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Hymns at funeral masses
And Knaggs deserves to be better known. Some of his music is absolutely stunning. I grew up with him and took piano lessons from him when I was a kid. I never would have guessed at the time that his career would take such a dramatic and transcend…

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Hymns at funeral masses
The worst thing to happen to the Catholic funeral liturgy was the suppression of the Sequence.Yes. People have completely lost all understanding of what a funeral is actually about. The Dies Irae leaves little room for doubt.

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Music for Spanish Mass
Jeffrey, those are good resources, although in truth they are somewhat limited. Another set of similar resources is the Zipoli institute, although again, you have to hunt around for what you'd like to find, and its not comprehensive, althoug…

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Ave Regina English Gregorian?
That works surprisingly well!

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Do you want anything in particular sung at your funeral Mass?
I cannot state in strong enough terms how much I hope to have "I heard the voice of Jesus say" set to Tallis' Third Mode Melody, sung SATB a cappella. This is presuming, of course, that I cannot have a traditional requiem mass with f…

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Hymns at funeral masses
Elmar, at least in the US, you have no "right to privacy" (as such) in a public space. I hear what you are saying, but practically speaking, there's nothing 'wrong' from a legal sense. Prudentially, is another matter, espe…

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Suggestions for a "new" Alleluia--Gospel Acclamation
That would explain its origin.No doubt! Really, the only difference is that I added an extra alleluia in between the two phrases of the Anglican Use version. Just goes to show, however, what excellent fodder ancient chants are for recycling within…

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Hymns at funeral masses
MarkB, that last example is horrendous. That is a cantor (more likely DoM both playing and singing) who has an ego larger that sanctuary… that is so sad. (To say nothing of the abuse he’s done to the original hymn anyway.)

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Hymns at funeral masses
I'm attaching our current funeral music planning guide. It is in need of some revision (its current incarnation dates to the period of time where we were phasing out our hymnals, so there are still a few pieces on there that I never schedule i…

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Music for Spanish Mass
I should mention that we have their bilingual English/Spanish pew missals and they are similarly excellent. Has both languages on opposing pages in lock-step throughout. They are very well-made, too.

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Music for Spanish Mass
I am not at liberty to disclose very much, but suffice it to say that I've seen a proof for a new Spanish hymnal that will be published by ILP, and it is excellent. It is the closest thing I've ever seen akin to a "normal" hymna…

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Suggestions for a "new" Alleluia--Gospel Acclamation
This is fascinating! I’ve never come across this “Anglican use Alleluia” before, but it is essentially the same as what I derived from the sanctus of the Missa de angelis. It’s so funny that I would have the same idea (in essence) as this piece. …

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Chanting the Entrance Antiphon OF for Lent?
From the front matter: Gratis permission is granted to Peter R Johnson to post to the Internet digital files of musical settings of the Revised Grail Psalms. These digital files may be distributed to, and downloaded by, the general public for use w…

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Suggestions for a "new" Alleluia--Gospel Acclamation
I presume It’s option 4 (#149) on page 141 of the PBC.

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Help: I Involuntarily became Schola director
One thing that I've found helpful (and bear in mind, not everyone is open to putting in the effort, but a few are very happy to do so) is to provide "practice tracks" to the choir. Now, if you are learning these chants by ear yoursel…

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Suggestions for a "new" Alleluia--Gospel Acclamation
Thanks, Chonak. I accidentally discovered this very thing about a week ago but had forgotten about this thread. Francis, here you go.

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Chanting the Entrance Antiphon OF for Lent?
There’s also always simple English propers which are free. (A bit boring, at times, but for a lenten diet for people who aren’t used to chanting, perhaps they are just the ticket.)

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Chanting the Entrance Antiphon OF for Lent?
I have a version of Hosannah Filio David in english, if you need it. Better than not doing it at all! (if they won't accept the Latin)

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How can I get parishoners to join a schola?
Yep

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Organ in Lent
If they tell you you can’t use the organ, there is certainly no way to justify using the piano.

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How can I get parishoners to join a schola?
Our pastoral associate and I were catching up yesterday and he suggested encouraging people to join during lent as an alternate and special form of prayer, so I’ve put an announcement in the worship aids to that effect. It would be a good spiritual…

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Organ in Lent
I like to program more a cappella music during Lent, but some choirs/congregations simply can't handle all a cappella. This is no doubt common to many parishes. It reminds me of BXVI’s observation that it is better to do simpler music well, th…

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Two steps forward, three steps back...
Does that mean you’ll be singing the seasonal Marian antiphon? Silence?

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Sacerdotes Dei
Nathan, I recently discovered that if the file names are too long, or if they contain certain special characters, the forum upload fails. Shortening and/or removing those characters (such as ‘•’) solves the problem.

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Can the priest's chanting be droned?
I never said I was advocating for any of this. I just said I could see how the argument could be made. I cannot think of a reason why alternate melodies could not be provided for the canon generically speaking, and those melodies could perhaps be …

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Can the priest's chanting be droned?
Only the priest should be saying/singing his part. He is metaphysically different to everyone else in the room. Perhaps an argument could be made for having soft humming or an organ drone underneath the prayers he vocalizes loudly for all to hea…

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Eucharistic Congress Composition Contest
Seems like a paltry sum for something they will be presumably pushing across the country all year. I have misgivings about completely relinquishing copyright in perpetuity…

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Novus Ordo Francis Burgess propers (AUG)
My issue isn’t the GP’s; it’s that it is too easy to get lost if you are the organist reading the top, or singers reading week 4 at the bottom. Granted, the more you do this, you get used to it pretty quickly (it is formulaic after all), but I woul…

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Organ in Lent
But I try to do the Ordinary without organ for Passiontide.same. GF, in particular, is totally a cappella.

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The Beatitudes
Quite so.

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