Gamba

Need Examples of Sacred Music Portion for Parish Website Re-Design
https://www.stmaryauburn.org/music/ We farmed this out to the diocesan IT guy. I might have done things a bit differently if I was working with an in-house designer who could do my every bidding at once and change it when I changed my mind. Note …

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Litany of Loreto (Litany of the B.M.V.)
Litany of Loreto in English in square notes, maintaining (as far as possible) the melody of the Latin (Liber Usualis p. 1857). Not a beautiful publication, but functional.

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Mass of Puff, the Magic Dragon
Davido, Quite right. I'm sorry, and will try to refrain from posting before the coffee kicks in.

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Mass of Puff, the Magic Dragon
For anyone with 25 minutes to kill, there’s a really fun artifact in the 1957 20th Century Folk Mass by the Englishman Geoffrey Beaumont. It is the 1662 BCP text plus a few hymns, set and scored and performed in the manner of a movie musical. As I…

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Praise and Worship, and School Masses
From Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship; United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2007 G. Music in Catholic Schools 54. Catholic educational institutions have a special obligation toward music and the Sacred Liturgy. Catholic schools a…

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When the Forum comes alive...
I notice you carefully avoid identifying which team claims your allegiance. I like not being harassed. How are interlopers supposed to cause chaos if you won't give them a crib sheet in advance? Someone who says what they think I want them to…

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When the Forum comes alive...
I propose a simple test for visiting would-be singers. 1) Invite them into the gallery. 2) Ask which chant faction they belong to: Team Old Solesmes, Team Equalist, Team Semiologist, Team Bel Canto, Team Accompany It With Serpents, etc. 3a) If they…

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How do you sing/play “Holy God, We Praise Thy Name”?
Lutherans, in addition to Episcopalians, omit the repeat and the 8th notes. Having served both those denominations for years before my first Catholic job, I always have to watch out here, where folks sing both 8ths and repeat. This past Corpus Chr…

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Seeking Wise Counsel - Where do we go from here?
Father, You might check out pewmissal.com and see if it suits you.

Comment by Gamba July 2019 permalink
Responsorial Psalm for Wedding : How Good is the Lord to All (???)
Here is a setting of Psalm 145 I've just written, with the refrain "How good is the Lord to all", as it appears on the USCCB site, with Revised Grail text. Verses written out to tone 8; simple refrain. It was occasioned by a couple w…

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July 4th (USA), Ordinary Form
Good Lord, who wrote that preface? I couldn't believe it was real, until I saw it in the Missal. ...his message took form in the vision of our founding fathers... Three-fifths of several million slaves would certainly disagree.

Comment by Gamba July 2019 permalink
Reading Recommendations on what the Church says about Women Being Allowed to sing in choir
Re CGZ’s 4, 6, and 7: What clerical role does the choir fill that is in any way different from the lector’s? They are proclaiming the proper texts of the day as they chant, just as the lector is doing when s/he chants reads the first and second rea…

Comment by Gamba June 2019 permalink
Trinity Sunday @ my Parish
St. Mary, Auburn, NY OF Organ: Prelude & Fugue in E-flat, BWV 552 Introit, Offertory, Communion: proper chants from GR1974; Year C option for introit. Offertory 2: Hymn to the Trinity, Tchaikovsky (Cherubikon from the Liturgy of St. John Chry…

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Happy & Blessed Pentecost 2019!
St. Mary’s, Auburn, NY Sung Mass, NO All propers from GR1974 Introit: Spiritus Domini Hymn: Come down, O Love Divine Psalm: Angelo della Picca Sequence: Veni sancte Spiritus Alleluia: cribbed from O filii Offertory: Confirma hoc, Deus Anthem: Draw…

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Organ news (two items, really) from St. Louis
Well, now the Wicks is on eBay for $1. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1924-WICKS-PIPE-ORGAN-Op-507-NO-RESERVE-excluding-antiphonal-organ-/293105218821

