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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.
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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.
Psallité Accompaniment EditionThe complete Accompaniment Books contains keyboard accompaniments, guitar chords and vocal/choral descants, together with all the psalm and canticle texts, for every items. Also included are complete biblical and liturgical indices. Reprintable congregational editions are available on a separate CD-ROM.
Year A Accompaniment Book: Plastic coil binding Code Ps-A £19.99Year B Accompaniment Book: Plastic coil binding Code Ps-B £19.99Year C Accompaniment Book: Plastic coil binding Code Ps-C £19.99~~Year A Accompaniment Book%3A Plastic coil binding Code Ps-A||Year B Accompaniment Book%3A Plastic coil binding Code Ps-B||Year C Accompaniment Book%3A Plastic coil binding Code Ps-C||~2566~3163~~
Congregational antiphons CD-ROM: Ref no. P-CD, £24.99~~Congregational antiphons CD-ROM%3A Ref no. P-CD||~2566~3165~~
Psallite Cantor/Choir Edition Estimated date of publication: late July 2008.
Estimated price: £16.00. Reserve a copy by email~~Psallite Cantor/Choir Edition||~2566~5362~~
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The CDs is for listening and as an aid to prayer, giving a view of the wide variety of styles and also the many forms that are possible within the basic antiphon/psalm format. The performers are the five composers, and they demonstrate how well this music can work unaccompanied.
Contains: Where Two or Three are Gathered, 26 representative pieces from Year AWalk in my Ways, 27 representative pieces from Year B We will follow you, Lord, 28 representative pieces from Year A
A Psallite Triptych, three sampler CDs: Ref. No. PsT, £25.00~~Sacred Songs for Liturgy and Life%3A A Psallite Triptych||~2566~5366~~
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Where two or three are gathered Songbook: W3-Sb, sale price £5.00~~Where two or three are gathered||~2566~5368~~