a_f_hawkins

Help - temporary organ
Skrabl also make nice portative organs in kits or ready built, in Slovenia and the UK, as well as larger installations. https://www.skrabl.uk/gallery?pgid=k7kjfzr3-a37efbb2-fddd-4588-a16c-bab8f3e9ccc5 https://www.skrabl.uk/for-sale

Comment by a_f_hawkins December 7 permalink
Lourdes hymn, French refrain rhythm, "hearts on fire" text
FSSPmusic has posted what the OP asked for, Marier HP&SC has different words. Fr Gainget supplied 120 verses in French, there is an abundance of text to choose from. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6137755t/f1.item.r=Cantique-récit+de+l&#…

Comment by a_f_hawkins December 4 permalink
HYMN OF THE MONTH – December: Silent Night
The First Nowell appears in the Westminster Hymnal (1940), attribution : Old English Traditional

Comment by a_f_hawkins November 30 permalink
Translations, choices, and complaints
I'm in an English arch diocese. The Missal texts were intended for 'if not sung', and lack psalms to extend the chant, but USCCB's Missal version approves singing them (the rest of the world afaik does not). A good, but not offic…

Comment by a_f_hawkins November 24 permalink
Translations, choices, and complaints
To point 3 - this was a deliberate response to VII calling for a wider selection of biblical texts. In the case of the Communion antiphon, there is generally a choice, one based on the traditional selection from (usually) a psalm, and the other a ph…

Comment by a_f_hawkins November 24 permalink
Wedding Procedure
Marriage as a sacrament is governed by Canon Law, but as a legal contract by civil law. Since the essence of both is a promise made to each of the parties by the other, the procedures necessarily vary from place to place, and since they have done so…

Comment by a_f_hawkins November 23 permalink
How common is a Sung 6:00 am Christmas Day Mass, particularly in the EF?
Fortescue in the 1919 edition OTOH wrotePeople are allowed to receive Holy Communion at the midnight Mass, unless the bishop, for some reason, forbids this. If they do so there is no special rule concerning the Eucharistic fast. so there is no spec…

Comment by a_f_hawkins November 19 permalink
Alleluia verses in the Liber Cantualis
{I did post in purple} Yes the rubrics are ambiguous, and those in the official musical sources, GR and GS, are not identical with lectionary. However, GS indicates that in general verses may be sung by choir or cantor, and it is the antiphons which…

Comment by a_f_hawkins November 18 permalink
Alleluia verses in the Liber Cantualis
I am SHOCKED that you should call for ignoring a liturgical directive.

Comment by a_f_hawkins November 18 permalink
How do I delete a Draft message?
You have to hover over the draft.

Comment by a_f_hawkins November 18 permalink
Alleluia verses in the Liber Cantualis
You can see the mode 8 chant, here marked D, on p.16 of the current (1973) Graduale Romanum. The ubiquity of the mode 6 triple alleluia is in response toc) The Acclamation Before the Reading of the Gospel 23. The Alleluia or, as the liturgical sea…

Comment by a_f_hawkins November 18 permalink
Name that psalm plainchant tune
the Plainsong Psalter makes extensive use of the abrupt mediationAnd, to repeat myself, is a good reason for not attempting the Procrustean fitting of English texts to chant designed for Latin. We have modern chant styles devised for this, as well a…

Comment by a_f_hawkins November 15 permalink
Name that psalm plainchant tune
From a 2009 thread https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/1880/gregorian-psalmody/p1 a useful article by Bruce E Ford (3rd post) includes But five other patterns that are anomalous in Latin occur in English with great regularity. 5. Náme of …

Comment by a_f_hawkins November 14 permalink
Name that psalm plainchant tune
From the mid 70s for about a decade I went regularly to Sunday Morning Prayer at Westminster Cathedral, and often EPI on Saturday, both of which were in English and congregational using Bevenot tones. I found the tones to have just about enough vari…

Comment by a_f_hawkins November 14 permalink
Name that psalm plainchant tune
Surely in English it should be 'I rejoiced when I heard them say, ...' It shows the difficulty of applying Gregorian tones to accented English.

