In adiutorium

music for Roman Catholic Divine Office (Liturgy of the Hours) in Czech language.

Liturgical music, mostly plainchant, engraved with LilyPond. Some pieces are arranged as booklets or books typeset using LaTeX. For further information see project homepage http://www.inadiutorium.cz (Czech only, with summary in English)

License

License of the music: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Unported.

Liturgical texts are property of Czech bishops' conference.

Prerequisites

• LilyPond (version 2.24 is currently used in development)
• Ruby + the Rake build tool (required to build booklets and use development tools, not needed if you only want to build LilyPond music sheets)

Building

• .ly files in subdirectories antifony, invitatoria and spolecne are partial and library files included by other files and are not supposed to be compiled on their own
• .ly files in the root directory and subdirectories not listed in the previous item are standalone sheets and are to be built simply by running LilyPond over them
• rake build in the root directory builds all sheets at once
• in directory antifonar volumes of the Czech antiphonal may be compiled by running rake tasks (run rake -T to see what is available)
• in directory sesity run rake to compile all the booklets at once or rake -T to see how to build them one by one

The lilypond sheets often contain the author's personal notes concerning known issues and future development. To hide them, compile the .ly files with point-and-click disabled:

lilypond -dno-point-and-click FILE.ly

If you are using Frescobaldi, there is the LilyPond > Engrave (publish) menu item for this.

Contents

The core repertory of Czech plainchant for LOTH

• / chants from the ordinary, psalter and proper of seasons (temporale)
• /antifony, /invitatoria partial files for some of the larger materials in /
• /antifonar books and larger booklets typeset with LaTeX, pulling in scores from various LilyPond files as needed
• /sesity booklets for Lauds and Vespers of Sundays and major feasts (one hour per booklet, all proper chants and common tones included)
• /commune chants from the common of saints
• /sanktoral chants from the proper of saints
• /spolecne shared LilyPond definitions

Additional musical content

• /hymny some hymns (mainly hymns not yet included in the official printed hymnal - otherwise hymns are mostly out of the project's scope)
• /nechoral pieces of character other than plainchant
• /paraliturgicke chants for paraliturgical use, not taken from official liturgical books
• /reholni some random chants proper to various institutes of consecrated life
• /rytmicke mostly attempts of rythmical psalm settings with guitar accompaniment (you were warned)
• /cizojazycne random pieces of LOTH music for vernacular versions other than the Czech one
• /jine pieces not fitting in any of the categories above

Project internals

• /nastroje Ruby scripts automating various tasks of the project (at the top of each one there is usually a comment explaining what it is good for)
• /psalmodie psalm tone patterns for use with our custom typesetting tools
• /variationes sketchbook where chants are being developed; directory structure mirrors that of the root directory

See also

• Meum intende - some music for Liturgy of the Hours in Czech by other authors.
• antiphonalia-bohemica - transcriptions of Czech Divine Office chants from older sources
• proprium-pragense-antiphonale - notated Divine Office proper (in Latin) of the ecclesiastical province of Prague

Related tools

• directory /nastroje contains scripts automating various tasks
• extension for Frescobaldi 3 supporting the project's workflow (prior to the advent of the extensions API a customized fork of the editor itself was providing the same functionality)
• adiutor - a database-backed web application providing useful insights in the corpus of chants