Please note: Practice mp 3 audio files have been added on the site for each Chabanel
Psalm starting with Year A (Feast of the Most Holy Trinity).
This should be useful to cantors who do not read music well.

Hear an audio mp3 file by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski
Sung by the Wyoming Catholic College Choir

Hear an audio mp3 file of a Common ("Seasonal") Chabanel Psalm
Sung by the John Paul II High School choir of Corpus Christi, TX
Soloists: Ashley Gonzalez & Victoria Gutierrez

Hear an audio mp3 file of the Easter Chabanel Psalm (in honor of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini)
sung by Ms. Victoria Gutierrez (2008), a ninth grader at John Paul II High School

Hear an audio mp3 file of a Kyrie for Holy Richard Thirkeld, from the St. Daniel Mass Parts,
also sung by Ms. Victoria Gutierrez (2008)

Hear two versions (version 1) • (version 2) of a Chabanel Psalm for Advent
sung by Ms. Ashley Gonzalez, a tenth grader at John Paul II High School

Hear an audio mp3 file of a Chabanel Psalm in Spanish sung by Ms. Ashley
Gonzalez, a tenth grader at John Paul II High School & also a
Spanish Gloria (mp3 file) from the St. Antoine Daniel Mass Parts

Hear an audio mp3 file illustrating the multiple harmonizations
given for each Chabanel Psalm refrain

[ more Chabanel Psalm audio samples can be found HERE ]

The theory behind the Chabanel Responsorial Psalm project is that one can "clothe" a simple refrain with beautiful harmonies.

One of the many unique things about the Chabanel Psalms is that, for each Responsorial Psalm refrain, multiple harmonizations are given. Sometimes, as many as fourteen harmonizations are provided.

Below, you will hear an example of this, as a simple Alleluia is sung with no fewer than eight different refrains. For the record, the composer's favorite is "version G."

This is also an example of what the Chabanel Psalms sound like when sung a cappella.

(Although notated for organ and cantor, all of the Chabanel Psalms sound good SATB.)