Learning these Responsories is probably the trickiest bit of the whole project. I’m not sure about how to sing the oriscuses - they are the punctums shaped a bit like a waving flag. If your choirmaster says to sing them differently, definitely follow your choirmaster.
This part of Matins is good for all Advent, except feasts of Our Lady, which would be the Immaculate Conception (8th December) and Our Lady of Guadalupe (12th December) which is celebrated in the Americas as I understand it. On those feasts, the 2nd Responsory ends with a Gloria Patri and the Te Deum is sung instead of the 3rd Responsory. I have the recording for this, but still need to edit it. Stay tuned!
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