WillWilkin

There is an aspect to ecclesiastical hierarchical hymn approval that reminds me that Jesus often criticized the legalism of the pharisees and priests as devoid of the love and mercy and charity he ta…

Thanked by 3francis oldhymns PaxMelodious
I learned MuseScore surprisingly quickly (first day I tried!) with zero previous experience on notation software. I've been creating hymn arrangements with hymn texts. First enter the melody i…

Thanked by 2rich_enough Quaerens
Thanks for posting this! I just registered for my own education, even though I don't see chant on the agenda in my parish. We did just get a new organist, so I'll show this to him this Sund…

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Whatever judgements any of us have regarding the private publishers, I reassert my main idea that it is the responsibility of the church as an institution to form their clergy and musicians in a way …

Thanked by 3mattebery Elmar MarkB
Businesses cater to their market, selling what the customer wants. I don't blame private publishers for the condition of Catholic music. Rather to me it seems the church itself must take respo…

Thanked by 4mattebery CHGiffen Marc Cerisier CharlesW
I am sometimes late for choir at mass on Sundays, just by a few minutes but missing the opening hymn. I am embarrassed and regretful but, not asking for any understanding or excuse, still I say it&#…

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JCR, I happen to have a CD called La Musique de la Bible Revélée (on the Harmonia Mundia France label) which attempts to recreate ancient Hebrew music. The liner notes describe the work of Suzanne Ha…

Thanked by 3hilluminar CHGiffen M. Jackson Osborn
Am I correct that the parish music director reports to the parish pastor and serve at his pleasure? Or that, whatever the titles and positions serving as music ministers, again, it is all at the dis…

Thanked by 4CharlesW Carol MarkB a_f_hawkins
When I was a kid, in the early 1970s, at the same church where we had a folk mass, I also heard the entire mass sung by the priest. In English, but still SUNG in a Gregorian-style mode/melody. I LO…

Thanked by 3PaxMelodious Carol CharlesW
But who can presume to actually know what music God might prefer? Personally I prefer Gregorian chant but where in the Gospels do we read of Jesus chanting? My guess is his Latin wasn't very g…

Thanked by 2CharlesW PaxMelodious
When I was a kid and my mother still a young woman, I heard at home a lot of records by the Bill Gaither Trio, Joe Wise, Dan Schutte and the St. Louis Jesuits, and other similar music I can't na…

Thanked by 6Dcamp eft94530 PaxMelodious Elmar Carol toddevoss
I'd be inclined to agree more with the statement that most people are trying to do what is good for the Church, or at least what they believe. That said, I have no doubt that there are also many…

Thanked by 1canadash
I joined 2 choirs (both under the same director) because I knew I was a bad singer yet also loved sining and want to learn. That was 2 years ago, and though not yet a "good" singer, I now …

Thanked by 4Banjoyist Richard R. Carol CHGiffen
Catholic Music through the Ages: Balancing the Needs of a Worshipping Church, by Edward Schaefer:

https://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Music-through-Ages-Worshipping/dp/1595250204

Thanked by 1rich_enough
From the notes by James Day in the booklet with my Musical Heritage Society CD of A Vaughan Williams Hymnal:

QUOTE:

During his time at Trinity College, Cambridge, where …

Thanked by 1Carol
I just want to thank CGM for listing the Norwalk St. Mary's chant camp above. My 18yo son Justin is registered and I intend to take off from work the last day of that week so I can hear him sin…

Thanked by 3janetgorbitz Kathy Carol
Again thanks MUCH to all who shared suggestions and insights in this discussion. Mixing the advice here with my budget limitations and intuition on my son's abilities and tastes, here is the li…

Thanked by 1M. Jackson Osborn
I can say that, without exception, the few people I've known who I had no doubt were gay --were very excellent people, kind and loving, gentle and good to others. I consider myself very Catholi…

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