Are you a Forum "regular" or "newbie" with a music blog? (And no, it doesn't have to be sacred music.)
I'm updating my list of interesting blogs for my own Sacred Miscellany. So I'd like to hear from you. You can email me privately if you're shy. Or you can put up the information here.
If you want to do that, I recommend you explore the world of live links so people can get to you quickly. I was converted to this cause by Jeffrey Tucker in his inspirational article, Learn to link or die.
A number of people know that I've been maintaining Sacred Music Coach for the past year. It started as a way to provide pointers to the Colloquium recordings, and has expanded from there.
In fact, we are getting ready to launch one this week. I'm still putting the finishing touches on it, so I'm not inclined to put out the URL just yet. I'm actually giving a presentation on it at our staff meeting tomorrow morning, at which point we're be signing up staffers who want a voice and putting it live. I'mm post the URL once it's official.
While I do have a 'blog, it is not music specific; however, I will occassionally comment on things liturgical and/or musical. A Wing And A Prayer is my very humble "infinitesimal corner of the universe."
I know there are more of you out there! I have seen them.
I do have a music/liturgy-specific blog. I have been rather negligent in updating it lately, however, due to a relaxed summer schedule! :-) marajoy.blogspot.com
Mine is more of a general blog on "matters Catholic", but I sometimes talk about musical/liturgical happenings in my parish (a "personal" or "national" parish for Polonia by canonical definition).
I've been remiss in keeping it up, but I do maintain it as best I can.
I write for a group blog, Catholic Light, along with canon lawyer Pete Vere, choir director John Schultz, and political writer Eric Johnson.
Just yesterday I posted a great conference talk by Bishop Athanasius Schneider, on finding a correct reading of the documents of Vatican II (against the "interpretation of rupture"). Some other sites have picked up the story and my translation, including Fr. Z and CWN.
I run LatinMassNYC.org. I also have a personal blog,The Stone Owl, which these days is mostly a commonplace book, and most of the people who read it and/or comment do so via FaceBook.
I don't post as regularly as I should and most posts are a bit half-baked, but I hope that it will eventually be a useful resource for anyone else starting out as a church organist.
http://jeffreyquick.wordpress.com Warning: topics covered in order of frequency: Politics, religion, music. If you believe in a state with strong redistributive powers, save yourself the blood pressure and don't go there. Not as active these days.
Mine's quite similar to Jeffrey's: politics, religion, and sacred music, with a little bit (like 2 posts :) of running thrown in for good measure. Unlike Jeffrey's, I keep it quite active!
I have (slowly) been consolidating my (non-cafe) writing to a single blog, which now has my writing on liturgy, sacred music, and theology, and also my hymns, poetry (Serious and silly), and thoughts on other topics I'm interested in (computer science, economics, the Open Source movement).
I started one as my own project for the Year of Faith, to collect many of bulletin articles, etc (they haven't all made it on yet, but we'll work on it). All about liturgy, music, etc: http://ohfortheloveofchant.wordpress.com/
I don't really have a blog, but I have a website where I - post my free editions of public domain scores, sortable by title, composer, or liturgical function - sell my own compositions (not free, but not particularly pricey) - I have some old ruminations about church music - and 12 years of motet selections from my previous parish (scroll down to the bottom of the page to jump around from year to year)
I have three blogs, which are all basically collections of videos, so not terribly interesting, but for what it's worth, I have: a blog with resources for my chant group; a sacred music blog; and I suppose the newest one should therefore be called a profane music blog, though I will try to avoid posting anything offensive to pious ears!
In october i've started a blog My private Antiphonale for the Liturgia Horarum. There i'm publishing daily Latin Vespers according to the Liturgia Horarum with Gregorian Chant. I've obtained a generous permission by the Libreria Editrice Vaticana to publish the non free texts from the LH, too (such as the newly written hymns and orations, and possibly also the Latin Bible texts from the Neovulgata whose copyright status is unclear)
No, no blog in my case. Never did have one, never will have one. Many (about half) of my published articles end up on www.rjstove.net/articles.html - either as hyperlinks or as PDF documents, the latter, of course, eminently removable if the original publisher wants them removed - but by no means all of these articles are related to any sort of music, let alone to sacred music. There are quite a few dead links on this page which, when I can afford to pay my webmaster for the task of removing them (I'm not tech-savvy enough to do it myself), will be removed. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
No blog! Information overload is bad enough without adding another blog to the problem. I occasionally will read someone else's - and I do mean occasionally, as in not often.
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