Comment by a_f_hawkins November 14 permalink
Name that psalm plainchant tune
Dom Laurence Bévenot psalm tone 1

Comment by a_f_hawkins November 13 permalink
Pronunciation of Hebrew words in Church Latin
Most English people voice the s in Joseph, I have never noticed an unvoiced example in 87 years, I think it would stand out.

Comment by a_f_hawkins November 12 permalink
All Souls 2025
p.144 in this https://archive.ccwatershed.org/media/pdfs/16/03/07/16-45-38_0.pdf I can't see it at hymnary.org

Comment by a_f_hawkins November 3 permalink
All Souls 2025
This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db98OLLJC1U

Comment by a_f_hawkins November 3 permalink
Liturgical Music - a compilation of The Three Judgements?
Regarding Liturgiam authenticam it is important to remember that the degree of control which it claimed for CDWDS over vernacular texts was radically changed by Pope Francis. The current position is as in this decree from CDWDS https://press.vatican…

Comment by a_f_hawkins November 3 permalink
Liturgical Music - a compilation of The Three Judgements?
I note that Liturgiam authenticam (2001) said108. Sung texts and liturgical hymns have a particular importance and efficacy. Especially on Sunday, the “Day of the Lord”, the singing of the faithful gathered for the celebration of Holy Mass, no less …

Comment by a_f_hawkins November 2 permalink
We need better (i.e. Catholic) Communion Hymns
SponsaChristi - it is correct to say that the congregation receiving communion at Mass is a relatively new thing, but popes and ecumenical councils have been calling for it century after century. For example the Council of Trent in its 22nd session …

Comment by a_f_hawkins October 28 permalink
Hymns for Doctors of the Church
98michael45 FWIW https://hymnary.org/tune/o_qui_perpetuus

Comment by a_f_hawkins October 25 permalink
Has the Palmer-Burgess Plainchant Gradual been approved for use in the Ordinary Form?
We live in a gratuitously noisy world. But even ancient Rome had laws against carts on the streets at night, it's the world not just 'modern man'.

Comment by a_f_hawkins October 12 permalink
Has the Palmer-Burgess Plainchant Gradual been approved for use in the Ordinary Form?
ServiamScores You can see a few pages here :- https://issuu.com/catholictruthsociety/docs/b._divine_worship_sunday_missal-peo?fr=sNmQyOTEyNjY2MA

Comment by a_f_hawkins October 7 permalink
Music for Adoration
The OP asked about an evening of Adoration, which is obviously a protracted period. For the period of Adoration, between Exposition and Reposition for which there are rubrics, the general rubric is :-Adoration Readings, homily, prayers, songs ad lib…

Comment by a_f_hawkins October 5 permalink
Music for Adoration
Looking at what has been done to Taize chants over the last 40 years, I am inclined to repent having mentioned them. This was music for pilgrims resting on a French hillside in contemplation of the presence of God, I fear Mammon has dug its claws de…

Comment by a_f_hawkins October 4 permalink
Music for Adoration
^Godhead Here in Hiding is a nice choice^. And was probably written for this purpose, unlike its companion pieces by Aquinas for liturgical use on Corpus Christi. I like Taizé style ostinato chant, simple, repetitive. But you do need a nucleus of p…

Comment by a_f_hawkins October 4 permalink
Has the Palmer-Burgess Plainchant Gradual been approved for use in the Ordinary Form?
... the NO which provides only for a responsorial psalm and the alleluia-verse.Agreed, the NO Missal does not provide other sung propers, but GIRM contains the general rubrics and repeatedly refers to GR as the basic source for sung propers. For Co…

Comment by a_f_hawkins October 3 permalink
Space between lines in Illuminare?
Ianudell - you know about the 'notes' z and Z, for linebreaks? example on the third exemplar line here:- https://gregoriochant.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/cheat_sheet#gabc_notation_summary

Comment by a_f_hawkins October 3 permalink

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