Chaswjd

Whose fault is it that we use bad music and what can we do about it?
That said: how would a Diocesan celebration use a Gregorian ordinary for celebration in English? Sacrosanctum Concilium para. 54 "Nevertheless steps should be taken so that the faithful may also be able to say or to sing together in Latin tho…

Comment by Chaswjd April 2023 permalink
Mass setting in English with some chant or chant-based?
There are any number of settings on CC Watershed. This is the gloria from one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlwifxKin64

Comment by Chaswjd April 2023 permalink
What do you use for the Easter Sequence?
When we are elected Pope, we will place the sequence back to its original place, following the alleluia, hence "Sequence."

Comment by Chaswjd April 2023 permalink
Ethical Concerns of OCP (Respond & Acclaim)
The Source and Summit model is actually closer to being a license to use the online content. Once that license has ended, the right to use the content ends. The question with the disposable hymnals is more difficult. Copyright is literally that, …

Comment by Chaswjd March 2023 permalink
Suggestions of Prefaces on Sundays during Ordinary Time
I am of two minds when it comes to having the prefaces match the "theme" of the day. In the run up to the Second Gulf War, I saw a priest give a powerful homily on the Sunday of Lent where the Old Testament reading was the giving of the T…

Comment by Chaswjd March 2023 permalink
Per annum: how NOT to use Orbis Factor for 23 weeks?
The notations attached to the various mass ordinaries are not law. One can actually use whatever mass ordinary one wants in the Kyriale that one wants. One should ponder the suggestions. But if there is a good reason for using a different setting…

Comment by Chaswjd March 2023 permalink
Seeking recommendations: processional music for a diaconal ordination
How about the Jernberg “The Love of God Has Been Poured into our Hearts”.

Comment by Chaswjd February 2023 permalink
New Rescript from His Holiness
It is surprising to see the number of items reserved to the Holy See from a document which starts: "Guardians of the tradition, the bishops in communion with the Bishop of Rome constitute the visible principle and foundation of the unity of the…

Comment by Chaswjd February 2023 permalink
I’m Really Ticked!!
Personally, I find FJ Haydn rather underappreciated these days I have always wanted to sing the Gloria from the Klein Orgel mass. I have an ordinary who likes to keep the trains running on time. I would really like to see the expression on his fa…

Comment by Chaswjd February 2023 permalink
Graduale Simplex setting for an Ordination Mass
You could perhaps supplement anything you cannot find with the Votive mass for the Holy Spirit.

Comment by Chaswjd February 2023 permalink
Does anyone recognize this Gloria and which polyphonic Mass it’s from?
The page says it is the Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli.

Comment by Chaswjd February 2023 permalink
Do you want anything in particular sung at your funeral Mass?
If I had unlimited resources, the dream would be to have the Tallis Scholars come and sing the Victoria Requiem a 6. On more limited resources: Introit: Puccini Requiem (someone would have to find a violist) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TT…

Comment by Chaswjd February 2023 permalink
Can the priest's chanting be droned?
There is a recording of a mass setting by Andre Gouzes where the institutional narrative is sung in harmony by the concelebrating priests: https://youtu.be/SHSDFCZa0Zc I can imagine that if the institutional narrative was chanted in a parish setti…

Comment by Chaswjd January 2023 permalink
SS/SA/Two Part Lenten music
I would suggest the Salieri's De Profundis. While it was originally written one part for men and one for women, it could easily be sung with the male part being assigned to alto. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaHNWyzfU8c

Comment by Chaswjd January 2023 permalink
Ethics of private instruction on church property
My parish has a program to train young organists. The music director, however, does not personally charge for lessons. Rather, the parish conditions the lessons on playing at mass when the organist is sufficiently far along. Indirectly the directo…

Comment by Chaswjd January 2023 permalink
Lessons and Carols, anyone?
Actually, the one time the General Instructions on the Liturgy of the Hours allows the combination of the Office of the Readings with mass is on Christmas Eve. "98. Apart from Christmas eve, the combining of Mass with the office of readings is…

