PhilipPowell

Wedding Psalm 148 Let all praise the name of the Lord
The links at the Chanabel page are not working for me, but I’m hoping that’s just a me problem. Good luck! https://www.noelchabanel.org/psalms/wedding_C_7/

Comment by PhilipPowell December 20 permalink
Small Christmas gift for youth choir members - Is it lapel pins or bust?
York mint chocolates for rehearsals and Ferrero Rochers at Christmas and Easter were what kept me coming to choir as a kid long enough to begin enjoying it.

Comment by PhilipPowell November 28 permalink
Simple organ music for wedding
There’s several arrangements (of varying difficulty) of Bach’s Bist du bei mir, BWV 508 and Arioso from Cantata, BWV 156 on IMSLP, which are two of my favorites to play for weddings, especially the 508. They are certainly softer pieces which work be…

Comment by PhilipPowell July 25 permalink
Organ keys are noisy
I suggest posting on the Organ Forum. I can almost guarantee the guys over there will be able to identify your issue if there is one. organforum.com

Comment by PhilipPowell May 25 permalink
Cochereau Te Deum Transcription
Yes one of the frustrating things is having to switch to the desktop sight to see attachments. If you want to see attachments on your phone, go up to the menu next to “Mark All Viewed” and click on “View Full Site” (or something like that) and th…

Comment by PhilipPowell April 22 permalink
"Communion hymn must be about the Eucharist"
Even in our common language we are heretics. We don’t worship “Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament/Eucharist/etc.”. That’s consubstantiation. It seems to me that such language is simply speaking of Our Lord’s presence in a particular “location”. I agre…

Comment by PhilipPowell April 17 permalink
Simple Motets or Organum for Tenor/Bass
Check out Lassus’ two-voice motets, a couple of which are Marian. https://cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Orlando_di_Lasso

Comment by PhilipPowell February 5 permalink
SAB(aritone) Pieces?
Here’s an accompanied piece by ServiamScores that I’m a big fan of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9StqtU5oMw

Comment by PhilipPowell January 27 permalink
SAB(aritone) Pieces?
Just off the top of my head (some are originally for equal voices but can/have been adapted for SAB). - O Sacrum Convivium, Remondi - Panis Angelicus, Casciolini - Lots of pieces by Kevin Allen. I’ve used his O Sacrum Convivium, Ave Sacer Christi, A…

Comment by PhilipPowell January 27 permalink
Ash Wednesday at the Vatican - Parce Domine
@jefflokanata, There is also this arrangement also by Bartolucci: http://www.musicaliturgica.altervista.org/partiture/bartolucci_parce_domine.pdf

Comment by PhilipPowell January 14 permalink
Gospel Acclamation for OT
I basically had just started using what Peter Latona was doing including: - Mode VI - Murray - His own in Gm for OT - Mawby (Advent) - Galineau (with an amazing descant of his own!)

Comment by PhilipPowell December 2024 permalink
Choral Wedding Repertoire suggestions
I’ve done Tallis’ “If Ye Love Me” a number of times. It’s been done at quite a few of the recent English royal weddings.

Comment by PhilipPowell November 2024 permalink
Are you the cantor too?
Personally, I find “Billy Joel-ing it” (as Matthew Meloche would say) easier than trying to have a cantor show up for our 7:30am daily Mass.

Comment by PhilipPowell June 2024 permalink
Organists -- Beyond the fanfare, your favorite low key movements of grand organ works?
Of course Boellman’s ‘Priere a Notre Dame’ from Suite Gothique comes to mind.

Comment by PhilipPowell June 2024 permalink
Christmas Prelude Music for Organ
- BWV 729 (if you’re not doing it at the end) - BuxWV 217

Comment by PhilipPowell June 2024 permalink
Assumption motet
Last year we did Talley’s ‘Ave Regina Caelorum’ (which I know isn’t actually “in season” for August 15). https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jngP0Goixiw

Comment by PhilipPowell May 2024 permalink
Is it necessary to announce the hymn if everything is in the worship aid?
I don’t believe it is the church’s wish to “fulfill V2’s request.” I certainly agree. I think I just find the idea behind this particular request justified and fairly applicable to congregational singing, which I think has become a viable part of tr…

Comment by PhilipPowell May 2024 permalink
Is it necessary to announce the hymn if everything is in the worship aid?
I think it’s clear in Scripture that we are required to use our bodies to glorify God and singing is a certainly a key part of that. Simply taking the minimal effort to open up the hymnal and sing is the least one could do to fulfill Vatican II’s re…

Comment by PhilipPowell May 2024 permalink
Suggestions for a Processional Hymn on Holy Thursday
Jesus, Priest and Victim to KING’S WESTON.

Comment by PhilipPowell March 2024 permalink
Confirmation Before or After the Sprinkling Rite at the Easter Vigil
I have no idea what you mean bij de celebration of reception, but at the Easter Vigil, confirmation is administered directly after baptism. “… unless this has already been done together with those to be baptized” (Easter Vigil in the RM no. 55, c…

Comment by PhilipPowell March 2024 permalink
Suggestions for polyphony for teens to learn in one week for the Mass of Sts. Peter & Paul
Michael Haller’s setting of Tu es Petrus is very nice and of hymn-like difficulty.

Comment by PhilipPowell March 2024 permalink
HYMN OF THE MONTH – March: God of Mercy and Compassion
We sang this this morning to the great Pergolesi tune during the postcommunion - always a big hit for choir and congregation.

Comment by PhilipPowell March 2024 permalink
Help identify motet book
I recognize a few of those scores from Oreste Ravanello's Secunda Anthologis Vocalis: https://media.musicasacra.com/pdf/secunda.pdf.

Comment by PhilipPowell March 2024 permalink
Requiem Mass for SMALL Choir
Removed (didn’t see the English requirement, sorry).

Comment by PhilipPowell February 2024 permalink
Ash Wednesday at the Vatican - Parce Domine
Thank you, Matthew. I probably should’ve guessed that in the first place!

Comment by PhilipPowell February 2024 permalink
Lenten Gospel Acclamations
Here’s the page from GIA:

Comment by PhilipPowell February 2024 permalink
Lenten Gospel Acclamations
https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/20675/orbis-factor-gospel-acclamation/p1 I think Serviam’s fifth option is the best (might be Hurd’s original adaption).

Comment by PhilipPowell February 2024 permalink
Can I play the organ during Lent?
We’ll be having a bongo drum, two guitars lightly strumming, and a clarinet on each Sunday of Lent, following the octavos we recently bought from a major publisher that advised us our celebrations would be incomplete without them. Talk about a pen…

Comment by PhilipPowell February 2024 permalink
Help finding a specific setting of "Vidi Aquam"
I checked GregoBase and nothing seems to match.

Comment by PhilipPowell January 2024 permalink
Absolutely the most amazing video on YouTube
However, I must say that I prefer this version slightly more. Yeah, there’s less of it.

Comment by PhilipPowell January 2024 permalink

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