davido

Advice needed: auditions and job applications
Find a different job than music. You don’t want to work every weekend.

Comment by davido September 2025 permalink
St. Pius X Hymnal (Dr. Marier et al.)
How many?

Comment by davido September 2025 permalink
printer or musician?
Lutheran church I attended as a kid printed a bulletin each week, listed the hymn and service music numbers, scripture reading references, and the rest of the leaflet was the announcements. Helped new folks find the right page in the hymnbook, but w…

Comment by davido September 2025 permalink
* When do you just give up?
Charles if you are in diocese of Buffalo NY, you should make some connections with priests and music directors in Rochester NY. I know many wonderful people there who lead or sponsor solid music programs.

Comment by davido September 2025 permalink
GABC chants with English interlinear translations
In Paradisum (with lengthenings from Source and Summit) annotation: Ant annotation: 7 %% (c3) IN[Into](e) pa(g)ra[paradise](h)dí(i)sum(i) *(,) de[conducted-be](i)dú(j)cant(i) te[thou](h) An[by-Angels:](g)ge(hi)li:(i) (;) in[upon](f) tu[thy](h)o(h…

Comment by davido September 2025 permalink
Handbells?
Which purpose is what? If our offering has no value, then why do we go to mass? Of course a pontifical mass is more special than a simple low mass, and a mass with full choirs in a cathedral is more special than a simple weekday mass with a couple …

Comment by davido September 2025 permalink
Handbells?
That’s iconoclast nonsense. I realize that people who like handbells are often at church for the feels more than the dogmatic theology, but if you follow your reasoning through, you’re gonna wipe out music entirely.

Comment by davido September 2025 permalink
History of Liturgical Music during the Romantic Era (~1800-1910)
You covered the heavy hitters. There were many other romantic composers of church music, but not worth investigating at the level you are teaching. Solesmes chant is music of the Romantic era. Or is an important piece in understanding romantic litu…

Comment by davido September 2025 permalink
Question: What is "true" Gregorian chant? Solesmes vs. Roman
Jax, I think you are asking about the vocal technique and musical ‘affect’ as much as about what notes to sing? The monks (with untrained voices) often sing in a half voice style which they teach as the “correct” way to sing chant. The way they teac…

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Perichoresis and Hassler's Secunda
Or ‘Lord of the Dance.’

Comment by davido September 2025 permalink
Electric vs Acoustic Piano
Buy a real piano. You can get a new Yamaha for a few thousand dollars. Or find a piano retailer near you. They often refurbish older instruments, good as new for tens of thousands less. Or get a free or almost free piano. Have a tuner you trust insp…

Comment by davido August 2025 permalink
Christmas duets for Soprano/Alto
Ave Maria duet in A major, Camille Saint-Saens Paris Angelicus, Cesar Frank (see free gig music . Com for duet score) You will find these on a lot of Christmas albums

Comment by davido August 2025 permalink
Christmas & Advent Songs for Limited Rehearsal Time?
It would be useful to know what you are terming “older” and” younger”. What grade levels or ages are you working with?

Comment by davido August 2025 permalink
New USCCB Guidelines on "Publishing" Ritual Texts (incl. Psalm settings)
Let’s summarize and lay this out clearly for the people who lurk and learn from this forum. We’ll call this story: PAY-TO-PRAY - The bishops published a new (lousy) translation of the Bible, copyrighted it, and require it to be used in all liturgi…

Comment by davido August 2025 permalink
English Polyphonic Mass
That’s a real shame. I would like to use the work

Comment by davido August 2025 permalink
English Polyphonic Mass
Yep. That’s exactly what I am looking for.

Comment by davido August 2025 permalink
New USCCB Guidelines on "Publishing" Ritual Texts (incl. Psalm settings)
These people have already copyrighted the Bible to give themselves a revenue stream. Do you expect anything less?

Comment by davido August 2025 permalink
New St. Basil Hymnal
Looks like Hal Leonard has copyright now, but the positive is, they have copies available! https://www.halleonard.com/product/409177/the-new-saint-basil-hymnal-spiral https://www.halleonard.com/product/409152/the-new-saint-basil-hymnal

Comment by davido August 2025 permalink
New Eucharistic Adoration Rite
What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful.

Comment by davido August 2025 permalink
New Eucharistic Adoration Rite
There is no response. The vesicle and response “you have given them bread from heaven” is simply gone with no replacement. There is a new translation for the priest’s prayer as Rich Enough has said above. Otherwise, nothing worth buying the new bo…

Comment by davido August 2025 permalink
Very easy pieces for middle school boys' choir?
I’ve had success with boys that age liking “Christ Enthroned in Highest Heaven” I always want to teach middle school boys “He who would valiant be”

Comment by davido August 2025 permalink
Traditional Hymnal with Funeral Fare?
JourneySongs is the other resource that comes to mind. It’s not a fat trimming book, it’s a wade-carefully-through-these-waters book. Maybe take a long look at Ignatius pew missal. It’s a one year rental, so it kicks the hymnal issue down the road…

Comment by davido July 2025 permalink
Traditional Hymnal with Funeral Fare?
Don’t do it. Don’t go on supporting the publishing of Mass of Creation.

Comment by davido July 2025 permalink
Gelineau psalms discussion
I never liked the Gelineau psalms. They struck me as a poor man’s recitative with trendy harmonies. I first encountered them as a cantor in grad school and found the confusing notation so off-putting that I’m sure it has colored my perception of t…

Comment by davido July 2025 permalink
The Licensing of the Revised grail Psalter
How could USCCB handle the bad press of this headline going viral on Catholic media: “USCCB sues Catholic composers for gifting free musical compositions to the church.” Just do it. Call the bluff.

Comment by davido July 2025 permalink
Traditional Hymnal with Funeral Fare?
Print those songs in a worship aid and buy the best hymnal (St Michael). Buy OneLicense subscription for your worship aid, but if it is too expensive, build its cost into the funeral fees.

Comment by davido July 2025 permalink
Hymns "Every Catholic Child Should Know"
The post-conciliar era presents the opportunity to reform the “Catholic core” to only the best hymns.

Comment by davido July 2025 permalink
Choir rooms
Matthew, maybe search under school supplies. I recently added a white board with 5 line staves to my room, and it was available in multiple sizes. We used to use the school music classroom which was down the hall from the church. When they built a …

Comment by davido July 2025 permalink
School Masses
I was fortunate to come into a position with a school music teacher who was not Catholic and had no part in the school Mass. I have responsibility for the music for school Masses and report to the pastor. This has not changed with subsequent music t…

Comment by davido July 2025 permalink
Hymns "Every Catholic Child Should Know"
Lol, Jubilate Deo is nice, but Pius VI wasn’t a church musician and people are clearly able to learn a whole lot more music than that. If we teach people that church music is just Jubilate Deo and Graduale Simplex, we are doing them and ourselves a …

Comment by davido July 2025 permalink

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