Here are all of the modes used for daily Psalms and canticles, played on a synthesizer keyboard. You can find the notation for them on p. 53, and of course at the top of each psalm or canticle. The first note of each bar is held to indicate that it is the starting note, to be chanted for each syllable before the italics indicate the change. The last note of each bar is held to indicate the extra beat, which is represented in the notation by a dot after the note.
Each verse is played three times.
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A feeble, but fairly accurate, effort to sing the Lord's Prayer (since I'm not good enough to play it smoothly on the keyboard), on p. 50 of the MP:
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
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I want to encourage you on your attempts to learn the Mundelein Psalter. It's a great way to chant the Liturgy of the Hours.
I just graduated from Mundelein Seminary last spring, so I'm very familiar with the Psalter and its tones. What you've posted here sounds very accurate. I wasn't too sure about modes IVd and VIIa, but I think that more due to my own unfamiliarity with those particular tones. I don't think either of them are used as frequently within the Psalter as some others ones are, but I don't have my copy of the Psalter in front of me to know for sure.
Let me know if you have any questions about chanting the Psalter, and I'd be glad to try and help. I'd even be willing to record myself chanting one of the offices and either email it to you or post it somewhere and send you the link.
May God bless you in learning the Mundelein Psalter, and I hope this site will help others learn this great prayer resource!
What power behind the words of the Our Father! A devout rendition!
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