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Daily Psalm Response Accompaniment
Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB, out of Collegeville, MN, has set the daily Mass psalms, published by The Liturgical Press. Here's a sample of his work: https://www.litpress.org/Products/GetSample/3261/9780814632611

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Henry Pilcher Enthusiasts -
Charles, It's in the supplement of voluntaries in the Organ Accompaniment to the Responses at High Mass book put out before the turn of the 20th Century by J. Fischer. I can't seem to find a digital copy anywhere. There is a fugue of ve…

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Henry Pilcher Enthusiasts -
By Ambrosius Roslin; know anything at all about him?

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Henry Pilcher Enthusiasts -
For all you Pilcherites, here's the Epistle Sonata from the project on the 1894 Henry Pilcher's Sons organ at St. John the Baptist, Dover, Indiana. https://soundcloud.com/seanconnolly/epistle-sonata-take-2-good

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Choir Robes get Stylish
Buzzzzz...

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Beauty in the Triplex
Well, we know how long to hold that note...

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A Curious Juxtaposition
See, mis-attribution is as Christian as Pseudo-Dionysius. Just because it's not Franciscan or a particularly "mean" text, doesn't make it unfit for church. And it's a very hard text, in its way.

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A Curious Juxtaposition
Now if you want a real brain-bender...listening to the Westminster version and then to Temple's 1967 recording... :-D

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Liturgical Music Questionnaire: Please Leave Your Vote!
7. Greek Catholic Divine Liturgy with Prostopenije

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"Planning for Beauty" by Joel Morehouse in First Things
It is always possible to plan...build a descant on a reharmonization for the last verse.

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The Hymnal 1940 for an EF Parish
I don't think the H1940 would be a comprehensive resource of congregational song, of course (and I'd hate to see so many copies mutilated in order to be stuck in the pews). That being said, it is a wonderful collection. Even if you are a p…

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Motets for an ordination
Praglia's Tu Es Sacerdos is very manageable.

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Latin congregational entrance hymns.
The schmaltzy old Christus Vincit would seem to do well... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB07R-sizvk

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Humorous... but Very Very Sad
I write like a confrontational, hostile schizophrenic maniac, so I prefer to meet face-to-face and talk some of the important points through with the couple.

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Feeling guilty
I find it interesting what presumptions are being made about the Mass settings I use that aren't the ICEL Chants... [Mischievous Grin] Noel, As for why I don't "dump the emotional stuff": 1) The bereaved plan a part of the fun…

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Feeling guilty
Chris, As I explain in the paragraph you cite, if the congregation are participatory, I use the seasonal setting. I further explain in the same paragraph that the ICEL Chants are the parish's Advent and Lenten setting. Thus you ought to have…

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Humorous... but Very Very Sad
Probably 5% of weddings in the New Rite I've done have in some way featured propers from the Graduale Romanum. Although this is an official book, it still doesn't deal with the music that has always been ad libitum: processions for the we…

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How shall we choose?: propers in the NO and the drive of lectionary based music
This is going to sound awful...but... Last Sunday's introit was Respice, Domine, "Remember, O Lord, Your covenant, and do not abandon the souls of Your poor..." The Bread of Life was all over the readings. The Responsorial Psalm was…

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Humorous... but Very Very Sad
I'd be frightened to see what an official book of wedding music produced by officialdom would contain. What's more likely: (a) the committee responsible for its production will return ad fontes pulchritudinis and produce a volume rich in…

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Feeling guilty
At funerals, nearly as a rule, I play "Christ Lag in Todes Banden" from the Orgelbüchlein a la Guilmant, very soft and slow, making a lot of the transition from sadness to joy, and then perhaps "Blessed are Ye Faithful Souls" by …

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19th-Century Chant Recordings
Very handy! We found an accompaniment book for the responses at High Mass published by Fischer, in the choir loft at St. Philomena in Oak Forest, IN, along with 100 "Short and Pleasing Voluntaries," which we are using for organ music and a…

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19th-Century Chant Recordings
Salieri, I don't think that's bad at all! The spontaneous reaction of the choir upon singing it was, generally, "We love this." From a vocalist's perspective, I find it peculiarly satisfying to be able to throw my whole voi…

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19th-Century Chant Recordings
Well, it's been an interesting experience to sing it with a choir--I puzzled with interpreting it on my own before rehearsal, to a large extent gave up, set it before my choir, and found that it really interprets itself. The first thing you n…

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Henry Pilcher Enthusiasts -
We are in the process of making a recording of a reconstructed High Mass from 1898 using the 1894 Pilcher organ at St. John the Baptist in Dover, Indiana. It really is all about the voicing. Nothing on the organ is strident, and the entire instrume…

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Introit and entrance hymn?
Ralph, You're right; I let my common experience of guitars think for me. I assumed too much, and perhaps I also assumed too much about how much is really possible for the OP in his parish. I certainly agree with your vision as the ideal.

Comment by NihilNominis August 2013 permalink
Introit and entrance hymn?
Ralph, None of us here doubts the power and meaning of the Introit! That's why we are at pains to introduce it! But forcing people out of their customs very quickly can often backfire. There's a local parish at which the RotR was flouris…

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Introit and entrance hymn?
At my parish I have begun singing the Introit a capella with one or two voices *immediately* before the bells ring (they ring exactly as Mass is to begin). After the bells, the processional hymn begins. The important part is to pick a good hymn, sh…

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Guilty Pleasures
J.A. Korman, Mass in Honor of the Blessed Sacrament. Particularly the Benedictus. I think the Hosanna sets just the right tone when sung in the EF just after the consecration. Here is a Korean-American parish choir that has never let go: http://sj…

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