The USCCB will begin taking orders on their edition March 1, but, in the meantime, Liturgy Training Publications has now made its edition available for pre-order. It doesn’t appear to be leather but it looks very beautiful and the price is right. (Correction, LTP does offer a leather edition and a chapel edition too.)
Note that there are three options for this Missal:
http://www.ltp.org/c-34-RITUAL-BOOKS.aspx
…one of which is leather and printed in Italy.
That's much nicer looking on the outside than the WLP edition.
The site says we can "look inside the book
with Google Preview:", but there's nothing there, unless I'm just missing something. And October 1 seems a little late. We need time to familiarize ourselves with it before using it. What are elderly priests going to do with so little time? The way the whole translation project has been approached, from begining to end, has been a puzzle to me.
Yes, a puzzled indeed. We live in times of openness and sharing and spreading of information. But the model that has been generally favored in the production and release of this Missal has been very old world in the worst sense: closed doors, closed source, closed committees, high emphasis on control and dictate. It's all been pointless to my mind. There was nothing to lose and everything to gain from opening up, but that was not the route chosen. It's a pity really.
Jeffrey:
First of all, well said.
Secondly, can you explain to us Chant Cafe "lurkers" who are non-professionals in terms of music but who will have to make decisions about Missal-buying what the difference would be between WLP's "re-engraving" of the chants and editions that will not feature this?
Finally, do you know why the notation is modern and not Gregorian. Once the professor at the seminary explained what the two clefs were – and thus how to find C or F – even we non-musicians were off and running reading the music. And e was right: it really IS far easier to read that modern music!
Thanks! And SPECIAL THANKS for those video tutorials! If only we had had them back in "the old days" …. but then again, I grew up with the old Saint Basil's Hymnal and James A. Korman's "Mass of the Blessed Sacrament" (McLaughlin and Reilly!!!!)
The modern notes were favored to eliminate any possible resistance to using the music, and there is a perception out there that square notes might frighten people. Unlike the past Missal, the music in here is really intended to become standard.
I don't know anything about the methods the publishers have used in setting the music.
'square notes might frighten people'
Makes me wonder where has that 'adventurous spirit to unknown' gone, especially Americans who came to the unknown land and work hard, set goals, persevere…Can Americans bring back that spirit and set an example to others in the Catholic church, where many of today's faithful seek for comfort, easy and quick?
Work hard, perseverance, setting goals? bwaaahaha. Clearly posted by a non-American.
Gee, Jeffrey, you're right.
Yes, by a non-American, but one who admires that true American spirit. All those wonderful American history books and story books I read couldn't be wrong. That's why I'm here in America.