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Language is Living and Ever Changing
Phew.

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Looking for Leonin Viderunt Omnes (Organum Duplum)
I can't search here at home to find the book today, due to a temporary back outage. However, I can state that the scores in the Anthology are rather small and they are reproductions; so if you can find where the editors reproduced it from, that…

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OMG! Another Sighting of Flying Fish!
Was that you? Well, if so, good work in dealing with a um, very special situation!

Comment by chonak August 2013 permalink
Looking for Leonin Viderunt Omnes (Organum Duplum)
I have that book here somewhere.

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Flying Fish Puppets at NPM Mass
The two videos show the kite at two events: an opening event / keynote in a conference hall, and also in the Basilica. The Basilica video is titled 'convention eucharist', so the user who posted it (RodgersOrgans) considered that processio…

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OMG! Another Sighting of Flying Fish!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMnMgX7GiOA

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Forum color scheme
I have a personal reason for not liking beige: I spent the 1960s and 70s living and working in it (my parents were hoteliers in a small town, so I saw a lot of motel decor). Finally, the flashbacks are over. . .

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Flying Fish Puppets at NPM Mass
Maybe logo placement on the banners is not such a bad idea. It could even be accompanied by an announcement: "This portion of the Convention is brought to you by the Sacred Music Colloquium: seven days of musical heaven, held every summer. For …

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Forum color scheme
It is quite identical; well -- except for the background color, the Times font, the indenting, the italics, and the blue box around it. C'mon, huh? :-) Ah, well. Not everyone perceives these things in the same way. I'm rather detail-orie…

Comment by chonak August 2013 permalink
Looking for Leonin Viderunt Omnes (Organum Duplum)
The staff at a university music library could probably answer this. Some works are published in academic journals or music book series, if not in conventional performing editions.

Comment by chonak August 2013 permalink
Language is Living and Ever Changing
"Language is living and ever-changing"... hey, expand on that; the Unitarians could sing it as a hymn. But seriously, folks, because language changes, it is wise to keep recent changes in language use out of the liturgy. Follow the standa…

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It's always Ordinary Time at the Forum.

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Forum color scheme
Mark, you're seeing an old version of the graphic from your browser cache. If you clear it, you'll get a different view.

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Thinking about hymns
Alternatively, it may be like a ride on the hobby-horse.

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Forum color scheme
Or maybe I didn't mean the same apse. Which one is to the right of "forum" depends on the width of your browser window!

Comment by chonak August 2013 permalink
Forum color scheme
Yes, that's the apse I swapped out for this one. Maybe the unevenness in the image reflects some irregularity in the windows of the actual building. :-) For a while I tried having users work with a fancier editor with more features for composi…

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Index of Chants
It's still there. Navigate: Home Page -> "Music PDFs" -> "Latin Chant for the Mass", then scroll down; it's listed under "References for the Ordinary Form".

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I've bumped up the font size. Formerly it was "small" (80% of normal); now it's 85%.

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Isn't that a cute optical illusion: how the dark color makes the center seem narrower than the ends?

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are you going to set this same pallet for the other liturgical colors of the day http://tinyurl.com/l8pboey

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OK, I got back the old blockquote styling; and I agree with Mark about that apse, so I pulled in another image to replace it. Otherwise, I think this'll be adequate for a while.

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If I can find enough suitable images, I'll make the banner wider to avoid repeats.

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It'll do for now.

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Quite so!

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Forum color scheme
Most of the colors are taken from this palette, whose inventor called it "Ruined Culture". Others are based on it. I chose the palette because it included the green from the background image, which became green based on a suggestion from …

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I had to do something to it, since I'd worked on the other three CMAA sites this summer, and this one still looked pretty unappealing.

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OMG! Another Sighting of Flying Fish!
Sometimes the 'thanks' button isn't enough, and we need a ROTFL button.

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Forum color scheme
Happy to have banished the beige.

Comment by chonak August 2013 permalink
Catholic singing culture?
Amen to SkripR's point about nagging at people for not singing. People sing to express their faith and devotion, so they need clergy and musicians to build up faith and devotion. Not taunting like a drill sergeant, not imitations of black minis…

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Forum color scheme
For what it's worth, here is the default color scheme that comes with the forum software. I think it's better than all this beige stuff.

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