Guides: Music Research Guide: Sacred Music

Books of Interest

Western Plainchant: A Handbook by David Hiley
Call Number: ML3082.H54 1993
ISBN: 0198165722
Copiously illustrated with over 200 musical examples, this book highlights the diversity of practice and richness of the chant repertory in the Middle Ages, and is an indispensable introductional and reference to this increasingly popular music.
Analecta hymnica medii aevi
Call Number: BT 4536 .A5 vols.1-55
Contains authoritative texts of hundreds of medieval hymns in 55 volumes. Also available Online at Open Library; look at the "Online Resources" box on this page for a link.
Chant Made Simple by Robert M. Fowells
Call Number: MT860.F58 2007
ISBN: 9781557255297
Publication Date: 2007
Gregorian Chant by Daniel Saulnier; Mary Berry (Translator)
Call Number: ML3082.S2713 2009
ISBN: 9781557255549
Publication Date: 2009
The Song of Prayer by The Community of Jesus
Call Number: MT860.S68 2009
ISBN: 9781557255761
Publication Date: 2010
Treasures of the Golden Age by Robert Murrell Stevenson; Michael O'Connor; Walter Aaron Clark
Call Number: ML55.S8327 T74 2012
ISBN: 9781576472033
Publication Date: 2012

Online Resources

Dom Mocquereau Collection
The microfilming of seminal liturgical chant manuscripts began in 1974, with generous funding from the Dom Mocquereau Foundation. This unique microfilm collection of nearly 500 manuscript reproductions is often cited in scholarly musicological journals. The collection is most used by faculty, visiting scholars, and advanced graduate students whose research may involve the comparison of chant repertories or the readings of a chant as it appears in multiple sources.

MusicaSacra - The website of the Church Music Association of America. Includes several resources such as e-publications, forums, audio, and CMAA membership information. Also of particular interest are the archives of Caecilia, Sacred Music, and Gregorian Review.

ChantDiscography.com

Corpus Christi Watershed

New Liturgical Movement

Cantus - indices of the Latin ecclesiastical chants found in early manuscript and printed sources for the liturgical Office, such as antiphoners and breviaries.

Indices

Analecta hymnica medii aevi - Contains authoritative texts of hundreds of medieval hymns.

The Hymn Tune Index

Hymnary - a comprehensive index of hymns and hymnals.

Music

Choral Public Domain Library - Over 2800 scores available for free in PDF format. Lists other free sites.

Cyber Hymnal - Lyrics, scores, MIDI files, pictures, history, and other information on over 2,300 Christian hymns and gospel songs from many denominations.

Introits of the Sarum Rite

Liber Usualis Online

The Plainchant Gradual Vols 1 and 2
The Plainchant Gradual Vols 3 and 4

The Salisbury Antiphoner