Comment by Chaswjd January 2023 permalink
Does “Tra le Sollucitudine” actually ALLOW Organ Alternatim?
There are places in the Novus Ordo where an alius cantus aptus could include a hymn for which alternatin parts were written. For example, I could see at Easter a small choir with a skilled organist singing Ad Coena in alternatim with the versets by…

Comment by Chaswjd January 2023 permalink
Well-grounded thoughts, please
@ Chris Garto-Zavesky - I was using the term "plodding" in the sense of the original post. That is, one beat (or two) per neume. I was not referring to final tempo. My point was that although many theorize that chant should mirror the r…

Comment by Chaswjd December 2022 permalink
Parish Music Meeting A'Coming. Add Your Thoughts.
The document was obviously written by someone who is ignorant of or does not care what the church has already said about the music to be used at mass. To start, the Church has already selected the criteria for the music to be used at mass. That cr…

Comment by Chaswjd December 2022 permalink
Well-grounded thoughts, please
Chant does not equal slow. One is a musical form the other is a tempo. While I understand that the "plodding" approach may not be ideal, if you have a large group or a one that is just learning chant, assigning one or two "beats&q…

Comment by Chaswjd December 2022 permalink
Papal Responses to the Emergence of the TLM Movement
Here's a thought: Bishops: 1. Permit and encourage parishes to have celebrations of the mass in Latin according to the Missal of St. Paul VI, said ad orientem with chanted ordinaries and propers. 2. Actually include enough Latin in masses…

Comment by Chaswjd November 2022 permalink
Brass Parts for Missa de Angelis?
There is the Peter Latona Gloria with polyphony by Cima alternating with the Missa de Angelis Gloria. Brass can double the choir parts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DCXkIjp6Sc&t=97s

Comment by Chaswjd November 2022 permalink
Small triumphs
@LauraKaz Ugh! There is nothing in Custodes Traditionis which prohibits the celebration of the mass in Latin if it is celebrated according to the Missal of St. Paul VI. Indeed, given the provisions of canon law and the wish of the Council that s…

Comment by Chaswjd November 2022 permalink
How can I get parishoners to join a schola?
My thought would be to have the schola actually sing at mass. The number of people who attend mass is probably vastly greater than the number of people who attend the holy hour at your parish. This would give your schola far greater exposure. I…

Comment by Chaswjd November 2022 permalink
ZELENKA, J.D.: Omnium sanctorum (laBarocca, Jais)
Zelenka is a great composer. His music should be heard more often.

Comment by Chaswjd November 2022 permalink
Polyphonic Ordinary in the Novus Ordo
One could use an alternatim setting with the people singing the chant and the congregation singing the polyphony. https://youtu.be/zUhWoK4usZg

Comment by Chaswjd October 2022 permalink
Obeying our Ordinaries
@Chris Garton-Zavesky I think that they way that Cardinal Cupich describes chant and Latin as add-ons does put him at odds with the Council. But I think that the way the reform was implemented and the way mass is said in most parishes today is at…

Comment by Chaswjd September 2022 permalink
Obeying our Ordinaries
Interestingly, in the regulations set forth by Cardinal Cupich, he states: "[Accompaniment] may also mean creatively including elements that people have found nourishing in celebrating the pre-Vatican form of the Mass, which has always been an…

Comment by Chaswjd September 2022 permalink
Obeying our Ordinaries
@Chris Garton-Zavesky I am not saying that it is wrong to choose TLM because it is automatically a repudiation of the Missal of St. Paul VI. If I were made pope tomorrow, I would reverse Traditionis Custodes. I think that the church should be la…

Comment by Chaswjd September 2022 permalink
What are our "takeaways" from the Anglican musical tradition?
It means that when the change from Latin to the vernacular came about after the Second Vatican Council, how the reform was implemented in the U.S. went off the rails. We had access to a 400 year old liturgical and musical tradition that produced so…

Comment by Chaswjd September 2022 permalink

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