Simple English Propers

This is the home of Simple English Propers, a project and book by Adam Bartlett. This extraordinary work provides complete entrance, offertory, and communion propers in English with psalms in modal chant, with four-line notation, for Sundays and solemnities. They can be sung by a single cantor or a full choir. The modes from the Gregorian original are wholly preserved to capture the sound and feel of the Graduale Romanum proper chants. They follow a total of 24 chant formulas to make singing easy for any choir in any parish. 

The Simple English Propers is available in hardcover in the CMAA catalog, and as free PDF documents.

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Advent/Christmas:

Lent/Easter/Ordinary Time

Ritual Masses

This playlist is under development. Additional resources coming soon!


Practice Video Links

Advent

Advent: 1st Sunday

Advent: 2nd Sunday

Advent: 3rd Sunday

Advent: 4th Sunday

    Lent & Holy Week

      Ash Wednesday

      Lent: 1st Sunday

      Lent: 2nd Sunday

      Lent: 3rd Sunday

      Lent: 4th Sunday

      Lent: 5th Sunday

      Holy Week

      Palm Sunday

      Holy Thursday

      Easter

        Easter Vigil

        Easter Sunday

        Easter: 2nd Sunday

        Easter: 3rd Sunday

        Easter: 4th Sunday

        Easter: 5th Sunday

        Easter: 6th Sunday

        Ascension

        Easter: 7th Sunday

        Pentecost (Vigil Mass)

        Pentecost (Mass of the Day)

          Solemnities of the Lord (Ordinary Time)

            Trinity Sunday

            Corpus Christi

            Sacred Heart of Jesus

              Ordinary Time

                Ordinary Time: 2nd Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 3rd Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 4th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 5th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 6th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 7th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 8th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 9th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 10th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 11th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 12th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 13th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 14th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 15th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 16th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 17th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 18th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 19th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 20th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 21st Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 22nd Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 23rd Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 24th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 25th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 26th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 27th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 28th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 29th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 30th Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 31st Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 32nd Sunday

                Ordinary Time: 33nd Sunday

                Ordinary Time, 34th Sunday: Christ the King

                Feasts and Solemnities

                  February 2: Presentation of the Lord

                  March 19: Saint Joseph

                  March 25: Annunciation of the Lord

                  June 24: Birth of St. John the Baptist (Vigil Mass)

                  June 24: Birth of St. John the Baptist (Mass of the Day)

                  June 29: Saint Peter and Saint Paul (Vigil Mass)

                  June 29: Saint Peter and Saint Paul (Mass of the Day)

                  August 6: Transfiguration of the Lord

                  August 15: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Vigil Mass)

                  August 15: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Mass of the Day)

                  September 14: Triumph of the Cross

                  November 1: All Saints

                  November 2: All Souls

                  November 9: Dedication of the Lateran Basilica

                  December 8: Immaculate Conception

                  Ritual Masses

                    Funeral Mass

                    Nuptial Mass

                    Christmas

                      Christmas (Vigil Mass)

                      Christmas (Midnight Mass)

                      Christmas (Mass at Dawn)

                      Christmas (Mass of the Day)

                      Holy Family

                      Mary, Mother of God

                      Epiphany

                      Second Sunday After Christmas

                      Baptism of the Lord

                        Simple English Propers

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