A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Vesperale

VESPERALE—The Vesperal. That portion of the Antiphonarium Romanum which contains the Plain-Chaunt Melodies sung at Vespers. It contains the words and music of all the Psalms, Canticles, Antiphons, Hymns, and Versicles, used throughout the ecclesiastical year; the music being printed in the old Gregorian Notation. The most correct Vesperals now in print are those published at Mechlin in 1870, and at Ratisbon in 1875; the latter formally authorised by the Congregation of Rites.

[ W. S. R. ]