Suite à l'invention de la typica

It appears that the package colortbl is missing from the commonheaders file or the calendrier file. (Unless I missed it in the first file.) I did some testing with the second, and the current calendrier file doesn't compile; arrayrulecolor is given as an undefined control sequence. Adding the above package fixes things, and it compiles wonderfully.

I use my own preamble file (in part since I don't have the same fonts to load) which is why it's possible that I missed the package call, but I don't think that I did.

It would be good to find out if this melody is in LH2019

One is a pastiche from an AM34 melody (SS C&M), the other is ultimately from AR12 (COPO) => try and find them in LH2019 ?

verse 2

It should be made clear that only word ends and bar lines "cancel" accidentals, not line breaks.

https://nocturnale.marteo.fr/chant/Q4F2R1/

https://nocturnale.marteo.fr/chant/E1F5R3/

https://nocturnale.marteo.fr/chant/6GN2R1/

https://nocturnale.marteo.fr/chant/Q4F2R3/

Define if we indicate hexachord change with a rubric or only with the clef change.

potential melody changes

Topics help make the repository discoverable for people interested in this kind of things (and thus potential users and/or contributors).

I would suggest adding at least these:

• gabc
• gregorio
• gregorian-chant
• divine-office

Confiteantur... magno + etc. au brev. monastique

Domine Deus ... exaudiebas eos + etc

Exaltate Dominum Deum nostrum + deux fois : .. et adorate x2.

Ces flexes sont présentes dans Sandhofe

1. Make a statistic about the use of either (both are present in GFS scores)
2. Decide if both are fine or it should be uniformized
3. Pick one
4. Standardize

As it stands, the Invitatoriale contains all blessings except those for Easter/Pentecost (can be reduced to a rubric referencing the 3rd nocturn of Sundays) and Christmas (blessings 8 and 9 are proper).
The Psalterium Festivum contains all blessings for feasts of nine lessons, except Christmas.

Those have to go somewhere.

Qui diligitis dominum odite malum + custodit... suorum * ... liberabit eos

Once the relevant comparative table at omnigreg is fixed

Looking at contents of the pdf committed in this repository I stumbled upon a responsory with typos (not present in Sandhofe) https://nocturnale.marteo.fr/chant/09H3N2R1/ It should be:

Sufficiébat nobis paupértas nostra, ut divítias computarémus

I'm not sure what the correct procedure for submitting such fixes is, since gabc files don't seem to be included in any of the project's repositories. I registered on https://nocturnale.marteo.fr/ and tried the "Create my proposal" button for this chant, but the proposal form only supports inserting whole new gabc without providing access to the current one, i.e. it basically requires transcribing the whole responsory anew.

Psalm 20 verse 8 "inimi'cis" : when both syllables mi-cis are italics, there is a kerning issue (e.g. mode 4)

It seems we'll have to reclassify groups of gabc files into subdirectories or something, perhaps under a top-level gabc directory. When I visit the gabc directory, it tells me it stops at 1000 files and 453 or so could not be uploaded.

Not a crisis at the moment, but something to fix at some point.

The big issue is to decide if it's the same melody (and conform it to LH19 p358) or two melodies

• according th –> according to
• according to "X rubrics" sounds unidiomatic to my ears, and I'd personally write "according to the X" rubrics"
• as is the case also –> as is also the case
• commas aren't strictly needed around "in part"

Would you consider using English rules for the English version? The extra padding provided by the language packages for French-style punctuation does look a little off with English.

In the body: I do appreciate the judicious use of some rhythmic markings. For the indications of the psalm tone, using lower case consistently is interesting; capitals for the final (particularly in transposed chants like IV A) is helpful to me, but making this more explicit would be of benefit, perhaps in the introduction. Ditto syllabification. I stick to the Liber Usualis when possible, but Ben Bloomfield used the new pattern, more or less, (so I change things like st or ct to s-t or c-t, and I occasionally pour over the books to figure out the rules in individual cases); doing that doesn't bother me too terribly much, it's just not going to match what people already might use (for Christmas and Holy Week or for the dead in particular).

I'll try to read through the whole draft later — I don't want to complain too much about something that I don't know how fix, because I too have rivers and lakes of white in the psalms when I use columns, but that's the biggest thing that jumps out.

Anyway, having a draft of such a work in the first "useful" volume is tremendous. It's excellent news.

Quia exacuerunt... suas + intenderunt ... amaram * ...