NihilNominis

ITT: Upload a "wild" organ improvisation
I tried to cook it up with as little forethought as possible, just to see what happens... may we hear one of yours?

Comment by NihilNominis April 2018 permalink
ITT: Upload a "wild" organ improvisation
canadash (& Charles), Glad you enjoyed it! General Public, This thread will only be as fun as it ought to be if lots more organists post their own practical answers to the question, asked in another thread recently, "How wild can you go…

Comment by NihilNominis April 2018 permalink
South American baroque church music
Do you know Dr. or Mrs. Nathan Knutson? They have a keen interest in the work of Zipoli (not Spanish, I know), but I'm sure in reading up on him, they've found their way to material of this kind.

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How ‘wild’ can one go with organ improvisation??
Yaknow...liked it much better second time round. Here is another of his at a distance recording. https://youtu.be/o9WhBwKJKCw

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ISO of farewell choral piece
Tu Es Sacerdos by Praglia is nice... https://www.scribd.com/document/255661399/Tu-Es-Sacerdos-Praglia I have it SATB as well, if interested.

Comment by NihilNominis April 2018 permalink
How ‘wild’ can one go with organ improvisation??
It is, as some say, possible that there is order, structure, thought behind this. But an improvisor should make this plain to the listener, and the ordinary listener at that. If there was ever not a time or place for Augenmusik, it is in the improvi…

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Are Multiple Ministerial Roles Permitted At Same Mass?
Hey, CharlesW, same thing just happened to me! I got a proxy for downstairs, however, and assured my sponsored candidate of my prayerful presence with him by executing a dramatic transposition in my improvisation at the moment of his confirmation.

Comment by NihilNominis March 2018 permalink
Hamilton Diocese : Liturgical Instruction "Gathered Into One"
And yet many of these norms are arbitrary. It is sad to me to see a bishop clearly in mind of the need for liturgical propriety and unity, and yet lacking both the vision and generosity to allow space in his regulations for something abnormally beau…

Comment by NihilNominis March 2018 permalink
Polyphonic Gloria for the Easter Vigil
Casali's Mass in G is just lovely, super dramatic (up to the director just how dramatic you would like it!), and could reasonably put together in the two weeks (!) between now and the Vigil. Also sounds great accompanied or un-. Here's a …

Comment by NihilNominis March 2018 permalink
Worst Renaissance Composers
Gesualdo was not a visionary genius, just incompetent? Seriosly, have heard some preetty lame things about Orlando Gibbons' son, Christopher. E.g, Grove, "Gibbons excelled less as a composer than as an organ-player [...]" Although…

Comment by NihilNominis February 2018 permalink
Music/Liturgy Books for Sale
Graduale and Antiphonale, yes. How do I bid?

Comment by NihilNominis February 2018 permalink
New choir motto
It was cooked up by my crossover Choir/Philosophy Club students at Covington Latin School, in Covington, KY, when I taught there. It was kind of our motto, sad to say...

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New choir motto
"Shiny red apple I cannot eat this apple. My house, burning down."

Comment by NihilNominis February 2018 permalink
Pitch for Ave Regina Caelorum
E, F, or I would even say Gb could work well.

Comment by NihilNominis February 2018 permalink
Latin Hymn Translation is Fun?
Did you perhaps mean to type, "Latin Hymn Translation is Fun!" I feel like a good deal of "Ad Mortem Festinamus" is lost without the original's Seussian sense of alliteration, metre, and rhyme. Refrain: We're at deat…

Comment by NihilNominis February 2018 permalink
The flip side of "Over-used hymn tunes and hymns"
Don9of11, The O'Connell Juravit is a trip... ever heard this? From the choir of St Mary in Massillon, OH, 1965

Comment by NihilNominis February 2018 permalink
Practicing Pieces with a certain 8-letter 'A' Word During [Septuagesima and] Lent
I'm afraid I'm uncreative... Allelala.

Comment by NihilNominis January 2018 permalink
Rebuilt Video
Mark, If I may be so bold --- what changed? Why did Fr. White shift so dramatically on the liturgy? Do you know the story...? NN

Comment by NihilNominis December 2017 permalink
Rebuilt Video
And a_f_hawkins has found my source and my true meaning! Bravissimo!

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Rebuilt Video
White sanctuary lamp... cool.

Comment by NihilNominis November 2017 permalink
JESUS CHRISTUS REX UNIVERSORUM - At....
St. Mary, Help of Christians, Sleepy Eye, MN, Nov. 26, 2017, 9:30 a.m. St. Mary's School 3rd-6th Grade Choristers (about 30 singers) St. Mary's Junior & Senior High School Schola (about 20 singers) St. Mary's Caecilian Choir (abou…

Comment by NihilNominis November 2017 permalink
Some exciting news about Thomas Aquinas College
What is unsuitable about a liturgical quire from the perspective of conservative Catholic worship? It's this sort of thing that actually makes me fume. Just shift the pipes to the sides (or one side, if you wish to keep the action), the stal…

Comment by NihilNominis November 2017 permalink
Stabat mater
Thank you, Dirk! I would love to undertake this project. Admittedly, I had been looking forward to writing for the strings, but I will be happy to produce an unaccompanied setting. I will send you a PM and we can discuss more details. Thanks, Sean

Comment by NihilNominis September 2017 permalink
Stabat mater
Maestro Maes, I have always held a particular love for the Stabat Mater & would love to compose a setting for you. Which verses would you like set? Do you have organ & strings or just strings? How many male voices, and what voicing? And w…

Comment by NihilNominis September 2017 permalink
Looking for a church to go to while in Anaheim, CA for the Vigil of the Assumption Aug 14th.
Why not Annunciation Byzantine Catholic?

Comment by NihilNominis August 2017 permalink
Church music bloopers! What's your worst?
1) Lenten Sunday, so no prelude. Forgot to turn the blower on before Mass (indicator light had long since died). Cantor announced the opening hymn, I depressed the keys, and ... nothing. This one had compound interest, because I did not wait long e…

Comment by NihilNominis July 2017 permalink
Inversion of roles.
This suggestion was really quite a bit more common than you would think back during the revolution. It never did catch on much. My question: does singing a token and formulaic bit of a Gregorian Introit increase the prayerfulness or meaningfulnes…

Comment by NihilNominis July 2017 permalink
Omission of the Mystery of Faith in an OF Mass?
For me the fact that there is a choice of responses to a single prompt is contrary to the principles of liturgical structure, neither missal nor GIRM give any clue as to how the congregation should be guided in their individual choice. The continuan…

Comment by NihilNominis June 2017 permalink
2-part mass settings w/ organ?
Mass in Honor of St. Anthony of Padua, Fr. Ignatius Wilkens, OFM. Sample recording attached!

Comment by NihilNominis June 2017 permalink
That odd upside down generation gap, currently affecting young pastors
'cross polinisation'. . .? 1) The men of my parish choir now sing the TLM once a month. 2) The repertoire is planned together to encourage active collaboration between the musicians for joint concerts &c. 3) The chanting that is de-f…

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