Richard Mix

Gloria Patri sung by assembly at Introit?
Our 8:00 AM congregation used to be very good at the vii tone Glory be, with psalm-toned introit (which gave me very few Sundays on which I could use the full melodies). I thought I might ween them by including G.P. with the Communion, and now they …

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DEBATE: Prioritize scholas/choirs over cantors
Jealousy and animosity can be found among amateurs, to be sure. But our church wouldn't have Gregorian chant If I hadn't started including it as solos. I also can't quite imagine having a choir at the 8:00 AM Mass, perhaps only becaus…

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Triduum (Holy Week) 2025 Music lists
Will the subject line be edited for spelling? St. David of Wales, Richmond Calif. Holy Thursday bilingual Mass, in plainchant except processional At that first Eucharist UNDE ET MEMORES Gloria VIII Calicem accipies Postquam surrexit & other an…

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Tenebrae this Wednesday in SF Bay Area with Palestrina Lamentations, Book 4
I'd be very delighted to meet you, and any other forum members! Here's my program essay. The Tenebrae or ‘shadow’ services of Holy week, so named from the custom of extinguishing a candle after each Lesson, are from the night-time Offic…

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Palm/Passion Sunday
We recessed in silence. Just before the 11:00 our 9:30 Priest clapped me on the back and said "Have a lovely…" My eyes widened and I expected "…crucifixion" but he continued with "…celebration."

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Stations of the Cross with motets, tonight Friday 21 March 2025 in SF Bay Area
I don't see "Jessus fall" But thanks for "humbled"!

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Stations of the Cross with motets, tonight Friday 21 March 2025 in SF Bay Area
Always one more to catch (8. O thou Mother fount):

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One parish, two worship sites, two different song lists
Merged but with two sites? We now share priests with a nearby parish, in what was announced as a 'cluster'.

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5vv Tenebrae Responsories?
I have fond memories of Kuhnau's Tristis with Richard Sparks a few decades ago but am unsure of our high notes. Giacobetti is worth investigating, though, thanks!

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Stations of the Cross with motets, tonight Friday 21 March 2025 in SF Bay Area
Here's the latest pass.

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We Songs
somewhat loath to see it relegated to the trash heap I would have expected Te Deum to be the first victim of this (rather odd) plan.

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ICEL translation versus a new USCCB-approved translation of Easter Sequence Victimae Paschali Laudes
A congregation can certainly get it. Take advantage of the Octave on Divine Mercy too and you'll be pleasantly surprised the following year.

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“It’s easy to mistake emotional manipulation for a movement of God, right?”
There is another consideration beyond weight, grammatical or accentual, and that is the quality of the vowel itself: something to keep in mind when englishing. Which syllable gets the jubilus? I'm struggling to remember which renaissance theori…

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Loking for singable translation of Easterhymn about "Haec dies"
Praise what? "The glory of…"

Comment by Richard Mix March 2025 permalink
ICEL translation versus a new USCCB-approved translation of Easter Sequence Victimae Paschali Laudes
Some time ago I hand penciled "Christians to the Paschal victim offer your grateful praises" into some 200 pew hymnals.

Comment by Richard Mix March 2025 permalink
The Hymnal Industrial Complex
Is someone trying to make me feel bad about using the Kyriale's option XVII? It's not so obvious which way the order of preference ought to go, if there indeed is one. Couldn't number 1 have been the 'pastoral' option to ke…

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Laus Tibi Christe Rex Aeternae Gloriae
We use the popular adaptation of Orbis factor. I suppose if one really wanted polyphony something from Machault, Codex Faenza, or Frescobaldi might do. The monophonic chant is less distracting at that point in the Mass, imho.

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Stations of the Cross with motets, tonight Friday 21 March 2025 in SF Bay Area
The title, yes, unfortunately. I used the cropping feature of the old Illuminari interface.

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Stations of the Cross with motets, tonight Friday 21 March 2025 in SF Bay Area
We'd be delighted to have you for a quinta vox anytime! I fixed a few typos in our booklet, and then noticed even more tonight. Always grateful for any crowd-sourced proofreading. The congregation was undaunted, thankfully.

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Choir Singing Out
Speaking for myself, I find the more annoyed I am the more it pays to proofread.

Comment by Richard Mix March 2025 permalink
New hymn text for St Joseph
Another lovely 9898 tune is Du gabst, o Herr, mir Sein und Leben, the Offertory of Schubert's Deutsche Messe. Not such a good match for "The day thou gavest" though, as "ascended" falls on the striking descending octave.

Comment by Richard Mix March 2025 permalink
Choir Singing Out
We all speak English, but it seems we don't necessarily agree about punctuation. On a third pass it's apparent that the meaning was Instead of making us use our voices better, he wanted us to conform to a more operatic style so that he di…

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Does anyone know of a good version of the Angelus in English?
"Mary" has two syllables, hence two notes.

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Looking for "lively" Motets for the Easter Season
We never sing anything other than Peter Philips.

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Congregations which have learned pieces incorrectly?
GROSSER GOTT may be a lost cause, though a deceptive cadence will remove any doubt about the repeat at least. CCH has the version of LORDES prevalent on the wrong side of the Gulf of Mexico and our congregation will follow the organ, while still doi…

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Musing: Responses
And yet they are harmonized in a source from Lassus' circle (SWnR 25 p. 195).

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Non-Christian Music Directors Now Approved for the Catholic Church
It's an old question, whether the devil should have all the good tunes and the Unitarians first pick of freelance musicians. I've always felt it an honor to serve at temple on High Holy Days. The cited precedent there is Solomon's cho…

Comment by Richard Mix March 2025 permalink
St David's Day in California
Here we go again: Here's an invitation to sing Vespers for St. David of Wales at St. David of Wales Church this St. David's Day, March 1. Singers will meet in the rectory garage (6541 Esmond Ave, Richmond 94805, across the corner from the…

Comment by Richard Mix February 2025 permalink
Original Music for Psalms
I'm not sure about 'four feet good; three feet bad', but I am curious how the congregation would know when to come in: do you visually cue the refrain ( I do agree with Chonak that it's well fashioned for repeating by ear, if a b…

Comment by Richard Mix February 2025 permalink
Original Music for Psalms
19. The employment of the piano is forbidden in church, as is also that of noisy or frivolous instruments such as drums, cymbals, bells and the like. I havn't read Tra le sollicitudine for quite a while, and must have missed the part about no b…

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