SteveOttomanyi

Suggestion for Benedictus missing in Música Colonial source
I doubt the original voicing was listed as STTB. One will see music from this region in this time right up through the repertoire of the California missions in somewhat ambiguous-looking voicing--whether it is STTB, SATB, ATTB, etc. It is almost ce…

Comment by SteveOttomanyi February 19 permalink
Cathedrals banning Latin is still a thing (unfortunately). (NOTE: Correction below.)
@saintier I sent you a pm

Comment by SteveOttomanyi September 2025 permalink
Choral Christmas Mass Ordinary
@Jonathan_Culbreath, thanks for reminding me! He is a dear, dear man, a stellar composer, and has been very supportive of my research. He presented me with a lovely autographed copy. I think we shall use it this year--I believe on the Feast of the H…

Comment by SteveOttomanyi August 2025 permalink
Eastertide choir burnout?
I confirm this is still true in 2025, lol. It's the way things just sorta dribble out toward the end. Christmas is like being hit by a bullet train. >>WHAM

Comment by SteveOttomanyi August 2025 permalink
Choral Christmas Mass Ordinary
@Cmanfro, I sent you a PM with a link.

Comment by SteveOttomanyi August 2025 permalink
Singing advice when you are in an area with poor air quality
I'm director of music at a parish that was within the evacuation zone in the Eaton Fire in the Los Angeles area this past January. Mandatory evac zone was two blocks north for about 3 months. The slightest breeze and we got ash and smoke everyw…

Comment by SteveOttomanyi August 2025 permalink
Candlemas 2025 Music Lists
Saint Andrew Catholic Church Old Pasadena, CA Candlemas (instead of OTC 4) Introit, Offertory, Communion chanted at all Masses according to the Solemn Method and, at certain Masses, mostly cantor-organ Masses, according to the Rhetorical School. …

Comment by SteveOttomanyi February 2025 permalink
Christmas 2023
Saint Andrew Catholic Church Old Town Pasadena, California Fourth Sunday of Advent Mass Schedule Saturday 5:00 pm Vigil Mass with cantor and organ 6:30 am Spanish Mass with cantor and organ 8:00 am English Mass with cantor and organ 9:30 am Englis…

Comment by SteveOttomanyi January 2024 permalink
hymn for SSPP
@PhinneasPublick, that was me. I sent you a PM.

Comment by SteveOttomanyi November 2023 permalink
Dominican Rite locations in US
St. Dominic in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California occasionally celebrates this rite.

Comment by SteveOttomanyi June 2021 permalink
Sacris solemniis English translation
tomjaw, thank you, and I saw that website, too. Clearly, it did not have what I was looking for. It was one of the first results in the Google search, which I did do.

Comment by SteveOttomanyi June 2021 permalink
Sacris solemniis English translation
LOL! Thank you, GerardH, I think you might be right. A wild goose chase this may be!

Comment by SteveOttomanyi June 2021 permalink
Sacris solemniis English translation
At least that verse is in Matthew Britt's 1922 The Hymns of the Breviary and Missal. If you can find a hard or searchable copy, you may be able to track it down. I looked under Corpus Christi but Britt uses a different translation there. Kathy…

Comment by SteveOttomanyi June 2021 permalink
Sacris solemniis English translation
Yes. We are printing both the Latin and the English in a Parish hymnal. We generally only sing the Latin, but it's nice to see a good poetic English version.

Comment by SteveOttomanyi June 2021 permalink
Has anyone ever heard the Martin Mass for Double Choir in a liturgical setting?
It is on my calendar at some point in the next two years.

Comment by SteveOttomanyi January 2021 permalink
Propers for St Dominic from Mission Santa Clara
There are a couple of errors in the transcription, I think. The dotted breve (square punctum) in California Mission manuscripts--at least in the ones at the Santa Clara Mission choir books--are always followed by a triangulado (punctum inclinatum). …

Comment by SteveOttomanyi June 2020 permalink
Stabat mater
If you are looking for something extremely accessible, I can recommend a few settings from the repertoire of the California Missions. The choirs of the time were normally accompanied with orchestras of the Classical Iberian variety. Let me know if t…

Comment by SteveOttomanyi February 2020 permalink
Choral Pronunciation: Casals' Eucaristica (Porto Jesús dins el meu cor)
I do.

Comment by SteveOttomanyi April 2019 permalink
Mozart's Coronation Mass
NihilNominis, we will be sixteen trained singers.

Comment by SteveOttomanyi October 2018 permalink
Mozart's Coronation Mass
francis, agreed about the things that Holy Mother Church prefers--and asks of us in clearest possible terms. That is why, at all nine of our weekend Masses at our predominantly Hispanic and African American parish (which parishioners total 98% of ou…

Comment by SteveOttomanyi October 2018 permalink
Mozart's Coronation Mass
A clarification: at our parish we do not use the piano at Mass. All Masses, English, Spanish, Latin, and the occasional other language (some Archdiocesan Masses are celebrated at our parish) are accompanied by the pipe organ, with occasional additio…

Comment by SteveOttomanyi October 2018 permalink
In Memoriam List for All Souls - Liturgical Musicians
In your charity, please pray for the repose of the soul of Meri Dell Ridge, a colleague, writing and composition partner, hymnist of extraordinary talent, and grievously missed friend, who left us suddenly on June 5, 2017. I am grateful to see my fr…

Comment by SteveOttomanyi October 2018 permalink
Polyphonic Gloria for the Easter Vigil
Chaswjd, I have indeed used the shorter version of the Gloria from Haydn's Missa Sancti Joannis de Deo, but I have been asked if I could use it less frequently.

Comment by SteveOttomanyi March 2018 permalink
St. John Passion according to the English Lectionary, in Neumatic Notation and with Planctus Tone
Did you complete the Spanish setting?

Comment by SteveOttomanyi March 2018 permalink
Basic Core of Hispanic
There is indeed a basic core of Spanish-language sacred music, but very little of it is in hymn form. Most of it would be classifiable as a gozo. But there is a core repertoire of perhaps a couple of hundred works that virtually everyone would know …

Comment by SteveOttomanyi March 2018 permalink
Chanting the Pentecost Sequence in Spanish
You know, the Graduale (/Triplex/Novum/Simplex) has (have) a setting in plainsong, in very, very old Spanish. :D

Comment by SteveOttomanyi May 2017 permalink
Spanish Propers
I was asking about this some time ago, and I think I was either speaking to @janetgorbitz or @M. Jackson Osborn, but somehow the conversations stopped. Janet, I think you have some very good starts there. But I am going to guess you are not a nat…

Comment by SteveOttomanyi October 2016 permalink
Did JMO sabotage the Gregor und Taube website?!
In cases where you know what pieces a neo-gregorian composition draws from, you can try to sing according to their neums. But is this really reasonable? Neo-gregorian pieces were conceived having in mind an interpretation which is not the one you ge…

Comment by SteveOttomanyi September 2016 permalink
Psalm Tones and Propers
In the mission repertoire, the use of the rhombus, bread, semibreve, and long come from the prontuarios of late-Renaissance and early-Baroque Spain (which were reprinted through at least the end of the nineteenth century). In the chant repertoire of…

Comment by SteveOttomanyi June 2016 permalink
Psalm Tones and Propers
And this is just one choirbook, but in general, one will only find the breve, long, and rhombus (along with the dot) in Durán's choirbooks. In choirbooks by other scribes, the virga and various joined neums do appear, but the notation is not mo…

Comment by SteveOttomanyi June 2016 permalink

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