Patricia Cecilia

Christus vincit by Noyon arranged by Gerre Hancock
I've been using this with my Anglicans for years and never found the orchestra parts available, so I arranged it with brass (2 trumpets, 1 trombone, 1 tuba). If you are interested, send me a message with your email.

Comment by Patricia Cecilia March 2015 permalink
O Gracious Dwelling, two
Did you finish the work and is it available to see/hear?

Comment by Patricia Cecilia December 2014 permalink
Incorporating the oboe?
Bridget, there is a lovely Lent anthem by Mark Hayes, "Lenten Song" with a gorgeous oboe descant (English text). Hinshaw Music. J. W. Pepper has the first two pages for viewing.

Comment by Patricia Cecilia December 2014 permalink
Christmas Postlude
My present organist negotiated not having to play a postlude at the two Christmas Eve services--let the strings (and flutist-conductor, moi) play something! (He's such a good organist and reliable service-player that he's in great demand…

Comment by Patricia Cecilia December 2014 permalink
Dividing children's choirs for 2 part music
I agree with canadash abd bonniebede on how to set up the groups. When I was teaching junior-high choir, I had the choir pre-divided (privately, after hearing them sing for two-three days) into teams named for the two school colors, with strong s…

Comment by Patricia Cecilia October 2014 permalink
Dignus est Agnus
Related question: any polyphonic settings of Dignus es Agnus out there? I found one last year, asked the composer for it, and he kindly sent it with the caveat that he wasn't really happy with it and it wasn't his best work, just rather &…

Comment by Patricia Cecilia October 2014 permalink
Daily Mass responsorial psalm for 23 September (Psalm 119)?
Steven, thank you for the reminder about the Lumen Christi Missal. I have one, but I am so infrequently responsible for/assist at the OF that I forget I have it. I had the correct lectionary from the USCCB website, as I did remember that in the O…

Comment by Patricia Cecilia September 2014 permalink
Clean-looking Salve Regina
(Julie, you're welcome--the Jaeggi arrangement is amazing, especially when sung legato and deliberately introspectively (but not as a dirge :-) so that the harmonies can fully ring. I was so fortunate to find a scan of the manuscript and then …

Comment by Patricia Cecilia September 2014 permalink
What I like about...
'Frogging' is rather universal among English-speaking needleworkers. On the other hand, my choir men use 'frogging' for days when 'the frog is in residence in the larynx' and 'not cooperating.'

Comment by Patricia Cecilia September 2014 permalink
Practical question: How you cut and paste music into a Word document?
I use the Snipping Tool in Windows 7, which works well if one enlarges the target object as much as possible and then reduces it in size when pasting to OpenOffice (I detest Word and Publisher and will not use them). I clean up the jpg in Paint if …

Comment by Patricia Cecilia September 2014 permalink
Clean-looking Salve Regina
There is a fabulous resource that will generate a splendid number of chants: \ http://stceciliacathedralmusic.org/?p=434 (introductory page) The default is the Propers tool, which will generate Sunday propers (in either Form) and some feast day pro…

Comment by Patricia Cecilia September 2014 permalink
Favorite Magnificat of all time?
Cantus67--that one IS the one in the St. Gregory. My schola, both youth and adults, can sing it practically from memory, and done musically, is quite lovely.

Comment by Patricia Cecilia May 2014 permalink
strong hymn texts for Saint Joseph the Worker?
Te Joseph celebrant.

