Liam

My personal melodic instincts - FWIW, which is nominal at best - are for TI if the line continues upward, and a TA if continues downward - because most amateur singers tend to shade pitch that way a…

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Well, a piece that is likely to be sung this weekend in some places: Flor Peeter's Tantum Ergo Sacramentum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbF6AD49yho

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Perhaps because Mary Star of The Sea has the double meaning of a reference to navigator's reliance on signs in the day and night skies?

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And that's why I believe if TPTB insist on its inclusion during the Mass, it ought to be placed before the Liturgy of The Eucharist.

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"The first and foremost purpose of this organ is in liturgical service of corporate worship of God by his people of this local church. Every other purpose is definitionally and practically subor…

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If the local pastor insisted/commanded (against better judgment) that it be included in a Catholic Mass, I would recommend the poor director of music strongly advise it ought not be as a communion hy…

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It's important to understand that the culture of church law arose in the context of the recovery of Roman civil law texts and traditions in the High Middle Ages; Anglospheric legal culture borro…

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broad “find and replace” paintbrush

A terrible tool in the wrong fingers.

Also terrible is attempting to replicate Latin syntax in a ham-fisted or clumsy way.
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For liturgy (as opposed to recordings and concerts), I am a pitch-for-the-forces-you-have guy. Same for things that congregations sing - and the time of day they sing (might need to be lower at 8AM..…

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Matthew

FWIW, your standards are not too high.

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FWIW, IP (like corporate charters) is a privilege created by the state - it's not "free market", as it were. (In the case of the Anglosphere, the basic statutory roots of copyright go …

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I suspect it triggers people as well because it reinforces the cumulative experience of how much of their work is subject to arbitrary decisions that are announced as fait accompli - this is just fro…

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fcb

in historical development terms, what we might frame as the first "centralization" effort for ritual books and the Latin bible was a ultramontane effort of the Franks* in…

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Yes, yes, and yes to the above and to CharlesW.

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FWIW, I find the operating assumption that the Missal or Gradual propers *always ought* to relate clearly to the lections to be just that, an assumption, and not one shared in fullest vigor by the Mi…

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The usual comparison I've heard over the decades is Russian. That's the reason for hard diction in sung English, and why that diction can carry over into Latin where that's less necess…

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Where are the best English Ordinaries for the Mass?

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"Where" and "What" would be related but not necessarily congruent questions/answers. Any ot…

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Because few if any bishops were ever going to make their priests' singing the dialogues and orations the effective norm for at least Masses on Sundays and other days of precept; the SCR anticipa…

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Chonak

The placement of the sequence - from post-Alleluia to pre-Alleluia - changed in this century with the third edition of the Roman Missal.

GIRM #64: The Sequence w…

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1. Don't contradict the boss to one of his flock. It's a capital offense in Roman Catholicism. No matter how right you are in substance. Unless there's a crime (a real crime) going on.…

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