Comment by Gamba May 2019 permalink
Organ news (two items, really) from St. Louis
The Wicks is a veritable gold mine of unison tone and orchestral colors, and much of it is under expression. And it was built for the church. https://pipeorgandatabase.org/Stoplist.Display01.php?path=MO/StLouis.StFrancisdeS.1924WicksOrgan.Stoplist…

Comment by Gamba May 2019 permalink
OCP-loving parish chant booklet?
Surprised this hasn’t come up yet. https://musicasacra.com/additional-publications/pbc/

Comment by Gamba May 2019 permalink
OCP and licensing music for Choral use.
You can get free, legal, harmonized graphics for most hymns worth singing here. https://hymnary.org/ Many complete hymnals have been scanned. Just type in the song you need and go from there. Due to OCP’s routine butchering of texts, you may have …

Comment by Gamba May 2019 permalink
Organists vs. Singers?
CharlesW, of course; just saying that’s been my experience of the BMus program in the past ten years since I started and ended my student life in three different (fairly large and worthy) organ departments.

Comment by Gamba May 2019 permalink
Organists vs. Singers?
Let’s see if I can say this without engaging in grotesque stereotyping. Most universities make at least a token effort to teach organ majors many of the skills beyond performing organ repertory one needs to be a church musician: -Conducting -Compr…

Comment by Gamba May 2019 permalink
Kyrie from Air on the G string?
The idea of “bonitatis formae”, or goodness of form, as cited in the encyclical Musica Sacrae, may have something to offer here. Nimrod and the Air were composed by brilliant masters skilled in both choral and instrumental writing. But Elgar and Bac…

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Hymn Tunes That Are Used Too Often
Ode to Joy has to be on there too.

Comment by Gamba May 2019 permalink
Ascension and Pentecost Sundays chants
Re Offertory of Ascension – the OF books give two chants: Ascendit Deus (as in EF), and Viri Galilei “ad libitum”. In an EF context, one could certainly sing Ascendit Deus as the proper offertory, and then follow it with Viri Galilei (as extra music…

Comment by Gamba April 2019 permalink
SAB rhythmic O Sons & Daughters/O Filii
You may want to make a few changes in the solo sop part in the final verse, as follows: M. 194 b. 3: Sings better if this is also a G. M. 201: Both E-flats should be E-naturals. M. 210: Both E-flats should be E-naturals. I’ll eventually make a…

Comment by Gamba April 2019 permalink
Paris Notre Dame fire
Sott.net is a site that is associated with the Quantum Future Group, the new religious movement created by Arkadiusz Jadczyk and Laura Knight Jadczyk. It's not necessarily a scam, but it's a highly unreliable source run by people who belie…

Comment by Gamba April 2019 permalink
Palm Sunday 2019
St. Mary, Auburn, NY Prelude: Guilmant, March on Handel's "Lift up your heads" Hosanna filio David (Gregorian) Procession: All glory, laud, and honor Psalm: WLP Gradual: Christus factus est (from Bruckner's Choralmesse für den G…

Comment by Gamba April 2019 permalink
Instrumental Music During Lent
As an American, I do wonder why some of those countries keep royal families in splendor to perform ceremonial functions. It means there is a distinction between the ceremonial and the functional head of state; the former to be the personification …

Comment by Gamba April 2019 permalink
St. Jean de Brebeuf hymnal and original chant melodies?
A sample of the harmony edition is out. http://www.ccwatershed.org/blog/2019/apr/9/brebeuf-hymnal-harmony-edition-sample/ http://www.ccwatershed.org/pdfs/85001-preview-organ-accompaniment-saint-jean-de-brebeuf-hymnal/download/ They’re using the sa…

Comment by Gamba April 2019 permalink
Instrumental Music During Lent
In the penance services we have, I chant an assortment of things in English, primarily the various penitential psalms and the psalms concerning the law of God. This provides cover for confessions, and also gives folks some sacred words with which to…

Comment by Gamba April 2019 permalink
Degree in Music?
Nihil What an outstanding and detailed response. I apologize if I have offense, and I marvel at all you have accomplished. Also, my wife has her degree in ancient languages, and she would join you in upbraiding those (me) without proper training in…

Comment by Gamba February 2019 permalink

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