Adam Wood

Sacred Music Apologetics
I prefer Opera-sized church...

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Hail to thee, true Body (Ave, verum Corpus)
BTW - Related: I did an English translation of this a while ago as well. The English was well received here at the time, and the SAB harmonization was deemed... not as good as the translation. (I wrote it for my choir in particular, who sings it ver…

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Teaching Gregorian Chant to Children
Be positive. Much to my dismay delight

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Hail to thee, true Body (Ave, verum Corpus)
purple

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Lalemant Propers approved for Liturgical Use
PoJo = WiN

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Teaching Gregorian Chant to Children
Much to my dismay, they are far superior to the adults at this point. I can't fathom what is dismaying about this. Perhaps it's that darn autocorrect again, and you really meant: Much to my dismay It will surprise absolutely no one that

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Sacred Music Apologetics
Advertising and apologetics are not the same thing. Similarly, evangelism and apologetics are not the same thing. Maybe you mean something other than what it sounds like you mean. Perhaps you really mean "Sacred Music Evangelism."

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Ubi Caritas - English Chant Translation
"Try, fail. Try again, fail again. Fail better." -Estragon in Waiting for Godot, S. Beckett

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Ubi Caritas - English Chant Translation
Also- and this is another point wherein I am of a divided mind: The more I learn about hymnody and musical prosody, the more I realize that metrical scrupulosity (by which I mean, the notion that each verse should fit the same number of syllables t…

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Ubi Caritas - English Chant Translation
Obviously any musical translation has to find a balance or compromise between the retention of several different aspects of the original: -the literal sense -the poetic sense -the technical details of the original (rhythm, meter, rhyme) -the musical…

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Teaching Gregorian Chant to Children
http://musicasacra.com/music-pedagogy-for-children/wings/

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Hazards of cutting and pasting job descriptions:
Actually, I think Music Ed, Music Theory, Music History... those are all "degrees in Music." In fact, the LEAST QUALIFYING, ALMOST QUALIFYING degree is probably the one I have, which most closely hews to the stated requirement: BA in Musi…

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Sacred Music Apologetics
I touched on this ever so briefly the other day, and I am currently working on an essay (or several?) for the Cafe that deal with part of this issue, and which are really just part of a growing cluster of thoughts in I have about the nature of disag…

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Catholic Clarihews
When I (literally) die, I request that each of you who knows me write funny poems to comfort my family. I also request that at least one of you talk to the priest who is going to be presiding and request that these funny poems be read during the l…

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Open thread
Does he know any Venetian folk songs?

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Hazards of cutting and pasting job descriptions:
If so, so are mime and square dancing. There ARE no related fields that apply here. Yes and yes, which was my point. Lots of fields are related.

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EWTN Live / Catholic Answers / ?
I will host, write, appear as guest, or script funny poems for anything. I do not have the time to organize, fund raise, convince, cajole, or anything else that is required to take a pipe dream from a reality.

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Lord, Send Out Your Spirit - Peloquin setting
I'm sorry. Let me try again. ::cough cough:: His music.

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Hazards of cutting and pasting job descriptions:
Dance and Theatre are both related fields...

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Lord, Send Out Your Spirit - Peloquin setting
Wait... what's wrong with Mozart? His music.

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NPM 2013 In Washington, DC
if the temperature and humidity were both 90 or above In Central Florida it never would have occurred to us that this phenomenon required a special name.

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Using someone else's refrain/chorus/antiphon with someone else's verses - legal-ness?
Also, Adam Wood, why don't you use a choir loft? Don't have one.

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Catholic Clarihews
These poems have made me literally die laughing. Literally.

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Catholic Clarihews
Wore his hair long, which was flaxen: Did you know me in high school...?

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Catholic Clarihews
Guido of Arezzo Said: "Singers always forget, so My Ut-Re's just the tonic For a modal mnemonic." Thanked by (4): Adam Wood, Adam Wood, Adam Wood, Adam Wood

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Using someone else's refrain/chorus/antiphon with someone else's verses - legal-ness?
Also, we don't sing from the choir loft, and I would never use staples. So, you know- the whole thing seems unrealistic. (For those reasons, in particular.)

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Using someone else's refrain/chorus/antiphon with someone else's verses - legal-ness?
Not as long as the copy of OEW was made with adequate permission. I'd be more worried about the pointing of Psalm 34. I think drawing the pointing would violate RGP's copyright on the text, as well as Solesmes' ownership on small, ho…

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Using someone else's refrain/chorus/antiphon with someone else's verses - legal-ness?
not derivative works (which is what would happen if you alter the verses) still missing the point.

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Catholic Clarihews
futurely love it

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Catholic Clarihews
Oh, I could rhyme of many things, like how your verse translation sings, or how well you find heresy (even when not there, ya see). I only brought up Free and Open because, for laughs, I'm always hopin'

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