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The Best Music for Mass
I agree with Jackson that the traditional Gregorian melodies are within the reach of a congregation, particularly VIII, IX, XI, and XVII which are the ones I have used. Now in order to sing them, you have to be able to SING. Not knowing how to use o…

Comment by davido October 2020 permalink
IntoAccount’s full report on David Haas
It’s so sad “For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.“

Comment by davido October 2020 permalink
Pedaling help needed on two hymns
I can look at these tmr, but as I remember, I either have to do some toe-toe substituting, or lifting a foot to cover some of those large bass intervals

Comment by davido September 2020 permalink
Ordo 2020: The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross
That’s because the psalter and the mass texts predated the Vulgate. But the translation for each liturgical text was standard throughout the Latin world. That’s what’s ridiculous, we all speak English and if almost the whole Anglophone could use th…

Comment by davido September 2020 permalink
Hymn text: prayer of St. Michael the Archangel
There’s nothing wrong with that treatment of power

Comment by davido September 2020 permalink
GrandOrgue sample sets
I got mine working, but the speakers in our gym don’t like anything below middle C :(

Comment by davido September 2020 permalink
Communion Solo Organ Music
Check out this guy’s videos for ideas. He posts tons of stuff that he plays for daily mass: https://www.youtube.com/user/wurlic300 He posts a lot of his videos with links to IMSLP scores on the Facebook group “The Roman Catholic Organist’s Page” I …

Comment by davido August 2020 permalink
Thank You to Good Accompanists Everywhere!
jcr, that was a truly wonderful accompanist!

Comment by davido August 2020 permalink
Our National Anthem (SATB Hymn) : Tribute to Freedom : Do Not Let It Die
Interesting. Was your thought on these issues influence by your homeschool education? A college/university education? Your own reading? Etc

Comment by davido August 2020 permalink
beginners' intonation training apps?
sergeantedward, is your research thesis available?

Comment by davido August 2020 permalink
beginners' intonation training apps?
This might be the wrong approach for a singer with intonation problems. Unless the singer has hearing loss, intonation problems are the result of faulty vocal technique, issues which need instruction to resolve. The human body will try very hard to…

Comment by davido August 2020 permalink
Our National Anthem (SATB Hymn) : Tribute to Freedom : Do Not Let It Die
I’m curious as to how many folks critical of US history/patriotism are millennials and/or were educated in public school? Conservative voices argue that the negative outlook on America’s founding has been spread by liberal/socialist teachers in pub…

Comment by davido August 2020 permalink
Our National Anthem (SATB Hymn) : Tribute to Freedom : Do Not Let It Die
I wish I could avoid all the American patriotic songs at mass. It is a Roman Catholic Church, not an American church.

Comment by davido August 2020 permalink
Our National Anthem (SATB Hymn) : Tribute to Freedom : Do Not Let It Die
Schonberg it’s part of the larger BLM movement which advocates the kneeling to protest the anthem, the flag, etc which has now been wholeheartedly adopted by major US sports leagues

Comment by davido August 2020 permalink
Our National Anthem (SATB Hymn) : Tribute to Freedom : Do Not Let It Die
I’m an ideologue. I admit it. I propound the ideology of the Holy Catholic Church. Also, charity, fraternity, unity, patriotism, beauty, truth, goodness etc, etc. And John Rutter writes crappy music. There, that should be enough to get me blacklis…

Comment by davido August 2020 permalink
Our National Anthem (SATB Hymn) : Tribute to Freedom : Do Not Let It Die
David the King killed Uriah the Hittite, and yet the psalms are the music of all of Judeo-Christian history. The gross injustice argument doesn’t hold water for Haas, Key, or King David.

Comment by davido August 2020 permalink
Our National Anthem (SATB Hymn) : Tribute to Freedom : Do Not Let It Die
Is the black lives matter rant over now? We fought a civil war over this: abolitionists won. We fought the KKK over this, and the Klan lost. A black man ran for president: and he won! None of which would have been possible without the seed of libert…

Comment by davido August 2020 permalink
Our National Anthem (SATB Hymn) : Tribute to Freedom : Do Not Let It Die
I’ve never heard that 5th verse. Is that Francis Scott Key?

Comment by davido August 2020 permalink
ICEL Hymns for the Liturgy of the Hours, Second Edition
ICEL is producing these translations on behalf of the people of God. There has never been an official translation of these official texts (50 years overdue) why do they want to limit their use now? It’s like the USCCB “copyrighting” the Bible! It se…

Comment by davido August 2020 permalink
Tutorial: Gregorian chant in MuseScore.
Stemmed vs stemless is a taste thing. The benefit to stemmed is that it translates into metrical value, with some indication of motion. It’s sort of old solesmes, but the in my experience the stemless notation lends itself to a vagueness of interpre…

Comment by davido August 2020 permalink
ICEL Hymns for the Liturgy of the Hours, Second Edition
Wow, sure seems like they don’t care if anyone uses the stuff. Things don’t change much. But I guess it doesn’t matter since for the foreseeable future churches are closed and/or bishops tell their people they aren’t allowed to sing God’s praises T…

Comment by davido August 2020 permalink
ICEL Hymns for the Liturgy of the Hours, Second Edition
I see that the hymns were approved by Rome back on May 14. When can we get these texts so that we can begin to set them to music? It would be ideal to be able to include these official texts in any forthcoming hymnals.

Comment by davido August 2020 permalink
The Choir Organ MIDI Module
Click on the link above, Noel’s website explains the whole thing

Comment by davido July 2020 permalink
Good Sites for Chant Notation?
Use MuseScore. Lilypond is all text driven and a steep learning curve. If you do write Lilypond code, do it in Frescobaldi

Comment by davido July 2020 permalink
Votive Mass of the Passion
GIA had editorialized out the possibility of “ills” in the next world. Don’t want to get in the way of rainbows, sunshine, and my little ponies.

Comment by davido July 2020 permalink
New Bishop in Cleveland... Again
Good guy, originally from our Diocese of Harrisburg

Comment by davido July 2020 permalink
Life in Coronatide
Stop with the nonsense about number of cases. The danger is the fatality rate which, as has been pointed out several times in this thread, is incredibly low among young people and is falling. Opinions on covid in these USA shake down exactly along …

Comment by davido July 2020 permalink
Jubilate Deo Booklet
Chonak, are the jubilate deo recordings still available? I would like to hear them but am getting a “forbidden” link

Comment by davido July 2020 permalink
A bit of research, please. (communion hymn survey)
I like the Neale translation of Adoro te because it is not too poetic. The original Latin is not very flowery. I'm not a Latin expert, but it seems rather short and to the point, decidedly non-flowery. I find the Pousey-Douglas and the GMH Ado…

Comment by davido July 2020 permalink
ILP's Credo Hymnal
The ILP psalms are MUCH worse than respond and acclaim. The verses are frequently fully written out/through composed, the accompaniments are difficult and the responses dramatic or campy. I appreciate the work Vince is doing in providing a third opt…

Comment by davido July 2020 permalink

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