jgirod

French Diocese gets apostolic visitation: be sure to read the whole story
There is probably a bit of truth on both sides. I hereby also respond to the article in the link. The staring point of the case was the dismissal of the previous rector of the seminary. Does this fall under the "management by tornado" c…

Comment by jgirod February 2023 permalink
Prayers: Pastor of St. Eugene-St. Cecilia arrested for Covid violations; under canonical review too
Very precisely, the non-catholic friend of someone who was baptized that night filmed with his cell phone and reported to the police that the priest had baptized several persons with the same water (should he have consecrated as many jars of baptism…

Comment by jgirod April 2021 permalink
elementary school Latin?
Once pupils have some basics, they can start studying Fr. Lhomond's "Epitome historiæ sacræ", which is easier than his other book "De viris illustribus ...". I guess you can find second hand copies.

Comment by jgirod February 2021 permalink
Ward method intro. video series
There's also this one with explanations in German (but there's still the music, which is a universal language): https://youtu.be/Yisb_DjwSJI By the way, searching for "Ward method" returns a lot of results for an homonym mathe…

Comment by jgirod January 2021 permalink
Chants Abrégés
Hello, Incidentally, I discovered that there are comments by "pinyajx" in the document, with the translation of the titles and rubrics from French to English. They appear in the standalone Acrobat Reader or, in a browser, by switching to …

Comment by jgirod January 2021 permalink
Kalenda 2015
The day of the moon is given through an alphabetic letter, which in turn corresponds to the year. A good liturgical calendar should provide it. You can find it for the years to come in a different page of this forum: https://forum.musicasacra.com/f…

Comment by jgirod December 2020 permalink
"Laus in Ecclesia" chant instruction course
Laus in Ecclesia book one has been published by now. It covers the first year (notation reading, latin prononciation and accent, rhythm and some culture about chant and the mass with additional biographies of people who restored/taught chant). The…

Comment by jgirod October 2017 permalink
Recordings from 2017 Colloquium
Has anyone posted pictures or recordings of the summer session at Duquesne?

Comment by jgirod October 2017 permalink
INVITATORY books available - Latin - Overstock UPDATED
Would you ship out of the USA?

Comment by jgirod September 2017 permalink
sheet music for breviary hymns?
For use in the OF, the official book in Latin is Liber Hymnarium (Solesmes 1983). The text is that of Liturgia Horarum, that is, not the reformed text from Urban VIII as in the Roman EF but not quite the traditional text either as in the Antiphonal…

Comment by jgirod September 2017 permalink
Ward method intro. video series
CUA press has (had), in its Justine Ward music method catalogue section, a pack of two cassette tapes with the material from book I.

Comment by jgirod November 2016 permalink
Ward Method Rhythm Question
Hello Daniel, I don't know the official answer, but I would first try to use the eight note as pulse unit (la) so that two sixteenth note become lir-ra (and the fourth note: long). If the sixteenth notes occur rarely, I personally (when studyin…

Comment by jgirod November 2016 permalink
Justine Ward's Chironomy
Should I add that the Justine Ward method should not be learned just out of books (latin has the saying "doctus cum libro"), but you should attend a training to be sure you get everything right and benefit from the teacher making you progr…

Comment by jgirod November 2016 permalink
Ward Method Discussion
Hello, Janet, although I did not attend this one, I felt it was a wonderful idea. I attended the Ward 1 training in France in 1995 and managed to teach 3 children about 10-year old on a weekly basis (on Saturdays) for 2 years, but at this rate we …

Comment by jgirod November 2016 permalink
Roi d'Orient lyrics
Another version is available at http://bmarcore.perso.neuf.fr/noel/P-N002.html In my previous chapel we sang this tune with different lyrics during Advent. By the way, Nicolas Saboly wrote carols with original lyrics in "Provençal" (a dial…

Comment by jgirod January 2013 permalink
mode of Sanctus & Agnus Dei XVIII?
In the Sanctus, up to and excluding the last hosanna, the ti is clearly the dominant. Only mode 3 has such a dominant, but has finale mi. Sol and ti are used as finales, but sol in the middle of sentences — it plays the same role as the flex in ps…

