BGP

All Souls Approaches. This is my adaptation of (Commonwealth Divine Worship/English Office Book/Monastic Diurnal et cetera- the text is nearly identical in multiple sources going back into the 1800s)…

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Please give me honest feedback. I have set the Te Deum to essentially the tone of Gloria 15 Dominus Deus, as it has some similarity in feel to the 'authentic melody' but much easier to sing.

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Yes
Yes
Slightly
No

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I have set the North American form of it to Plainchant. This is very much incomplete and in progress but feedback welcomed.

Edit- I wish they had included the antiphon for the psalms, …

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I just discovered this.

https://archive.org/details/78_psalmody-1-elements-of-psalmody_dr-clifford-bennett-rev-joseph-kush-cgm_gbia8000602a

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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 beli…

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"The era of candles is over we need to transition to incandescent bulbs."

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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.

Th…

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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.

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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 wou…

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Jonathan- that's pretty cool.

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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.

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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 p…

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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 ........
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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 (g…

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"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 …

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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 somewha…

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Kathy, are you trying to stir turds? ;-) My take-

Old Solesmes – by this I take it to mean the practical ideas of Dom Mocquereau including further and continual development by Gajard …

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What specifically are you looking for?

Absolution in Latin was very common until the post V2 conciliar absolution formula came about.

Dominus noster Jesus Christus te a…

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Geremia,

I would recommend the book "Singing in God's Ear" by Dom Nicholson OSB.

Long out of print but you should be able to find it if you go looking. L…

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St. Johns Abbey Press, the copy I am looking at is 1951 with a 1942 imprimatur.
The status/legitimacy singing the English publicly at that time ... ... ..........................

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It exists in a grey covered pamphlet from that era. Not sure who published it. I can look later.

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Not sure if this is allowed, moderators - go ahead and delete if it's not.

I have a number of liturgical books I want to get rid of. Before I put them on ebay I thought I'd m…

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Well, the article I referred to is page 9 here http://media.musicasacra.com/publications/caecilia/caecilia_v82n01_1954_11.pdf
The author speaks as in a way opaque to me at least (I feel like …

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Yes, 'Repleatur' which Tomjaw and Hugh have both posted. I was introduced to it by the Franciscans of the Immaculate and have been trying to track down information on it's history or o…

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Teach them (and if neccesary learn yourself) chant notation and solfege.

And teach them (and yourself if neccesary) to not be afraid of it.

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