To the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, I dedicate this work. In several instances where I could not find traditional chants - (or, in the case of Salve Regina, could not find a recorded version which included the necessary coda, “Prayer Concluding the Rosary”) - I commissioned composer David Yeagley to write new chants in the traditional style.
Wherever I could find free audio files on the Internet featuring traditional chants corresponding to the Rosary prayers, I linked to them here. I do not know if these chants were ever used for the specific purpose of singing the Rosary, but it seems likely. Most of the prayers recited in the Rosary - the Our Father, the Hail Mary, the Glory Be, the Salve Regina and so on - have been sung for centuries in the form of Gregorian chants. Still, the technique set forth below carries a certain weight of tradition, for it draws, wherever possible, on the most venerable customs and practices of our Catholic ancestors. No single approach is authorized or mandated by the Church. The method described here is just one of them. In addition to reciting the Rosary, one may also sing it.
Roman Catholics recite the Rosary as a special devotion to the Virgin Mary. The Rosary is a chain of beads used for counting prayers.
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