[Nocturnale] Website advancement & "market study"

[Matthias Bry]

Hello everyone,

Here are some news after a few weeks:

- I feel the website is good enough that we can start populating it. What is still missing is to populate the list of sources : write me in private with sources that might be interesting to add. Facsimiles have to be publicly available because of the requirement of openness of the critical edition process in NR. I will shortly add all sources listed in Sandhofe's NR02.

The history of edits on user-proposed restitutions in the website is available on Github.

- Anne and I have started some work with the Officium Defunctorum, because we sadly need to publish it rather soon in a dedicated booklet, for a terminally ill friend.

- I have typeset the rubrics for the Sanctorale and started working on the Temporale, basing myself of the transcription of the rubrics in Sandhofe's NR02 by Rob Leduc. A great many thanks to him again. Those edits do not go through the website but get pushed directly to Github.

- It has been suggested to me by several well-learned people, independently, to publish two books, a practical edition for Sunday and major feasts (no ancient neumes, no variants, with pointed psalms and duplicated scores as needed for minimal page-turning), and a critical edition for all days of the year (with ancient neumes, variants, just the Matins psalter with no pointing, and no score duplication). All reflections and considerations on this question are warmly welcome.

- I want to publish a poll, as wide as possible (Mr. DiPippo has very kindly offered to publish it on NLM), as a "market study" of sorts, in order to get a feel of how to make the book(s) as widely used as possible. Hereafter is a draft of the poll. If you think of other questions to add, please reply to me in private, it would be very welcome.

In the joy of the Resurrection,

Matthias "marteo" Bry "von Pikkendorff"

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1. How often do you sing the night hour of Divine Office (Matins / Vigils / Office of Readings) ? (Please do not count recto tono as singing when answering this question, but do count the case where you sing only some pieces.)

- Daily

- On Sundays

- On greater feasts

- On Christmas and/or during the Sacred Triduum (Tenebrae)

- Never

- Seldom or never, but I would sing them more often if I had the right book

2. Which one(s) of these applies to you?

- I use a large collective lectern, and therefore prefer full-size books in large print

- I use an individual lectern, and therefore prefer larger books in normal print (e.g. Antiphonale Romanum 1912)

- I hold my chant books in my hands, and therefore prefer a hand-held edition (e.g. Liber usualis, or the recent Solesmes books)

3. When singing the Divine Office, which rubrics do you follow?

- 1960 (Extraordinary Form)

- Ordinary Form

- 1954 (Divino Afflatu)

- Check this if you use the pre-Urban (medieval) hymns instead of those in the EF Breviary

- Traditional monastic rite

- Modernized monastic rite

- I mix them / I use my own texts

4. Which of these systems of notation would you appreciate having in a book?

- Squares, diamonds and quilismas only (Vatican edition)

- Solesmes rhythmic signs (with ictus)

- Solesmes rhythmic signs (horizontal episema only)

- Different signs for special neumes: oriscus, stropha, liquescences

- Vectorized (standardized) Saint-Gall neumes (i.e. NABC, if you know what that is)

- Hand-transcribed Saint-Gall neumes

5. In responsories, after printing the verse, do you think printing the respond in full, in order to avoid having to look back for the dagger in the first part of the responsory, is a worthy use of paper (and therefore weight and money)? This would bring the book's weight from an estimated 1,1kg to 1,3kg (from 2,4 to 2,9 lbs).

- Yes

- No

- No opinion

6. Do you sing or read Lessons in Latin or in your own language?

- Sung in Latin

- Sung in vernacular

- Read in Latin

- Read in vernacular

7. We are doing this non-profit, but quality paper and binding comes at a price. How much money would you invest into an Antiphonary for Matins?

- More than $80/75€

- Between $40/35€ and $80/75€

- Less than $40/35€

- I would rather print PDF booklets myself

- I have no plans to sing Matins

8. If you want to be kept up to date with the new edition of the Nocturnale Romanum, please enter your email below.

9. Do you have any comments, additions, or questions regarding your chanting of Roman Matins?

[Jakub Pavlík]

Hello,

just two minor suggestions concerning the poll:

the "No opinion" option should be available for most or all questions

and question 3 should definitely accept multiple choices.

Personally I would also love to have option "Pre-1912 Roman" in question 3 and see how many checked it. (Will you publish the results? Or even the raw collected data?)

Regards,

Jakub

út 19. 4. 2022 v 17:17 odesílatel Matthias Bry <matthi...@gmail.com> napsal:

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[Matthias Bry]

Hello everyone,

Many thanks to those of you who have given me feedback on the survey's questions. I have added a pre-Pius X psalter option, "other" options for some questions, and ensured that most of them are "check all that apply" and not "check one". Fortunately, Google Forms is quite versatile.

I have set up one survey in French and one in English. Here they are :

English : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yq6YI5BxfJhaCbg-udvUpjK3_eKjeQXtjYb601syAtw

French : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/13XByLoXzHXHBBOIQzUKYBcbTyFQ20OqddpYbxd7HBnA

Please share those links with anyone who might be interested in the project, or independently from it has the habit of singing the night hour of one of the versions of the Office.

I will share the almost-raw data, but I will curate it manually to ensure that no identifying information is left in (people might, for instance, indicate their community in one of the "other, please expand" checkboxes.)

In Christo,

Matthias "marteo" Bry "von Pikkendorff"