Richard Mix

A Mighty Fortress/ EIN’ FESTE BURG
Continuing my morning reading (Cr. Russel's From Serra to Sancho) I now find George Simpson's account of a 1842 visit to Santa Barbara: "In the music gallery was a small but well-tuned organ [one of the only such in 19c California] on…

Comment by Richard Mix July 22 permalink
A Mighty Fortress/ EIN’ FESTE BURG
A Mighty Fortress is no. 339 in GIA's The Catholic Community Hymnal. Theologically sound? Yes, on the whole. We used to sing it, until one priest insisted on the very Catholic custom of ending the Introit after the first stanza ;-)

Comment by Richard Mix July 22 permalink
Best/Favorite English or Latin choral pieces from the "English" tradition: Go!
Besides searching for English composers on CPDL you can see what anthology editors have chosen: Category:Anthem collections includes NCAB. I've though of starting a thread about how much of such collections actually get sung. I estimate we'…

Comment by Richard Mix July 22 permalink
Volunteer Choir leaders needing guidance
Don't know the song in question, but I see Jesus' Body broken and shared at least once a week.

Comment by Richard Mix July 19 permalink
I gave up and became a truck driver.
after Church-backed institutions invested huge dollar amounts in their training. Snort! On the contrary, I think St David's has hugely benefited from my Methodist, Lutheran & Anglican apprenticeships, suggesting it's usually the other …

Comment by Richard Mix July 16 permalink
Christmas Hymns
I too lean more to Holst than Darke, but while I'm usually on board with Alice Parker, Liam will perhaps forgive me if I say that arrangement strikes me as gilding-the-lily-by-numbers. We do ITBM straight with a slight reharmonization & des…

Comment by Richard Mix July 7 permalink
Order of Malta music
Or you could ask Google. Took me about 15 seconds.

Comment by Richard Mix July 2 permalink
"Amazing grace" in French?
The first version certainly needs a shoehorn if not violence on a Cinderella stepsister scale, and the risible second is obviously with non-francophones. But it's amazing how many results Google brings up; this isn't so terrible at all: G…

Comment by Richard Mix July 2 permalink
Simple Ave Maris Stella?
Not the requested simple, but here are two 'difficult' versions in a handout I made for an audience sing-along.

Comment by Richard Mix June 30 permalink
A funny thing happened while I was reading the GIRM...
who take For a second I thought I must have missed some draft using the subjunctive!

Comment by Richard Mix June 25 permalink
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The Antico print is indeed missing from IMSLP. What do you consider the shortcomings?

Comment by Richard Mix June 22 permalink
How to Improve Atonal Singbacks for my Choir Auditions?
Interval drilling is fine, but I suggest you combine it with actual music. There's an immense amount you can learn from mastering just one of Webern's Lieder, or the alto solo from Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles.

Comment by Richard Mix June 22 permalink
gabc gregoriocolor red notes?
Not what was originally requested, but a more historical approach that also reinforces the idea of clefs was to use colored staff lines. Is this supported?

Comment by Richard Mix June 10 permalink
Corpus Christi 2026
St David of Wales, Richmond CA At the Lamb's high Feast SALZBURG Deutsche Messe Contemplate the Bread of Angels Tallis: Verily, verily I say unto you Qui manducat (American Gradual) O food to pilgrims INNSBRUCK Holy God GROSSER GOTT

Comment by Richard Mix June 5 permalink
Orlande De Lassus - Sperent in te omnes
Try IMSLP

Comment by Richard Mix June 3 permalink
CPDL Down?
Thanks for the update! Cloudflare is keeping me out of the forums, but I've been able to make a few edits in the main space. I'm not sure what went wrong with my attempt to add a new edition, though.

Comment by Richard Mix May 26 permalink
CPDL Down?
The backup sites are working well for now, but I can no longer get to the forum pages. Chuck, do you have any recent updates?

Comment by Richard Mix May 22 permalink
Pre-2010 Mass settings for SATB
We have some Deutsche Messen and suspect you're near our neighborhood in the Bay Area. Ann Callaway has written a couple of Lutheran Services which use the old texts too.

Comment by Richard Mix May 22 permalink
Two part renaissance motets for beginners
The Ockeghem meant may be the 2vv parts of the Requiem, parts of the Kyrie and Sicut cervus. With a few (mostly English) exceptions, bicinia are for adjacent ranges and won't help you with a mixed chorus. You might be much better off with 4vv h…

Comment by Richard Mix May 18 permalink
New mass setting WIP
My preference is for less piano-centric settings, but neat Kyrie! A couple of minor details: the altos are not in an efficient register for Sanctus. Why not score as earlier at "in gloria Dei Patris"? 2) At "miserere nobis" I…

Comment by Richard Mix May 15 permalink
Music Suggestions for the Feast of St Maria Goretti
I can second those recommendations: we read through both Palestrina last night.

Comment by Richard Mix May 13 permalink
Gaude Mater Polonia Poetic Translation
"…not savor," is fine I guess, but Your brutal deeds and cruelty seems the obvious solution.

Comment by Richard Mix May 6 permalink
Gaude Mater Polonia Poetic Translation
Just swap "cruel" & "brutal".

Comment by Richard Mix May 5 permalink
Women Cantors EF Divine Office
If exceptions are going to be carved out anyway, then "someone who could be a cleric should do the task even if not able to become a cleric either because of something like …" Sex, maybe?

Comment by Richard Mix May 4 permalink
Transitus Service
I thought Transitus was either a euphemism for the Feast or a disambiguation from the Sept. 17 Impressionis Sacrorum Stigmatum in Corpore S. Francisci, but one learns something every day. What sort of lineup are you contemplating? I don't thi…

Comment by Richard Mix April 24 permalink
Do congregations prefer the contemporary slop?
One never knows though. I filled in for our Saturday Vigil and had to make a face and cup an ear before "At the Lamb's high Feast" finally got going.

Comment by Richard Mix April 20 permalink
new choir members
For our spoken Creed I'm tempted to print up …consubstantial with the Father; NB through him all things were made. Everyone though, I'm pretty sure, would think "Nota bene", and we'd still miss the paragraph break before &q…

Comment by Richard Mix April 20 permalink
Text: VIVAT, VIVAT LEO!
Yikes! As long as it won't fit a single page it's a good idea to write out the first strain twice, without a repeat sign. But yes, it's an appealing tune.

Comment by Richard Mix April 18 permalink
You deny the council!
It indeed would seem that the reformers have something to do with vernacular traditions (I just been investigating Czech Bible translations, having programed Dvořák for Misericordia.) English Wikipedia has this on Italian Bibles.

Comment by Richard Mix April 13 permalink
Any articles/essays?
I always try to find a few words that fit in 4 lines: Apr. 5 Easter Sunday Callaway: Mary at the Tomb+ Ann Callaway’s anthem, written this March and premiered at St. Luke’s in Walnut Creek earlier this morning, sets John 20:11-18, that is, the…

Comment by Richard Mix April 13 permalink

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