Thank you!

One more:

6. What city/state are you? If you don't mind, you can include parish name too. :)

1. Three Masses of five for sure, not sure about the others, though.
2. In what capacity? In the proper liturgical places, in addition to hymns
3. With adults/children? Adults
4. How many of the antiphons? Depends on the length/complexity of the antiphons. Sometimes at the beginning and end, sometimes after each verse. Sometimes it's solo, schola, basses only, trebles only, mixed.
5. Are you a cantor, choir member, or MD? Choir director
6. Toronto

(BTW, some people are having some difficulty here too.)

All three antiphons.
Sundays with a bilingual parish.
Fridays at a school mass (different parish).
Children's schola. They're great.
Organ accompaniments (posted in another thread).

Not a music director.
Cantor/organist.
Part-time at both parishes.
(neither has a music director)

Hey Charles,
Just curious if you guys use the organ accompaniments.
You're a heavy-hitter so I'm interested. :)

1. In use at our parish, at all 3 weekend Masses
2. Introit is sung before an entrance hymn. When we begin using the Communion, it will replace the hymn
3. Cantor at 2 Masses, full choir (mixed adults and older children) at 1
4. Currently just the Introit; will be adding the Communion at the beginning of Lent
5. Full-time music director
6. St. Dunstan, Garden City, MI

Yes, we are. At Christ the King School in Oklahoma City.

1. At every weekly school Mass, a mix between Anglican Use Gradual and SEP.
2. Mostly at the Communion proper, occasionally Offertory.
3. Children, ages 8-11.
4. Usually one, occasionally two.
5. I'm the school music teacher, and the parish MD plays organ for the Mass.

The SEP are great tools for learning and teaching. Every week, I have little girls saying "That thing is a punctum mora, but we forgot to get softer!" or little boys saying "Hey look! That's a horizontal episema; hold it longer, you guys!" Thank you, Mr. Bartlett.

@Richard Mix
Is EFT still organist at St. David's? (I was in parish in 80's, tho' was DM at St. John the Baptist in El Cerrito for ten years.)

ElizabethS - thank you for sharing this. Believe it or not, it is reminiscent of times past - nearly 30 years ago - but then guitars, drums, hootenanny, and groovy groove were all the rage. I barely made a difference, except to a few, and my efforts went largely unappreciated.

1. One Mass per week, plus all holy days and confirmation, Solemnities
2. Introits. Communions acapella, sometimes we find a congregation antiphonl to alternate with the schola's propers.
3. both
4. at least 2 antiphons or a Latin proper
5. a pianorganist
all ordinaries are chant and we always do one happy-smiley song per week.
We sing Fr Kelly's and Fr. Weber's Chants too.

We don't impress or entertain. Humility is a core spiritual value.

While I agree that drawing attention to self shouldn't be the goal of any musician at Mass, too much emphasis on this point has been the core of mediocrity in music performance in the liturgy for decades. Performance is simply the means by which music is accomplished.

Someone should ask the above deacon if he sings the Exsultet in a solo voice. Does he hold something back? Why or why not?

Clement, as much as I appreciate being addressed by my preferred nickname, I think you've misunderstood (at best) or misappropriated (at worst) that quote out of context to support your assertions. To what end I'm not sure.
Your understanding of the role of the leader of song is apt and would that there were most of these folks who didn't view their roles as Mr/Ms Caruso's, we'd all be the better for that. But the official roles of Cantor and Psalmist are quite distinct from that, though in practice often combined to some degree.
There is substantial legislation that has been cited to the Nth degree by many authorities and scholars that the chanting of the propers (specifically) is officially assigned to a schola or choir only, and in their stead a chanter qualified to be a Cantor in the more antiquated and official understanding of that role. (And mention should be made that this "solo" Cantor is not in the German or European model where it generally means the Dirigent, or DM of parish music.) The Cantor would also chant the Gradual and Alleluia/Tract verses (and antiphon if a schola isn't present) quite licitly under the GIRM as I understand it. But....
The more interesting issue, for moi, is that why would you take issue in my direction? I personally make distinctions that are not in concord with those authorities and scholars and have accounted for that in two distinct postings at Cafe and Optima Musica. In addition I have concurred with your broader assertion of FACP that allows and encourages congregational singing of vernacular proper processionals (by Tietze, Rice, Bartlett, P.Ford, Pluth and their progenitors) whenever and wherever possible.
And mysteriously to the max, where did you come up with the idea that I endorse the notion of the operatic song leader? I don't possess that ability nor practice that sort of abuse personally, nor never recall advancing that notion.
Where's the beef?

