MatthewRoth

Choir Website(s)?
I wish we had room.

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setting of "Santo santo santo" for congregation, choir, and organ
The link works, it’s just not clickable in the YouTube description

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Choir Website(s)?
Oh I wish People don’t look for things when they walk in and it’s a whole start-stop I’m also putting together a Google doc for each rehearsal. Doing it quarterly helps; then I can have a good lock on new material beyond the propers that might nee…

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Choir Website(s)?
One thing that’s killing me is, right off the bat, Dropbox has less storage space unless you pay up. And I have no budget. I also dislike its UI and UX compared to Drive. But not all of my members have Google accounts… and I’m not really inclined t…

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Bragers Proprium Sanctorum?
I don’t know how hands off you’d consider it, but Potiron wrote accompaniment in the Solesmes style of his day (Dom Desrocquettes worked with him at one point) for the major feasts (including most that take the place of Sundays, though a page is mis…

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Publishers announced for new Breviary!
Sure but the division in the vernacular psalters is sort of bizarre for singing and maybe even recitation. This means that the tones can’t be applied consistently.

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Has the Palmer-Burgess Plainchant Gradual been approved for use in the Ordinary Form?
The trouble is less the approved translation and that for the NO it isn’t approved at all (yet, at least for the U.S.): in theory, this could be an approved option with that requirement, and you could find yourself without the episcopal conference (…

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Adoration Music for Teens
The Laudate omnes gentes from Taizé is admittedly nice for the reposition.

Comment by MatthewRoth October 2025 permalink
Publishers announced for new Breviary!
The psalm divisions are still too long to use with Gregorian tones, or they’re way too short because English. The former is a choice!

Comment by MatthewRoth October 2025 permalink
Choir Website(s)?
I set things out and need to make a point of it because people waltz right by and don’t look. I’m going to get something that I can stick the rehearsal order on (and then use the pad for other things). It’s tiresome.

Comment by MatthewRoth October 2025 permalink
Publishers announced for new Breviary!
There is a part of me that says « do it, and don’t tell anyone ». Another part is « well, maybe now is the time to ask Rome. » I normally don’t advocate for asking questions if the answer is uncertain, but I know at least one Catholic IP lawyer who …

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Has the Palmer-Burgess Plainchant Gradual been approved for use in the Ordinary Form?
Ian I don’t see where in this thread you made such agreement, but OK. I don’t advocate for the congregation singing more than the antiphon before and after the psalm; even that can be done by the entire choir (assuming that you have a choir), with …

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Has the Palmer-Burgess Plainchant Gradual been approved for use in the Ordinary Form?
But Andrew has a point. We have said, time and again, that currently in the USA (and elsewhere) the interlectionary chants cannot be sung in the vernacular, and using the P-B is not really kosher, for those chants at least (since you can sing virtu…

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Adoration Music for Teens
I also encourage silence.

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Salaries and hours
As I said, whatever. Francis hijacked the thread and here we are. What part of that is so hard to understand? What part of everything wherein I explained that CHM makes it worse for the member is so hard to understand????

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Music Suggestions for the Memorial of Pope St John Paul II
Mass II, III, or IV for the Ordinary.

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Music for Adoration
Sponsa, nobody does this. The rubrics specifically call for a moment of silent prayer after Tantum Ergo before the collect/Versicle is chanted/recited. It’s not just about following the rubrics, it’s about using some common sense and following tr…

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Space between lines in Illuminare?
You’re missing hyphens in half of the examples. The space between the last letter and the opening parenthesis or tag in this case (and then the closing tag followed by the opening parenthesis) causes Gregorio to treat it as a new word, albeit incon…

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Music for Adoration
David, I find that you should just go from Tantum to the collect (and versicle, even though that’s suppressed in the NO)… More silence gets to be thumb-twiddly. And he really ought to be using incense to expose the Sanctissimum too… Also, I guess y…

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Space between lines in Illuminare?
although that is not a great idea.

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Commonly Used Abbreviations on the Forum
Yeah, I don’t think that the signaling interest is the meaning here.

Comment by MatthewRoth October 2025 permalink
Space between lines in Illuminare?
No, it’s not possible to change modes with one .gabc file, since either the annotation or mode line above the %% (as is the case for the web editors like Illuminare/Source and Summit or if you use LaTeX and don’t change anything) or the annotation i…

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Salaries and hours
« Whatever » is basically the suitable response, since the thread was hijacked to promote one specific form of thing that I also feel strongly about in the opposite direction. CHM filters the bill so that if it’s sent by the wrong person, it’s not …

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Space between lines in Illuminare?
Yeah, that's the other thing, but it doesn't work so well with the visual web editors, since you can't suppress the custos (the whole point of the description language is that it's format-independent, it just has to be supported …

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Choir Website(s)?
I currently use Google Drive since we have email. (I’d prefer that the parish pay for Google Workspace and include us as a seat but until then…) This is a problem since a few people have emails that can’t be used for Google access apparently. Oh we…

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Choir/Cantor Question
That’s our repertoire but that was also for lack of the right personnel. Two years ago, we struggled to sightread even just the Grassi Magnificat verses. We did it this week, and bam, it’s definitely happening for a major feast before year’s end. W…

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Space between lines in Illuminare?
I’m not sure what you’re trying to do. My understanding is that you have the gabc needed to generate scores, which are all in one document right now, and the staves for one score are close to the other. You have there a bunch of things that you wou…

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Salaries and hours
TCJ, except that people and doctors’ offices or hospitals mess this up all the time. However, what I did not realize was that on Feb of 2025 Team Health (physician billing) had contacted CHM by mail issuing a request for payment for a physician bil…

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Salaries and hours
No, I’m not. I’m referring to both, because there are problems with both. If our standard is that it doesn’t take a lot of googling, then you can find that people have problems with Christian Healthcare Ministries. I never said that insurance was a…

Comment by MatthewRoth October 2025 permalink
Salaries and hours
Francis, your experience is great, except that it does not take a whole lot of googling to find that people have terrible experiences with virtually all of these health-share programs; insurance is the way that our system works. People don’t have to…

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