BGP

One Antiphon, Multiple Psalms
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Comment by BGP January 14 permalink
Sang “Hail Mary: Gentle Woman” at a funeral today…
I've never noticed the words, probably because I'm so distracted by the fact that "the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" plays in my head at "Blessed art thou among women and bless'd is the fruit of thy womb.."

Comment by BGP January 14 permalink
Use of (Roman) Tonus In Directum with English
Thank you very much Matthew, I appreciate it. ----------------- I'm attaching the portion of my project that's giving fits. Specific difficult verses are Ps31:6 Ps91:12,14 Ps134:1

Comment by BGP November 2025 permalink
Use of (Roman) Tonus In Directum with English
adjust the tone per the decree on monosyllables and Hebrew words is this the Do La Ti alternative ending? I would rather not do that.

Comment by BGP November 2025 permalink
Breviarium Gregorianum: Breviary with Scores
This is awesome!

Comment by BGP November 2025 permalink
O Salutaris Hostia/ Tantum Ergo newly mandated English texts
According to the booklet linked by A_F_Hawkins "the following or another hymn or other Eucharistic song is sung:" these aren't mandatory hymn translations IMO. Wouldn't the "change" be an opportunity to introduce the L…

Comment by BGP January 2025 permalink
Typesetting solutions
Thank you everyone. You are all awesome as usual!

Comment by BGP July 2024 permalink
Accompaniment poll
Thank you Serviam

Comment by BGP May 2021 permalink
Screens in liturgy
My smarmy quote above has a point. We use artificial lights but replacing altar candles with them (should be) obviously undesirable, nothing is more tacky than artificial votive lights. I do not believe it is possible to use projection or large cong…

Comment by BGP January 2020 permalink
Screens in liturgy
"The era of candles is over we need to transition to incandescent bulbs."

Comment by BGP January 2020 permalink
Music for the traditional Office in English
The Monastic Diurnal resources mentioned are of course of the monastic rather than Roman office and use the official Anglican translations. Douglas’s adaptations are pretty decent. There was a sung Sunday vespers book published by St. John’s Abbey…

Comment by BGP December 2019 permalink
Votive Mass Music
chonak, yes I am aware of that but am being asked to use the Missal text in English I just threw something together and am posting it here for posterity and critique.

Comment by BGP August 2019 permalink
Votive Mass Music
Thanks everyone.

Comment by BGP August 2019 permalink
Votive Mass Music
Without and in unison.

Comment by BGP August 2019 permalink
Is Archbishop Sample's pastoral letter on sacred music dead on arrival?
Numbers 5 and 7 are absolutely hilarious.

Comment by BGP March 2019 permalink
Use of Agni Parthene in Roman Catholic parish?
"in an Ordinary Form environment, where ugly is the order of the day, what would be the point of introducing something like this" Is freaking out the crypto-protestants not a good reason? Thank you all for your input, yes- I think it do…

Comment by BGP October 2018 permalink
Use of Agni Parthene in Roman Catholic parish?
http://www.newbyz.org/agniparthene.pdf

Comment by BGP August 2018 permalink
Communion for Protestant Spouses
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Comment by BGP June 2018 permalink
Crux Fidelis in PBC 2nd Ed.
More or less as rarty describes. Pope Urban the 8th thought it was a great idea to have Jesuits alter a large number of the hymns, many penned by saints, because they weren't "as Cicero would have written them". It gets real exciti…

Comment by BGP February 2018 permalink
workshop for beginning teachers of chant
Welcome cathystox, the CMAA's 'Chant Intensive' would be a great starting place as far as workshops go (but is in the US). Unfortunately I have no idea what workshops are available in Europe. I would encourage you to see if you can f…

Comment by BGP January 2018 permalink
Divinum Officium questions
Jonathan- that's pretty cool.

Comment by BGP August 2017 permalink
Offertory - Precatus est Moyses
The 1908 Gradual used the same texts as the ancient Graduals. Prior to this it was required to sing the identical texts found in the Missal of Trent. This is Likely the cause of the discrepancy. St. Gall library is online somewhere if you want to g…

Comment by BGP August 2017 permalink
QUILISMA. do not hold
Is it not possible that the quilisma itself was simply an indication of the half step? Since it is nearly always on MI or TI (when it's not perhaps are errors which crept in) and in the lineless notation.

Comment by BGP August 2017 permalink
QUILISMA. do not hold
Not sure I follow Mr. Osborn. Shakespeare for example. I think it highly important that High Schoolers read him. I think it less concerning that they fail to use historically correct pronunciation. I think it important that Gregorian chant be used…

Comment by BGP August 2017 permalink
QUILISMA. do not hold
I disagree. I have encountered a good number of cases in which people don't like chant, and in many of these cases, it seems that is in part due to the fact that what they hear is ........ well I don't have statistics. I seem to encounter…

Comment by BGP August 2017 permalink
QUILISMA. do not hold
Seems to be an uptick in these type of discussions on here lately. These sort of details it seems to me are the least we should be concerned with when the average Catholic at the average parish is (generally speaking) completely ignorant of chant an…

Comment by BGP August 2017 permalink
Is your child texting about Evensong?
"As for Catholic parishes celebrating evensong? This is not something that they could do officially, any more than they could celebrate Byzantine orthros. I think, though, that they could have guest Ordinariate (or Byzantine) folk celebrate it …

Comment by BGP July 2017 permalink
QUILISMA. do not hold
"The verdict is in." would mean it is decisively and definitely proved for all time. These sort of details will be perpetually debatable (barring the discovery of a clear, unambiguous, yet undiscovered explanation from the period stating &…

Comment by BGP July 2017 permalink
Are troped ordinaries permitted in the EF?
Well the texts for the EF (and other liturgies) are contained in the liturgical books, they are trope-less, I wouldn't thing an explicit ban would be needed. The tropes were part of various and assorted local medieval usages (as I understand i…

Comment by BGP July 2017 permalink
Old Solesmes, anti-Solesmes, New Solesmes: The Eternal Question
Thank you M. Jackson Osborn. Yes I think we could have an interesting conversation... I believe we have bumped noses on this subject on here in the past and I remember feeling somewhat misunderstood, of course this medium has it's limits for …

Comment by BGP June 2017 permalink

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