Adam Wood

Transposing for Singers
Why on earth would Amazing Grace be sung by a single person?

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Sacred music for Morning Prayer videos
I'm not now a voiceover or radio pro, but vigorously exploring how I might somehow break in to that crowded market (audiobooks, commercials, etc.). If anyone has any thoughts on that I'm all ears! Record popular public-domain books and re…

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Real Piano vs. Synthesized Organ
Theramin.

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Stewards of the Tradition
>>I suspect that more than a few music ministers still give little or no consideration at all to texts. While probably accurate, this is the most totally insane thing I can imagine. >>Hopefully, the BCDW statement will help to change t…

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Fundraising
(1) removes any incentive you have for doing your own fundraising. I'm not sure how (3) is effectively different that (1). (2) is the only reasonable one, in my opinion. Although there is also: 4)Abscond in the middle of the night.

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Stewards of the Tradition
How about a white hymnal?

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Real Piano vs. Synthesized Organ
MJO - and I don't think we are in essential disagreement in any way about this - but I'd add a sound-byte clarification there: The fact that Heaven's beauty makes even the most beautiful earthly creation seem garish and meaningless b…

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Stewards of the Tradition
We could learn a lot from our Eastern brothers and sisters.

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Real Piano vs. Synthesized Organ

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Real Piano vs. Synthesized Organ
I agree in principle with Fr. Krisman. On the other hand, since Jesus and Mary have a continuing life apart from their earthly historical existence, one could argue that they are familiar with the musical styles that came after them, and that they …

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Real Piano vs. Synthesized Organ
I've seen on some organ literature a special note for "Hammond registration." The WEIRD thing is that none of them specify "off."

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Does your parish use the ICEL Missal Chants?
I am thanking the CMMAA CMAA = Church Music Association of America CMMAA = Catholic Mixed Martial Arts Alliance "We're kickin' @$$ and takin' confirmation names!" ------- Sorry for making fun of a typo. I should probab…

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Who sings "Benedicamus Domino"?
He can always sing recto tono That is a very expensive option.

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Stewards of the Tradition
Also, I'd like to amend my earlier statement of: >>Gregorian Chant, polyphony and organ That's three genres to: >>Gregorian chant That's at least three genres.

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Stewards of the Tradition
They seem convinced, as many folk of their stripe, that if they simply mention Benedict, we'll all perk up, behave as if we're being taken seriously and declare it a victory. Don't blame the heretics and crazy people, though. I'…

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Real Piano vs. Synthesized Organ
At the parish I grew up in Jesús played a 12-string guitar.

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Stewards of the Tradition
Someone reading that document and trying to use it to support The Habitual Music of the Roman Rite is fooling themselves. (Like people who use the word "liberal" to mean "radical adherence to a small set of modernist beliefs" r…

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Stewards of the Tradition
>>Gregorian Chant, polyphony and organ That's three genres >>Haas, Haugen, SLJ That's one genre.

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Just.....speechless
Hours. I stay up at night turning them over in my head, turning them and turning them until they come out just right.

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What to say about this?
Something doesn't have to be sacrilegious for it to be an insult. Here is an image of the band being "honored" by the unholy cheeseburger: So, you know - it's pretty much a circus of blasphemy all the way around.

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Just.....speechless
>>Shaker furniture I read something about Shaker music recently that started with some "you might be surprised" blahblah to the effect of how different their musical style is from what you might expect based on the austerity of thei…

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Just.....speechless
>>Adam Wood: Shaker Music in 21st Century American Catholicism ooh ooh - I can do NPM style liturgical scholarship: -Champion a particular style at workshops for several years. ...followed by... -Giving lectures on the cultural and theologic…

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Adam Wood: Mass of the Blessed Fire: Agnus Dei, Sanctus & Kyrie SATB vocal arr's.
(soprano, bar 2 and 4: dotted half Bb, half G, quarter Bb, dotted half Bb, dotted half Bb (hitting "-cy" a beat earlier than the other voices. Not idiomatic, I think. Sacred Harp and Southern Harmony (and other similar traditions) tend to…

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Music Selection Help Needed: Challenging Liturgy Situation
(I hope a little self-promotion may be forgiven...) My own Mass of the Blessed Fire is intentionally unaccompanied and easy to learn and sing. It is based on Early American (specifically, Shaker) music, but is also influenced by Gregorian Chant, an…

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Advice on acquiring a new organ
>>Headless display? You can set up your OS to launch particular programs at startup- in this case, Hauptwerk. You can also set up midi-enabled switches (disguised as draw bars or rocker switches or organ presets or anything else) to activate …

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Advice on acquiring a new organ
>>Far better to get a good digital organ which you can turn on and play without worrying about settings. You can do that with HW, if you know what you are doing. Actually- you could, theoretically, create an HW organ with a headless display …

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Adam Wood: Mass of the Blessed Fire: Agnus Dei, Sanctus & Kyrie SATB vocal arr's.
Sang the Sanctus with my choir last night. Easy. Sounds great. Seems idiomatic. Love it.

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Adam Wood: Mass of the Blessed Fire: Agnus Dei, Sanctus & Kyrie SATB vocal arr's.
I did try an E there in the alto, but then moved it up to the F because the E seemed extremely out of place - I hear this movement in Bb major not F (the key sig. is one flat because that's what Adam had) I actually agonized about the key sigs…

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The most embarrassing thing I've written (what about you?)
Send it to OCP, they would just love it, and you could be one of the next big composers doing Spirit and Song clinics around the country. hahah My greatest fear in airing this stuff is that someone will see it and think it's a good idea...

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The most embarrassing thing I've written (what about you?)
However, a lot depends on where you were and what you were doing in 2006. That could make a world of difference. I was in a Contemporary choir/band that served a Sunday Evening pre-youthgroup Mass. I would occasionally write responsorial psalms. If…

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