Fr. Matthew Spencer

Square Note App is now free
@francis As @ServiamScores mentiones, there are zoom in and zoom out buttons on the toolbar over the chant, allowing you to view the chant at a comfortable size.

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer October 2020 permalink
Square Note App is now free
@Don9of11, sorry the 1.9.1 update on Android which makes it free is taking a long time to be approved by Google. Price change to free should be effective in the next couple of days hopefully. But if you send me an email, I'll give you a redempt…

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer October 2020 permalink
Square Note Gregorian Chant App
@KittyMalkin: We have ferial Masses on our list, though we're adding chants in order of priority of liturgical place and how many people have requested them, and so far our priority list for the first major update will include: improving the Sa…

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer April 2017 permalink
Square Note Gregorian Chant App
Vilyanor: technically I think it would be possible to support alternate tunings, though I'm not sure how much work it would be to implement. Let me look into it, and if it seems feasible, I'll add it to our wishlist of features. Thanks for…

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer April 2017 permalink
Square Note Gregorian Chant App
CHGriffen: yes, sorry, chonak is right, the marketshare for Windows Phone is under 1% and dropping, just can't justify creating and maintaining the app on a platform with such a small user base at this point.

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer April 2017 permalink
Square Note Gregorian Chant App
Thank you all! rogue63: Hoping to have ordinaries in there very soon. donr: Thanks for the ideas. I'll see what I can do about volume, should be simple to amp that up a bit. See below regarding pitch. matthewj: Would an extra prayer count!? …

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer April 2017 permalink
Square Note Gregorian Chant App
Thanks all, grateful for the positive feedback and any and all constructive criticism too. Priestboi: just sent you a PM rogue63: I agree. This app is just a small contribution to a much larger effort to make sacred music more accessible and appro…

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer April 2017 permalink
Square Note Gregorian Chant App
Hi David: yes.

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer April 2017 permalink
Square Note Gregorian Chant App
Thanks Ben, I think the link is fixed now. David: coming very soon. Thanks!

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer April 2017 permalink
Square Note: A Gregorian Chant App
Adam, no, they're all from GregoBase, imported into a google sheets doc for collaboration and processing, then exported via script to JSON. Unfortunately some manual tweaking is still necessary at the time being for some of the gabc as my chant…

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer July 2016 permalink
Square Note: A Gregorian Chant App
Right now the chants are packaged with the app in a few JSON files that get imported into a SQLite database for use at runtime. In theory it wouldn't be that hard to expand the chants available or make the collections editable or updatable. Jus…

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer July 2016 permalink
Square Note: A Gregorian Chant App
Ben, I'm still trying to figure out the best way to do something like that, though I haven't decided the best route to take for it. Certainly within the realm of possibility though! Actually, the architecture allows for on the fly editing…

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer July 2016 permalink
Square Note: A Gregorian Chant App
TimTheEnchanter: Yes, it sure will, didn't do it in the video because it would've gone sideways, but it will adapt to any screen size and orientation.

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer July 2016 permalink
JavaScript Chant Library
Hi Ben, thanks for your feedback! Custom tags via html5 hooks are already in the works, mostly I'm just trying to figure out an elegant way to allow for customizing the chant output without having tons of attributes or complicated html. But on…

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer February 2016 permalink
The moment you've all been waiting for...simple Spanish Mass chants à la ICEL!
ronkrisman, I too was chuckling at "ICEL" Spanish chants, but I don't think SopranoViolin meant they were rendered from the English. Though I am fluent in Spanish, it is not my first language...certainly the settings I have done mys…

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer November 2014 permalink
The moment you've all been waiting for...simple Spanish Mass chants à la ICEL!
ryand, those are great, it's been a long time since I've stopped by these forums. Attached are some memorial acclamation settings, though the formatting could be improved and I have no idea how close the text will be to the final approved…

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer November 2014 permalink
The moment you've all been waiting for...simple Spanish Mass chants à la ICEL!
I did some of the Spanish ordinary settings a few years back. You can find some here: http://marello.org/simplex/collections/ordinary-i/. The memorial acclamations I did separately but never posted them. I'm sure I have them around here somewhe…

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer November 2014 permalink
Marello.org
Sorry about that: the last site update messed up the attachment links. It should all be working correctly again now. Let me know if you have any more trouble with it. matthew@osjoseph.org Blessings.

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer December 2012 permalink
Software: How do you write your gregorian chant?
I started with InDesign + Caeciliae. After setting chant pieces that spanned several pages though, I found that I was spending more time correcting layout and pagination than I was on the chant itself. So I wrote my own layout program...my screen lo…

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer December 2012 permalink
Does anyone know how to make an accent on æ ? AE ae aé AÉ
For me it is not stylistic preference that dictates the use of the ash (æ), but 1) accurately reproducing chant texts from different periods of time, and 2) like JMO I find æ to more easily be automatically sung as a single syllable. Probably if I w…

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer March 2012 permalink
Does anyone know how to make an accent on æ ? AE ae aé AÉ
BTW, here's the uppercase variant: Ǽ (Unicode 01FD)

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer March 2012 permalink
Does anyone know how to make an accent on æ ? AE ae aé AÉ
Most well made and reasonably complete fonts should support it, including most of the common fonts. No special application is required, as long as it supports Unicode characters (like Word, Pages, and most other word processing apps these days). He…

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer March 2012 permalink
Situation of Sacred Music down in Mexico
This is wonderful news! I'm so happy to learn of the conference and the movement it represents.

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer March 2012 permalink
Spanish Gloria
ClaireH, finding a decent Gloria in Spanish has been so hard for so many choirs. When I was helping a handful of Spanish choirs in a parish a few years back, we simply couldn't find a single published Gloria that used the straight text from the…

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer March 2012 permalink
Spanish Chant: Advent Mass II
benedictgal, sorry, didn't get to it before the weekend! :-(

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer March 2012 permalink
Spanish Chant: Advent Mass II
Actually I have completed the introit, offertory, and communion antiphons for Advent through Easter season of the Simplex. I have done March 19, March 25, and nearly all of the various Masses for Ordinary Time. I'm just juggling so many things …

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer February 2012 permalink
Chant ordinaries layout help?
My pleasure! I'm trying to figure out an easy way to do publishing of square note and modern styles for all those needing Spanish propers in both styles, so hopefully this is just the beginning...

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer February 2012 permalink
Chant ordinaries layout help?
Claire, Thanks for the suggestions. I will consider them when I find time to start releasing modern notation versions along with the square note versions. The above PDF contains the Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei...perhaps you didn't s…

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer February 2012 permalink
Chant ordinaries layout help?
Claire, I was messing around with trying to generate modern notation of all of the scores I've already done in chant. It's still pretty experimental, but the attached PDF is an attempt to generate the modern notation from the chant. (The m…

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer February 2012 permalink
Gregorio Web App with GUI - "Illuminare Score Editor"
This is awesome!

Comment by Fr. Matthew Spencer January 2012 permalink

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