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ITT: Upload a "wild" organ improvisation
https://soundcloud.com/philipfillion/magnificat-with-improvised-organ-verses

Comment by Gamba April 2018 permalink
ISO of farewell choral piece
In a dusty corner of the choir library I found an Ave Maria badly contrafacted from Bennett’s “Weep, O mine eyes, and cease not”. I would have thrown it out, but it will be handy should our excellent priest retire.

Comment by Gamba April 2018 permalink
Church Music "camps" for teenagers
Let’s see. Grace Lutheran Church in River Forest (just outside Chicago) runs a yearly Bach Cantata Camp for high school singers and strings. Weeklong, learn one cantata and enough other polyphony/psalms/hymns to do a vespers with cantata at the end.…

Comment by Gamba April 2018 permalink
Church Music "camps" for teenagers
Accidental post

Comment by Gamba April 2018 permalink
Church Music "camps" for teenagers
Does it have to be exclusively RC? If not, I can recommend several.

Comment by Gamba April 2018 permalink
"Father Z: Help Wanted"
But everything on Z’s blog is of unspeakable importance to western civilization....,

Comment by Gamba March 2018 permalink
St. John Passion according to the English Lectionary, in Neumatic Notation and with Planctus Tone
This is really beautiful! As Clemens said above, I too would be interested in the GABC, in order to make a leaflet next year for the people to chant when the crowd is speaking in the Passion. Today, the poor Synagoga was joined every time the crow…

Comment by Gamba March 2018 permalink
Organ continuo part for Mozart "Laudate Dominum", K 339?
http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/nma/nma_cont_mobile.php?vsep=18&gen=edition&p1=158&p2=166&idwnma=4436&l=1 Here’s a nice free Neue Mozart Ausgabe pdf of the score. Figures are included on the bottom line and choir parts are in modern…

Comment by Gamba March 2018 permalink
Remember that good old Allen digital I mentioned a while back? Well...
Hi and congratulations! Keep the speakers that are with it, if they are functional. Even if the cones are decaying, they can be replaced by Allen for less than the cost of new speakers. You will not be able to run it directly through your home stere…

Comment by Gamba March 2018 permalink
All Glory Laud / St Theodulph descant
Yes, I just put this together to avoid explaining to the choir how to do that and how to mark it in their scores...the hymn has already caused me enough grief due to the need to Xerox parts from one hymnal and edit the text edits in there to agree w…

Comment by Gamba March 2018 permalink
All Glory Laud / St Theodulph descant
I took this from Gerre Hancock's accompaniment, heard here; he played it slightly differently each time, but this is the line, with a few things smoothed over to make it more singable. https://soundcloud.com/inmemoriamgerrehancock/all-glory-lau…

Comment by Gamba March 2018 permalink
How to interpret the newer chant books

Comment by Gamba March 2018 permalink
Collegeville Holtkamp to be expanded by Pasi
But dontcha know, dropping one Harmonic Flute into a specification makes it “versatile and eminently suited for French Romantic Music”.... I really think cost/cheapness has a lot to do with it. We can’t have good Germanic instruments with just a r…

Comment by Gamba March 2018 permalink
Collegeville Holtkamp to be expanded by Pasi
And every week I play a II/30 1890 tracker that isn’t “exactly right” for Buxtehude or Messiaen or Vierne or Reger, but plays the heck out of all of them, because 1) every stop contributes something to the chorus, 2) nothing is voiced to an extreme …

Comment by Gamba March 2018 permalink
Fr. Ruff on the Three Year Lectionary
As to the question of Lutheran orders and that quote of Luther’s re the Mass, one has to remember that the same man said (Apology of the Augsburg Confession, art. 24) “At the outset we must again make the preliminary statement that we do not abolish…

Comment by Gamba March 2018 permalink
Fr. Ruff on the Three Year Lectionary
Chiming in, from my sojourn in Luther Land and among the Anglo-Catholics: Prior to 1978 and the promulgation of Lutheran Book of Worship and its successors you could walk into a Lutheran church of any synod, grab any hymnal, and find the same lecti…

Comment by Gamba March 2018 permalink
It's the annual time to consider a published hymnal for your parish.
Can hymns be engraved in four parts? Having grown up Protestant, it irks me to no end to have to Xerox hymns from another book week after week for the choir, plus tinker with whatever words assorted editors have changed. Nothing is lost by printing …

Comment by Gamba March 2018 permalink
High school schola loves chant; but boys reluctant to sing out
Off to rehearsal, armed with your weapons, to work at this music for tomorrow's mass. Grad. Romanum introit and communion for Friday in 2nd Week of Lent, a Gamba's Own™ psalm and Fr. Weber's gospel acclamation, plus hymn and Roman Mis…

Comment by Gamba March 2018 permalink
High school schola loves chant; but boys reluctant to sing out
Melofluent, thank you. James Jordan was one of my conducting teachers. He and Noble have thought and written so much, one has to buy everything GIA sells and go to every seminar in the Lower 48 to absorb it all. You have raised points that sadly did…

Comment by Gamba February 2018 permalink
High school schola loves chant; but boys reluctant to sing out
Thank you so very much; I really appreciate your advice – a lot here to implement. I do take care to warm them up for 5-8 minutes at the beginning of each rehearsal, but I recognize that in my concerns over getting them out of the basement register …

Comment by Gamba February 2018 permalink

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