale price
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