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OpenDiapason collates and presents a selection of resources for Catholic liturgy.  The music is considered with small parish choirs in mind, who may only have modest resources.  In addition to a selection of music for download, this website offers a high level introduction the use of plainchant in the parish setting, and suggestions for useful books and resources to support small choirs who desire to use some of the Church’s rich tapestry of music, but where the choir may only formed of a few voices.

Content downloadable from this website is available free of charge and may be freely reproduced.  Music is either assumed free from copyright or is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

This website is maintained by Matthew Johnson, choirmaster at St. Ambrose’s RC Church, Kidderminster.
For more information, contact matt@opendiapason.org.uk