I use the SEP Offertory and Communion chants at both Masses at our small parish each weekend. When I first began using the SEP chants, I started with the Offertory chant instead of a hymn. Since I had eliminated a hymn, we got many complaints. Now I have the congregation and choir sing an offertory hymn and then I follow up with singing just the antiphon (no psalm verses) of the Offertory proper just before Fr. begins his ablutions.

For the Communion chant, I sing it right after the peoples' chanted response of "Lord, I am not worthy..." Sometimes I sing one of the psalm verses, but mostly not, depending on the length of the chant. After that, the choir receives Communion, after which we all sing a hymn.

For both propers, I sing them unaccompanied by myself. I tried, early on, to teach the cantors to read the square note notation so that they could either sing them solo or with me, but it proved to be of no interest to them (and they just didn't want to do it), so at least for now, that's the situation. I knew my tenure at this parish would be short, so I have not insisted on this issue with the singers. I now frequently receive positive comments from the people in the parish.

One thing I do to increase information for the people is provide the text of the propers for each week in the same handout as the weekly list of songs to be sung during Mass. It seems to help with the message that these antiphons are not arbitrary, but are proper to the Mass.

I should mention that my pastor is very supportive of chant and has made a huge effort himself to chant as much of his part as he can during the Mass. Our parish sings all the Missal chant ordinaries each week and has done very well with it. We even sang the Credo at Christmas and are gearing up to do it again for Easter. (Gearing up means plenty of refresher time with the choir at rehearsal and short practices of it before Mass with the people for 3-4 weekends before Easter to try to teach them -- or at least those of them who don't slip into the church moments before the opening hymn starts!).

Forgot to mention... I am parish music director for a military parish at Warner Robins AFB, GA.

My colleague and I are using a mix of the Roman Gradual, SEP, Fr. Weber's Simple Gradual, Willans' Introits and Psalm-tone settings from the (alas, no-longer) Gregorian Institute of America.

1) 2 of 3 weekend Masses (Sunday 8:00 and 10:30), and 5 of 6 daily Masses (Tues pm - Sat am; the Monday am is silent)

2) In proper Liturgical places and some hymns and motets ("stuffed Mass") except in Lent at the 10:30 Mass we have nixed the offertory Hymn and sing only the antiphon and verses.

3) Adults and Children mixed. Sometimes sung by cantor(s) or choir or sections based on difficulty and variety.

4) All three antiphons (Introit, Offertory and Communion) and the Tract in Lent at 10:30.

5) I am organist and DM, and director of the St. Cecilia Choir (sings at 10:30 Sunday), and a tenor/cantor with the St. Gregory Choir (8:00 Sunday)

6) Our Lady of Czestochowa, Turners Falls, Mass.

As far as I know we are the only parish in the deanery that uses chant on a daily basis, and people have remarked at how holy and sacred it sounds (well, yeah! That's why its called "Sacred Music" after all!), whether its sung by a full choir or just a single cantor.

One thing that can make a difference when it comes to "solo" music is the position of the choir. We sing in a gallery, so the only thing that people can see when they look up is the director's/organist's back, which helps, I think, to get rid of the "performance" aspect since we're not up in front.

Perhaps Rev'd Pastor might want to introduce Rev'd Mr Deacon to the GIRM, or perhaps send him to the Colloquium this summer!

Respectfully, Clement VII, I'm really not sure what beef you have with Charles. Your posts don't seem to correspond.

Now to the poll:
1.) We are using the SEP for the Introit, which we sing after we begin with the Processional Hymn (omitted during Lent); the priest processes up during the final verse and then, as he approaches the altar and, on occasion, incenses it, we sing the Proper refrain, vs. 1, the Glory Be and then the refrain again. We sing the Communion Antiphon in its duration and follow it with a Communion Hymn taken from the St. Michael Hymnal.

2.) We use these for every one of the four Saturday evening, Sunday Morning Masses, be it with our two choirs or our cantors.

3.) The children and adults both sing from them. I also write the Introit chant for every Friday morning school Mass, sung usually by the 5th and 6th grade choir (around 32 kids total).

4.) We sing the Introit and the Communion. Not the Offertory, yet.

5.) I am the music director/organist. We sing them a cappella.

6.) Sioux Falls, South Dakota

1. SEP for 3 Mass as on Sundays, sung by choir or schola. Replaced by antiphons from the Graduale Romanum on solemnities.
2. For Introit, antiphon only, before hymn; except when we can get away with inverting that order. For Communio, antiphon only at the beginning (and sometimes at the end) of Communion.
3. Yes, adults and children.
4. Introit and Communio.
5. Music director
6. Leawood, Kansas