The Saint Noël Chabanel Responsorial Psalm Project

The Saint Noël Chabanel Responsorial Psalm Project offers to the Church Universal contemporary, modal, and supremely artistic organ/vocal settings of the Responsorial Psalms based on Gregorian chant. The verses are set to Gregorian psalm tones, while the refrains are usually in meter, in order to facilitate congregational singing. The scores are offered completely free of charge, and can be downloaded in a matter of seconds.

The site is easy to navigate, and there are no strings attached. One of the truly splendid aspects of this project is that various options are given for each Responsorial Psalm. For example, there are numerous reharmonizations of the refrains, allowing the organist to instantly choose the most appropriate style for each individual situation or simply vary the accompaniment for artistic purposes. Another unique feature is the expert layout, which puts each word of every verse right underneath the corresponding note, and furthermore provides stupendously legible typesetting without a single page turn.

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