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Congregational (mis)Counting with The Strife Is O'er (VICTORY)
Yes, the amateur singers don’t count, and always try to cheat/shorten the dotted half notes.

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Unseasonal Question: Offertory Hymn for Epiphany for small choir
“Brightest and best of the sons of the morning” is a classic Epiphany hymn.

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Jubilate Deo Booklet
Thank you

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Jubilate Deo Booklet
Finally listened to those recordings. The "Alleluia tempore paschali" is interesting. I don't see it in any Jubilate Deo booklet. Has anyone seen it in print anywhere as a melody for the chant before the Gospel?

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Splashy polyphony for a concert program
The Randall Thompson Alleluia would make a nice contrast with your current selections. Bieble Ave Maria. If you are limited to Renaissance, the Handl Duo Seraphim is very effective, but is for SATB.satb Ave Maria… Virgo Serena by Josquin would contr…

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Triduum Music Lists
How did your Veneration of the Cross work out time-wise? Ours took 40 minutes. We sang all of Reproaches I, all of Faithful Cross, the whole Stabat Mater, and What Wondrous love is this.

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"Lord, you give the great commission" to Hyfrydol?
In no way was it ridiculous to not use AUSTRIA. My grandfather used to say that Adolf Hitler stole three years of his life (18-21). He came back with health problems from standing in a foxhole full of water for three days in the Battle of the Bulge …

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Triduum Music Lists
Thursday adult choir Lift High the cross Kyrie: Missa l’Hora Passa - Viadana Gloria: Mass of St Francis - Buchholz Gradual Chants : Source and Summit Mandatum: Latona Missa Primitiva - Latin Adoremus te Christe - DuBois Jesu Rex admirabilis - Palest…

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I Hate Latin discussion
Since the Laws of Congregational Singing are: 1. Congregations only sing songs they like. 2. Congregations only like songs they know. 3. Congregations only know songs their church sang in childhood. then it stands to reason that exposing children to…

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Liturgy of the Hours Details (Help please!)
1. Usually people sit

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English Translation of the Proper Antiphons
I think it is being very generous to say that the Missal Antiphons were for read masses while the Graduale was for sung masses. I think this is an idea that was devised after the fact as an explanation for the ridiculous Novus Ordo system that had b…

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English Translation of the Proper Antiphons
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English Translation of the Proper Antiphons
Liam, isn’t it a subordinate clause? Are you saying that a subordinate clause is archaic? It’s not idiomatic to replace “who” with “you.” It’s fake translating.

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English Translation of the Proper Antiphons
Isn’t the “official” vs “unofficial” concern just a way to get around pastors and parishioners who dislike tradition and don’t want there to be chant? “This is the official text, so it would be better to sing this than Here I Am Lord.” The fact is,…

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Just read the Gia Quarterly...ouch.
There is value in published choral music, composed or edited by leading musicians. It’s professional. CPDL stuff is sometimes good, but frequently quirky and unprofessional. Part of building the institutional longevity of a parish is building its ch…

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Just read the Gia Quarterly...ouch.
GIA and OCP do have some lines of choral octavos that are worth pursuing. GIA does a Pueri Cantores series, also stuff edited by Richard Proulx. And they publish some good modern compositions ( like the Latona Mandatum). OCP’s Trinitas series of ch…

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Just read the Gia Quarterly...ouch.
I love researching and building a program out of free music. But I have advanced degrees, have spent years researching the options. Nobody who replaces me is going to do that. They won’t even pick the decent hymns out of a GIA hymnal. However, if I…

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Novus Ordo Francis Burgess propers (AUG)
Thanks. Thats the answer I was afraid of.

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Novus Ordo Francis Burgess propers (AUG)
Having reached completion in the arranging/engraving side, I now have run into ICEL copyright. My impression is that distributing this for free on the internet will not trigger any royalty issues with ICEL, but that printing and selling copies would…

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Novus Ordo Francis Burgess propers (AUG)
Here is a first draft of the whole thing, currently called the St. Francis Gradual. Entrance-Gradual-Alleluia-Offertory-Communion for Sundays-Solemnities-Feasts. There are probably typos, please let me know if you see any.

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Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
His Three Latin Motets, probably

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For NO peoples... Regarding changing psalmody sets
If learning psalm responses by ear is a problem, I found this collection to be easy to pick up: https://sites.google.com/view/magdalenesacredmusic/service-music/responsorial-psalms-meinrad-tones?authuser=0 It’s incomplete, but you could easily point…

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For NO peoples... Regarding changing psalmody sets
We ended with R&A when we discontinued Breaking Bread during Covid. I sampled from various sources for a while, musical congregants didnt like learning them by ear. We now have Source and Summit. Congregants like that what is sung matches what …

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Tenebrae
Francis Burgess published an edition of the 3 tenebrae services in English, set to Gregorian melodies and simple fauxbordons. Thursday https://giamusic.com/resource/maundy-thursday-tenebrae-print-grp16 Friday https://giamusic.com/resource/good-frida…

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"Lord, you give the great commission" to Hyfrydol?
That’s an amalgamation of several harmonizations. Anyone who would try to take copyright credit for that would be a fraud.

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When can the Cherubic Hymn be sung in the Roman rite?
No, there’s no cultural appropriation.

Comment by davido February 2024 permalink
Lent II at...
It would be very interesting to know what hymnal everyone uses (or if hymns are in worship aid)

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How to incorporate ladies into the schola/choir
I have heard renditions of the gradual that I wished were psalm toned because it wasn’t that well sung.

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Mass setting selection
Mass of St Francis by Horst Buchholz. Best English mass setting.

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Count the liturgical atrocities
One might almost says bishops and priests are the “jailers of tradition.” Or is it “guardians of tradition?…” Or is it “guardians of the galaxy?…” One does get so confused

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