Music in the Age of Livestream

With all of the livestreamed Masses going on right now, it was inevitable that the music companies and hymnal publishers would start to raise a fuss about licensing and copyright.

Here’s a secret: the Latin Mass parts and the Gregorian hymns are not under copyright. I mean, there are hymnal publishers that will change a few notes or words so they can copyright “their” version, but the originals are all in the public domain.

And of course, the antiphons found in the Roman Missal and the Roman Gradual may be set to plainchant on the fly.

As a gift for these times, here are a couple of Mass Settings for the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, as well as the seasonal Marian antiphon, that you may freely use. More Mass settings are on their way.

These works are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License‭, ‬2020‭ ‬Society of Saint Odo of Cluny‭.‬

You are free to download these documents and share them with others‭, ‬so long as they are not changed in any way or used commercially‭.‬

The Mass settings are meant to be printed double-sided (on short edge and actual size) and folded in half. Works in colour or black and white. The music prints much cleaner than it appears on a monitor. English translation provided as a courtesy.