Comment by jgirod December 2012 permalink
mode of Sanctus & Agnus Dei XVIII?
These are good examples for a small course on modality. According to R.F. Dom André Mocquereau (the Musical Number, volume 1, part 2) and to Daniel Saulnier (the Gregorian modes, part 1, chapter 2): the notion of a mode can evolve with places and t…

Comment by jgirod December 2012 permalink
"de Angelis" Gloria alternating with polyphony
Not only was there an alternation between gregorian and polyphony at the Mass at Saint Peter on November 3, but also the day before at the mass for the dead at the Trinity of the Pilgrims. I think this is where the choir (and cantor) came from.

Comment by jgirod November 2012 permalink
Abbreviated Antiphon / Calling anybody who's an expert with the Divine Office
The Codex rubricarum of 1960 has changed the terminology, no more simplex or duplex rites (the semiduplex one had already been suppressed by the 1955 reform) but classes: the third class gathers duplex major and minor. Simplex feasts become memorie…

Comment by jgirod November 2012 permalink
THE WARD METHOD & ODETTE HERTZ
Hello, Angela in each chapter there are several ear and eye tests of graded difficulty, so that all children should be able to get the easier ones and the most advanced children could be tested against the more difficult ones (longer or with a less …

Comment by jgirod June 2012 permalink
THE WARD METHOD & ODETTE HERTZ
Hello all. Eh eh I could buy the french version... One good news is that at least part of it was (silently) brought into the official CUA 1981 edition, like the detailed contents of the first 5 days, or photographs of children singing or making the…

Comment by jgirod January 2012 permalink
Anyone have a copy of "J'irai la voir un jour"?
The natural sign in the score is not in use if France, all F's are sharp.

Comment by jgirod January 2012 permalink
Non-Roman Gospel etc. tones in Roman rite (EF)
The roman tones are the only ones approved. Note by the way that the Benedictines use them for these readings (they do not have different tones there). I would make an exception for special cases in use: the gospel of Easter Vigil and the epistle …

Comment by jgirod January 2012 permalink
Is the Schola to be incensed? (TLM)
The rules for incensation are quite complex; basically the higher clerics (bishops, monsignors) are incensed individually and lower clerics collectively (3 strokes towards the whole group), "intermediate" ones either individually or collec…

Comment by jgirod June 2011 permalink
Salicus or not?
Stephanie, yes it is (until proven otherwise by the manuscripts). The intervals between notes do not influence which neume it is, only the direction (up or down) and sometimes additional signs (like the vertical episema for the salicus in editions…

Comment by jgirod June 2011 permalink
Roll call: who here going to XXI at Dusquene next week?
As the people present have noticed, I joined in :-)

Comment by jgirod June 2011 permalink
Ensemble Organum's authenticity
That the result sound Byzantine is not a wonder: Marcel Peres has been to eastern Europe to study this chant. Before, he was promoting the style of the old cantors from the country in 19-th century up to the middle of the 20-th, claiming they wer…

Comment by jgirod August 2010 permalink
Where did this come from?
Are there currently in the USA anything like Directors of Liturgy who would face the parallel threat of losing their job? If so this could be presented as cutbacks, but I doubt. What is (would be) the exact role of the new director on the liturgy …

Comment by jgirod August 2010 permalink
Practicing polyphony without a section
If it is occasional, you could train one voice to listen at the other present one. When both move in parallel they can then "help" each other when the 3hird voice is present too. If they move differently that won't work that well. …

Comment by jgirod August 2010 permalink
Helping people be receptive to chant
Did you know that some monks/religious/nuns became depressive and it was eventually found out that it was because chant had been suppressed? So I don't believe chant sounds depressive, rather it should bring an overwhelming peace of mind. Now…

Comment by jgirod August 2010 permalink

Welcome to the MusicaSacra Forum!

To participate in the discussions on Catholic church music, sign in or register as a forum member, The forum is a project of the Church Music Association of America.

About

Username: jgirod
Joined: September 2009
Visits: 14
Last Active: February 2023
Roles: Member
Posts: 45
Thanked: 9