Dear Friends,
I'm pleased to let you know that 1st volume of the New Antiphonale Monasticum is now finished, printed, and, starting from October the 2nd 2017, it will be available for purchase.
It has been a 3 years work using Gregorio and LaTeX encoding only, based on 20 years researches and studies on medieval musical manuscripts, and it's the first edition specifically made for Benedictine Communities singing the Office according to the alternative schema B (nowadays, the most used psalms disposition worldwide).
This first volume contains the De Tempore cycle, that is to say: Hymns (included and the most of them extensively notated), Antiphons, Responsories and verses for Lauds to Compline from Advent to Christmastide, Lent, Easter time, the Psalterium per hebdomadam (with a double antiphons series), the antiphons to Magnificat and Benedictus for the Dominicae per annum (liturgical cycles A, B and C), the Compline office and a Latin only Psalterium festivum to sing Lauds and Vespers psalms in Feasts and Sundays.
A second volume with the Sanctoral cycle will follow (we hope next year!).
(it's in Italian, but I hope that Google will do a good job for the ones of you who don't understand Italian...).
Within the end of the week prices and remaining infos will be published (... I hope...).
I'd like to thank so much here all the Developers for the great job they did in supporting, helping and advising me to carry on this project (the biggest made with Gregorio and LaTeX only since now, I suppose...?) and for the high quality of the software we have now: we hope that this book will be a good example of what Gregorio can do!
And thanks alto to anyone of you that gave me some hints, especially at the beginning.
Ut in omnibus glorificetur Deus,
Sr. Maria Ruth OSB