Comment by Patricia Cecilia May 2014 permalink
Ave Verum - SA or TB + O Bone Jesu + Ave Verum - Baritone/Mezzo
Noel, I finally got around to looking at the M/B setting--also a winner, thank you. I see that you think about baritones in the same way as I do, i.e., they really are a flexible middle male voice with notes on both ends of the spectrum. This one …

Comment by Patricia Cecilia May 2014 permalink
Ave Verum - SA or TB + O Bone Jesu + Ave Verum - Baritone/Mezzo
Francis, sure, if you'll pay me in Mass intentions (for a job, for my son who will start his undergraduate work at a public institution with an abysmal Newman Center this August--he's already planned out how to come home on weekends to ass…

Comment by Patricia Cecilia May 2014 permalink
Ave Verum - SA or TB + O Bone Jesu + Ave Verum - Baritone/Mezzo
Noel, maybe I'm just being thick-headed at the end of the weekend, but when I look at the two versions posted at the beginning of this discussion, it looks like the TB version was transposed down a major 7th, but the key signature did not chang…

Comment by Patricia Cecilia May 2014 permalink
Question on EF Good Friday St. John Passion
Nevermind.

Comment by Patricia Cecilia April 2014 permalink
Music of Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci
I am so glad to see these pieces,Charles! Thank you for pointing out that they are available. (One thing that works with my sopranos is "being excused from consonants at the top of the staff" and "only singing the most beautiful v…

Comment by Patricia Cecilia April 2014 permalink
Chrism Mass Music
Philip Stopford has also written a gorgeous setting of "Come down, O Love divine" that I used last year on Pentecost (and will continue to do so). Tournemire, I love Mawby's Ave verum corpus and just wish I had the forces (other th…

Comment by Patricia Cecilia April 2014 permalink
Prologue of the Gospel of John
In the EF, the Gospel begins with "Sequentia..." i.e., "A continuation of the Holy Gospel according to..." except when it is the first chapter of a Gospel (as in the regular Last Gospel, the Prologue of St. John's Gospel) wh…

Comment by Patricia Cecilia April 2014 permalink
What's the market value of professional singers?
I, like Franny, am in the South, and my church job is for Anglicans. I inherited 8 section leaders who, 10 years ago, were paid $30 per service (the choir rehearsal is on Sunday mornings before the one sung liturgy, which is high-church Anglican ou…

Comment by Patricia Cecilia March 2014 permalink
Status of PBEH (Parish Book of English Hymns)?
Frogman, it was the apparent lack of new submissions/hymns that had me concerned about you and those working with you on the project. I check in at your website from time to time and will be using "If You Can Sing Joy..." as part of a cha…

Comment by Patricia Cecilia January 2014 permalink
Free Materials for Introductory Gregorian Chant Workshop
Thank you very much--these will be very helpful in a workshop I am giving on Saturday.

Comment by Patricia Cecilia January 2014 permalink
Singing antiphon verses as a choir
Salieri, I wish there was a super-thank button. You have taken the time to phrase the idea most eloquently, mille remerciements. CharlesW, My phrase is, "No robo-chanters, please!" Alternately, if they fall into the too-metrical cadentia…

Comment by Patricia Cecilia January 2014 permalink
Singing antiphon verses as a choir
I'm like Carl. I would even call myself rebellious, in that, despite having read most of the materials on the development of the notation in the LU and on chironomy, I mainly ignore the vertical episemas and the counting-backwards business and…

Comment by Patricia Cecilia January 2014 permalink
Curwen/Kodaly Solfege Hand Signs and Square Notes
Here is Aristotle's Curwen/Kodaly/neumes pdf--so very useful! I thanked him profusely when he first posted it and do so again. (No pun intended :-)

Comment by Patricia Cecilia January 2014 permalink
Taking up a new post
More prayers now that you are actually doing the work!

Comment by Patricia Cecilia December 2013 permalink
Taking up a new post
Prayers offered.

Comment by Patricia Cecilia December 2013 permalink
The mass has ended...
ryand--I know that (in the EF) the practice of entering the sanctuary from the epistle-side door and exiting through the gospel-side door is specified in something--Fortescue, I suspect, thinking about it--as normative at Low Mass. (If there is onl…

Comment by Patricia Cecilia December 2013 permalink
Ave Maria (SATB, a cappella) – a new setting
Lovely piece, David. I will second Julie's observations on altos/mezzos and what woodwind players call 'grateful writing' for them.

Comment by Patricia Cecilia December 2013 permalink

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