Reddit mentions of The Mundelein Psalter

I started praying night prayer (or "Compline") this past Lent, and I love it, even if there was a bit of a learning curve...

If you are interested in a online source, divineoffice.org is a great place to start - and they have audio so that you can listen along. What I don't know, though, is whether it's still possible to access their website. They have some copyright issues they need to work out, and they're planning to close the site to new users sometime in the very near future. If you are still able to register, that's probably where I'd recommend starting.

If not (or if you want to be able to pray from your smartphone), there's also an app called iBreviary. You can get night prayer on there as well, and it is, again, really straightforward to use. (There are other apps for the LotH, but that's the one I'm most familiar with).

If you are interested in a print resource, I'd recommend The Office of Compline. It's a book just for night prayer, contains the English and Latin (if that matters to you), and has notation for chanting. That's what I've been using, and it's really pretty simple to use. Having just Compline in the book made things a lot easier to figure out, because there were fewer page turns and simpler instructions.

If you think you might branch out and pray more than just night prayer in the future, you could also consider a book that contains the other hours. Christian Prayer also contains Morning and Evening prayer (Lauds and Vespers), as well as shortened versions of the other hours. If you're interested in chanting/singing the prayers, then The Mundelein Psalter is another option - I've just started praying Lauds using this one, and so far it's working well for me, although there's no way this book could be described as portable. It makes my Bible look small.

In terms of general "how-to" resources, I'd suggest checking out /r/divineoffice - there are LOTS of questions already answered over there, and some decent suggestions for outside resources.

When I started chanting psalms, I used the Mundelein Psalter. It looks like you can get one for around $35, which is a great price. Very simple and singable, it uses only two measures for the psalm tones. Every thing is pointed and the tones are provided. It's an excellent psalter. And the hymns are beautiful.

These Weber tones look very similar. Scroll down to 431 and you'll see the eight modes.

Christian Prayer also has a primer on chanting the Office, and there is a collection of psalm tones (most of which are two measures long, though there are a few that are four). I've used these in my parish for Evening Prayer.

I learned some traditional chant many years ago, but we never got into the Office -- only devotional and Mass settings. So I never really got into incipit, flex, etc.

>I don't chant the office at all. Usually I make up or follow a tune in my head for the hymn though. I love the idea of using a tone for the more important antiphons like the invitatory or the Benedictus/Magnificat. Maybe I should look into it! My breviary set (Collins Divine Office) doesn't contain chant guides, as far as I'm aware.

Do you read music, standard notation and/or neumes?

I started chanting Fr. Weber's The Office of Compline. And I have also used the Mundelein Psalter, which offers tones that are very simple and adaptable.

Here are some sample pages of the Mundelein. Check out this setting for II Vespers. If you scroll down to the Magnificat, you'll see that the tone used is called 1F. I use that tone for almost anything.