This is from last week, live in liturgy. we are singing Domine non sum dignus, by Victoria. Sorry about the coughs etc. etc., oh and change dropping into the offering basket. Obviously not professional and blah blah blah. But here you go.
We are 10 singers, no one paid (you might think, for good reason, ha!)
I got a very nice portable recorder (a Zoom H2) and have been recording Masses and workshops. It's a very useful tool, as I hear a lot of additional things (both good and bad) which aren't apparent when I'm singing. I have also put clips on our website, so the schola members can more clearly hear what I'm talking about.
Thank you! We were actually very pleased but of course no non-professional recording sounds right to our ears that are used to to near perfection in our CD collection.
SOME PEOPLE get bad results by clicking the PLAY button: if you hear messed up sound, please click DIRECTLY on the link (directly on the file) and it should sound fine
Here is my contribution to "brave schola director submits live recording" (My goodness, this takes guts!!)
ADORAMUS TE CHRISTE Recorded by our Schola Cantorum (Corpus Christi, Texas) at rehearsal on March 16, 2009
AVE MARIA Recorded by our Schola Cantorum (Corpus Christi, Texas) at rehearsal on March 16, 2009
O SACRUM CONVIVIUM (some tuning issues) Recorded by our Schola Cantorum (Corpus Christi, Texas) at rehearsal on March 16, 2009
Having been threatened with an early death by the author of the aforementioned article, I shall review the instructions and post something after this evening's vespers.
And that first time in parts is always thrilling. Congratulations to Carl D and company.
That is a great piece. My choir is working that one now. Our arrangement is a little different. Our arrangement is from cpdl and attributed to Rosselli.
I love it, too. My arrangement was also from CPDL. It says it's attributed to Palestrina, but the ascending chromatic bass line tells me it's been modified at some point. I know I've heard it with a more "Palestrina-like" bass.
I'm just so proud of my choir because they're college students, and the most eager-to-please singers I've ever met. People my age (40's) tend to be more jaded, in my opinion. But this whole experience of organist/choir director (and I have NO experience directing a choir - I haven't had my first choral conducting classes yet!) has been one of the most satisfying things I've ever done, particularly mentoring the college students. The good performance is just the icing on the cake.
I'll be attending the Sacred Music Colloquium for the first time this year, and I know I'll gain invaluable information about all of this.
Jeff O -- thanks for the recordings and the link to the article. I just broke down and ordered a book about html code last week when I was quite embarrassed by finding out how simple this linking thing really is and realizing my own ignorance was holding me back.
Guadalupe -- thank you for your recordings...
Alas, my little schola isn't ready for polyphony... but our chant is coming along. Perhaps someday...
I truly love CMAA!!! and am an awe of all of you!
(You'll notice I havent put anything on yet-although im trying to convince myself to do so. Its daunting after hearing all of you!)
I will jump in, here are some file from my beginner chant group - Maria Regina Caeli Schola. Offered 1st. Sunday of Advent, the third time we have assisted at Mass.
Here is Introit from the first Sunday of Advent. Our schola started work 4 weeks ago (with the current singers) and all members are not professionals [except the director :) ]. We sing propers every two/three weeks and every Sunday we support people with singing ordinary of the Tridentine Mass in Lublin, Poland.
We did not have any good sound recorder, so this recording is completely amateurish and unprocessed : Introit. And here are some pictures from our masses: Pictures.
Score on Choral Wiki here: http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/sheet/pal_cc16.pdf
Surge, amica mea, speciosa mea et veni,
columba mea in foraminibus petrae, in caverna maceriae,
ostende mihi faciem tuam, sonet vox tua in auribus meis:
vox enim tua dulcis et facies tua decora.
Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the cliff, show me your face, let your voice sound in my ears;
for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.
My only comment: we were, of necessity, one to a part on this - I think it's more a big choir piece. (Some parts doubled with brass would be nice. One is permitted to dream.)
Score on Choral Wiki here: http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/sheet/clem-ego.pdf
Ego flos campi et lilium convallium.
Sicut lilium inter spinas sic amica mea inter filias.
Fons hortorum et puteus aquarum viventium
quae fluunt impetu de Libano.
(Bride:) I am the flower of the field and the lily of the valleys.
(Bridegroom:) As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
The fountain of gardens: a well of living waters,
Which run with a strong stream from Lebanon.
Choir: "Psallamus" - mixed amateur choir for the EF Mass community at St Aloysius' Caulfield, Melbourne, Australia.
Let's keep posting recordings - It's a humbling experience but a great way for us to move forward.
Fragment (23 seconds) seen and heard here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmWstu7jjYQ SATB sung by parish choir, some keyboard notes played by a violinist, some keyboard notes played by a cellist, most keyboard notes played by organist :-) (most notes on enclosed flutes of Antiphonal division [left of sanctuary clearly visible], trumpet notes on Walker digital trumpet of Great division [above main entrance barely visible at video beginning left edge]).
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Maybe someone needs to check their comment handwritten HTML?
Wisdom! Be attentive! Not every link really ought be made clickable, especially when your URL to direct traffic to a site will provide analytics about the source, which in turn might discount your input based on that source.
Forgive my internet ignorqnce, but how does one post an audio file like those on here? I have tried through the [ + ] Attachments section listed below but with no success.
Usually, it works best if you upload the mp3 file to your own web site (e.g., if your Internet provider gives you one along with your account). Then you can just post a link to the file here, and the forum software will automatically decorate it with the "play" button.
Here's part 1 (other parts also on Youtube) of a small group of which I'm part chanting First Vespers on New Year's Eve. I put the music together following the Liturgy of the Hours using Latin introduction, antiphons and Magnificat, but pointing the psalms and other prayers in English. I based much of it on the tones of Fr. Weber from the Mundelein Psalter.
It was the first time we've sung vespers and I thought it went well on only 1 hour of rehearsal with myself and one other singer. The rest had the music ahead of time, but we only all sang together for the half hour before the liturgy. The group is (as you can tell) made of men of various degrees of skill, from basically a non-musician to a man with a music degree from St. Olaf. It was a schola made up "of the willing." Overall, I thought it was a success (as did my pastor who chanted with us) and vespers will be repeated in the future, hopefully on a more and more regular basis.
Our schola couldn't have sung these pieces, and many others, without the generosity of the CMAA and this forum, in providing the instructional materials for learning chant and the texts and music to sing. Thank you!
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