GerardH

String Quartet Wedding Prelude
Musicians' choice is the correct answer. Let them play from their standards.

Comment by GerardH February 2025 permalink
Missa brevis
Page 1, bar 18: shouldn't the word be 'glorify', not 'worship'?

Comment by GerardH February 2025 permalink
Palestrina 2025
@Viola try O Domine Jesu Christe a 4. Mostly homophonic, good for Lent. Jesu dulcis memoria is good too, but I'm fairly certain all available editions have mistakenly switched the alto and tenor parts. It is much more effective with the alto …

Comment by GerardH February 2025 permalink
Motet list resources for Sundays throughout the year
Don't get me wrong, the CPDL pages are still useful, but they aren't extensive. As an example, Tallis' A new commandment would be perfectly suitable for Maundy Thursday (Mandatum antiphon) or 7 OT Year C (it's the lectionary Alle…

Comment by GerardH January 2025 permalink
Motet list resources for Sundays throughout the year
@CGM I'm getting an error on that link to your website. Great resources

Comment by GerardH January 2025 permalink
Motet list resources for Sundays throughout the year
I think it must have been the CRCCM site - thanks all!

Comment by GerardH January 2025 permalink
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (Baptism of the Lord)
Sorry to nitpick - you may judge for yourself how far to take the perfectionism - but there are still several issues. Stanza 1 lines 4 and 6, and stanza 2 line 2 still have seven syllables, not six. Try singing them to THIRD MODE MELODY (Tallis, wh…

Comment by GerardH January 2025 permalink
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (Baptism of the Lord)
Rhyming is an improvement (as is currently being discussed elsewhere about Benediction hymns), but you've fallen into a pitfall of not following the original meter. I heard the voice uses the meter 8686D, i.e. the lines alternate eight and six …

Comment by GerardH January 2025 permalink
Ash Wednesday at the Vatican - Parce Domine
@jefflokanata, it's listed here as being included in his Terzo Libro Dei Mottetti, published by Edizioni Cappella Sistina. Elsewhere on the website it says "To order books and CDs write to: info@fondazionebartolucci.it"

Comment by GerardH January 2025 permalink
Hymn for the Feast of the Presentation-Candlemas
Bumping for the upcoming feast. @Kathy, what is the latest on permission for this text? Can it be licensed for use through OneLicense?

Comment by GerardH January 2025 permalink
Communion hymn selection during the Christmas season
As a guide, the Communion Chant/Antiphon, which is the preferred text for communion at any given Mass, is rarely explicitly Eucharistic. Choose something seasonally appropriate unless there's nothing to choose from, then default to something Eu…

Comment by GerardH December 2024 permalink
Secular, often dull, texts pointed for Anglican chant
Reviving this thread to direct forum users to some seasonally appropriate additions to the genre.

Comment by GerardH December 2024 permalink
Baroque-Style Organ Chorale Preludes
Try looking at Denis Bédard's compositions. His Postlude on Woodlands has a Baroque-ish fugue. Dr Kris Rizzotto just posted a rather delightful Trio on Here I Am, Lord, and has plenty of other hymn-related pieces in various styles.

Comment by GerardH December 2024 permalink
Anyone know a hymn tune for this text? ("The Star of Morn to Night Succeeds")
Bravo! I like how the beginning of the second tune feels like a modulation to the relative major. Revisiting my old comment, I think I mistyped and meant to put ST COLUMBA, not ST THOMAS!

Comment by GerardH December 2024 permalink
Singing Christmas Vigil Readings
The 1974 Graduale simply labels the two tones 'Lectio I' and 'Lectio II vel unica ante Evangelium'. It also says that any tone accepted in practice may be chosen, and that the first tone may be used instead of the second. Basica…

Comment by GerardH December 2024 permalink
Popular Tune for Children of the Heav'nly Father
'Christ be with me' is the same meter; not upbeat, but DEIDRE or GARTAN? No idea where you'd start to look for anything from early rock or pop.

Comment by GerardH December 2024 permalink
Suggestions for Christmas Offertory Hymns?
Just do a carol - there are so many good options

Comment by GerardH December 2024 permalink
matching antiphon setting to psalm tone
Let's have a look at the first few antiphons in the 4-week psalter from the collection. -- EP1 Antiphon 1: No key signature so Do will be C, final on E = Mi, therefore mode 3 or 4 (Phrygian and Hypophrygian). While the melody stays above the f…

Comment by GerardH December 2024 permalink
matching antiphon setting to psalm tone
Yes, looking at the antiphons now (I wasn't able to previously), they are both in mode 1

Comment by GerardH December 2024 permalink
matching antiphon setting to psalm tone
What Andrew said, but also: 5. Is the second above the final a major or minor second? Then * if (5) the second is minor, it's 3 or 4; otherwise it's 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, or 8

Comment by GerardH December 2024 permalink
Latin Christmas Motet
The watermarked sample score on https://www.carus-verlag.com/en/music-scores-and-recordings/albrechtsberger-christmas-motet-9106400.html might be your only option.

Comment by GerardH December 2024 permalink
"Deus Israel" Introit Translation
The 1965 Roman Missal renders it thus: May the God of Israel join you together; and may he be with you, who was merciful to two only children: and now, O Lord, make them bless you more fully. (P. T. Alleluia, alleluia). Ps. 127, 1 Blessed are all w…

Comment by GerardH December 2024 permalink
Asperges Source Manuscripts
@a_f_hawkins Sometimes I forget that there are parts of the world which don't refer to notes as breves, semibreves, minims, crotchets, quavers and semiquavers! A breve is brief compared to a longa - I'm guessing those two were the original…

Comment by GerardH December 2024 permalink
Asperges Source Manuscripts
@OMagnumMysterium, try the 1845 edition of Merbecke's book (available on IMSLP). The text you quote, modernised is below. I'm not sure what strene or prycke are supposed to mean - perhaps this paper (behind paywall) will shed some light. …

Comment by GerardH December 2024 permalink
Asperges Source Manuscripts
I've posted an answer, but it's awaiting moderation - paging @chonak

Comment by GerardH December 2024 permalink
Pope Francis' Sacred Heart Encyclical
There are a number of Latin chant hymns for the Sacred Heart. It would be a matter of translating them into a metered poetic translation and then marrying it to a traditional hymn tune. Which reminds me that All ye that seek for comfort sure which …

Comment by GerardH December 2024 permalink
3 or 4 part polyphony for the Holy Trinity
I've also found a dearth of worthwhile music for Trinity. We have done the Tchaikovsky as Richard has already linked, and Samuel Webbe Sr's Benedicimus Deum coeli. Last year we did Rutter's Cantate Domino, but that divides into eight …

Comment by GerardH December 2024 permalink
Asperges Source Manuscripts
It looks like Canto Ambrosiano is now at cantoambrosiano.altervista.org. The Asperges you started with is on page 629 of the Antiphonale Missarum Mediolanensis (1935), although that source might too recent for your needs.

Comment by GerardH December 2024 permalink
Pope Francis' Sacred Heart Encyclical
Australian poet/composer duo James McAuley and Richard Connolly wrote an excellent hymn to the Sacred Heart, Jesus, in your heart we find. It's still very popular down under.

Comment by GerardH December 2024 permalink
Song of Farewell and In Paradisum
The gradual also allows (for pastoral reasons) for one of the responsories given at the final commendation to be used at the entrance before the introit - so the Subvenite may occupy its traditional place. I have been instructed to take these two o…

Comment by GerardH November 2024 permalink

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