Footnotes:
The Plainsong Tradition of the Community of St. Mary

  1. Anonymously compiled by Dr. Morgan Dix. The Book of Hours
    (
    New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1865).
  2. The Rev. Dr. J.M. Neale. Breviary Offices (London: J.T. Hayes, 1874).
  3. The Rev. Thomas Helmore, M.A. A Manual of Plain Song. (London: Novello and Co., 1850). American musicians are most familiar with Fr. Helmore's plainson adaptation of "O come, O come, Emmanuel," Hymnal 1982 No. 56.
  4. H.B. Briggs and W.H. Frere. A Manual of Plainsong. (London: Novello and Co., 1902).
  5. The Rev. Charles Winfred Douglas. The Psalms of David from the Saint Dunstan Psalter. (New York: The H.W. Gray Co., 1917).
  6. "Charles Winfred Douglas: 1867-1944," St. Mary's Messenger, Vol 45, No. 1, p 150.
  7. The Rev. Dr. J.M. Neale. The Night Hours of the Church. (London: J.T. Hayes, no date).
  8. The Rev. Charles Winfred Douglas. The Order of Matins according to the use of the Community of Saint Mary. (Peekskill, NY: St. Mary's Convent, 1916).
  9. The Rev. Charles Winfred Douglas. Ceremonial Noted. (Peekskill, NY: St. Mary's Convent, 1923).
  10. Canon Douglas' task of adaptation was facilitated by an edict of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne in 800 AD. Charlemagne required that all monasteries in his domain use the Roman Rite and chant the same Latin office. For more than a thousand years, Western European Benedictine monasteries followed substantially the same music with local variations that are inevitable with oral traditions.
  11. The Day Office of the Monastic Breviary. (Peekskill, NY: St. Mary's Convent, 1918).
  12. The Rev. Charles Winfred Douglas. The St. Dunstan Edition: The Kyrial. (New York: H.W. Gray, 1933).
  13. Canon Douglas would have used a first edition Antiphonaire de Hartker, but it is not in the Community's posssession. We use the following for reference: Paleographie Mulicale: Les principaux manustrits de chant Gregorien, Ambrosien, Mozarabe, Gallican, publies en fac-similes phototypiques, Duxieme Serie, Vol. I: Antiphonaire de Hartker (Manuscrits Saint-Gall 390-391), New Edition by Dom Jacques Froger. (Bern: Editions Herbert Lant & Cie SA, 1970.)
  14. Dom Andre Mocquereau, ed., Paleographie Musicale: Les principaux manuscrits de chant Gregorien, Ambrosien, Mozarabe, Gallican, publies en fac-similes phototypiques, Premiere Serie, Vol. IX: Antiphonaire Monastique, XII, Codex 601 de la Bibliotheque Capitulaire de Lucques, (Tournai (Belgique): Societe de Saint-Jean L'Evangeliste, Desclee & Cie, 1906).
  15. Dom Andre Mocquereau, ed., Paleographie Musicale: Les principaux manuscrits de chant Gregorien, Ambrosien, Mozarabe, Gallican, publies en fac-similes phototypiques, Premiere Serie, Vol. XII: Antiphonaire Monastique, XIIi, Codex F160 de la Bibliotheque de la Cathedrale de Worceste, (Tournai (Belgique): Societe de Saint-Jean L'Evangeliste, Desclee & Cie, 1922).
  16. The Rev. Winfred Douglas. The Monastic Diurnal Noted. (Kenosha, WI: St. Mary's Convent, 1952.)
  17. The Rev. Winfred Douglas. The Monastic Diurnal Noted, Vol. II. (Kenosha, WI: St. Mary's Convent, 1960.)
  18. Community of St. Mary, Eastern Province. The Monastic Diurnal Revised. (Peekskill, NY: Sisterhood of St. Mary, 1989). The Office for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday including the complete Tenebrae was completed and bound as Volume II of the Monastic Diurnal Revised in time for Holy Week 1990.
  19. Source material for the Missa Marialis: Mass IX Cum jubilo, Abbaye Saninte-Pierre de Solesmes, Graduale Triplex, (Paris-Tournai: Desclee & Socii, 1970), p. 741.
  20. Source material for the Missa de Angelis: Mass VIII, op. cit., p. 738.
  21. Source for the Kyrie: Mass XI, In dominicis per annum, op. cit., p. 748. For the Gloria: Mass XIII, Stelliferi conditor orbis, op. cit., p 754. For the Sanctus: Mass V, Kyrie magnas Deus potentiae, op. cit., p 728. For the Agnus Dei: Mass XIV, Jesu redemptor, op. cit., 759.
  22. Source for the Kyrie: MassXVII, Kyrie salve, op.cit., p. 764. For the Sanctus: Mass XVII, op. cit;, p 765. For the Agnus Dei: Mass VII, Kyrie rex splendens, op. cit., p. 737