[Gutenberg 23673] • The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book

For most of this past century, ***The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book* ** has been acclaimed as the standard and most popular Catholic choir hymnal in the United States from the 1920s until the 1960s. The Neumann Press has now republished this most sought-after book exactly as the 1941 edition.

It contains a complete collection of approved English and Latin Hymns, Motets, Masses and Liturgical Music for the various seasons of the Ecclesiastical Year. This beautiful, easy to read, and complete edition also contains the organ and piano accompaniment along with four-part music. A most favorite treasury of Catholic music, it contains devotional melodies from traditional sources that are truly Catholic in origin. Melodies and Hymn tunes that are known and loved by the French, Slovak, Polish, Italian, German, and other Catholics, are here given in their original form with appropriate English texts.

Included in the almost 450 music entries are selections for Advent, Christmas, Lent , Passiontide, Palm Sunday, Eastertide, Pentecost, Holy Trinity, Corpus Christi, the Blessed Sacrament, The Blessed Virgin, the Saints, Holy Communion, Holy Souls, Holy Week Responsories, Forty Hours Adoration, Confirmation, First Friday, Holy Hour, Pontifical Ceremonies, The Sacred Heart and a complete set of Benediction Motets. Music for High Mass is also included (Asperges and Vidi Aquam), together with the Responses, etc., and the Mass of the Blessed Virgin (Missa. B.M.V. cum jubilo), with Credo No. 4. Includes Alphabetical Index of First Lines, Classified Index of English Hymns and Latin Hymns and Motets.