Adam Wood

Jesus Christ is Risen Today - NOS GALAN
Satan doesn't experience joy.

Comment by Adam Wood April 21 permalink
Tenebrae this Wednesday in SF Bay Area with Palestrina Lamentations, Book 4
well i drove up from Sunnyvale for this and had a nice meal afterward with Richard and his pod of singers. good music, good times.

Comment by Adam Wood April 17 permalink
Tenebrae this Wednesday in SF Bay Area with Palestrina Lamentations, Book 4
> Schola Cetatus is a pool of singers should have written "pod of singers"

Comment by Adam Wood April 15 permalink
Tenebrae this Wednesday in SF Bay Area with Palestrina Lamentations, Book 4
> ‘School of Whales’ is a wink to the anonymous Gregorian chant author who (likewise) could not resist a cetacean pun in Latin while honoring St. David. we're all going to need more details on this

Comment by Adam Wood April 15 permalink
Tenebrae this Wednesday in SF Bay Area with Palestrina Lamentations, Book 4
> I'd be very delighted to meet you, You can find me because I look like this:

Comment by Adam Wood April 15 permalink
Tenebrae this Wednesday in SF Bay Area with Palestrina Lamentations, Book 4
I think I’m going to this. I’ll be driving up from Sunnyvale so if there are any South Bay folks who want a ride let me know

Comment by Adam Wood April 14 permalink
Jesus Christ is Risen Today - NOS GALAN
bump for the coming festivities.

Comment by Adam Wood April 14 permalink
Orchestra and chant?
I've heard Adam Bartlett is a huge champion of orchestral accompaniment for Gregorian chant.

Comment by Adam Wood April 13 permalink
Tenebrae this Wednesday in SF Bay Area with Palestrina Lamentations, Book 4
Is admission free for Adam as well?

Comment by Adam Wood April 13 permalink
ICEL translation versus a new USCCB-approved translation of Easter Sequence Victimae Paschali Laudes
that new one is awful what is happening

Comment by Adam Wood March 31 permalink
Solo Soprano, Alto, or Tenor Repertoire for Confirmation Masses?
Richard Clark's setting of the Pentecost Sequence is an incredible modern art song for solo Tenor (or Soprano). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvb_-PU7dow

Comment by Adam Wood February 26 permalink
Selling used Gather Book (Hymnal) 3rd edition
no thanks

Comment by Adam Wood February 26 permalink
Hail to thee, true Body (Ave, verum Corpus)
I had completely forgotten about the setting of Hail True Body I mentioned here. Wow. Good times.

Comment by Adam Wood February 3 permalink
Music for Guitar Masses?
Assuming this isn't a troll post... 1. Don't change anything for some time. When you do change things, change things with a liturgical season. 2. Introduce new material one piece at a time. 3. Don't change anything at all unless yo…

Comment by Adam Wood January 28 permalink
Great Books of Western Music
TEXTS Antiquity Aristoxenus (4th century BCE) Elements of Harmony (Harmonics) Elements of Rhythmics (fragments) Ptolemy (2nd century CE) Harmonics Early Middle Ages Boethius (c. 480–524 CE) De Institutione Musica Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636 …

Comment by Adam Wood January 28 permalink
Contemporary worship music: How do editors intend their product to be used?
> like Andrew I couldn't understand a single word - what IS a synth pad? really? Do you not know what a synth is? "pad" is just one of the sounds a synth can make (If you're pretending you don't understand because non…

Comment by Adam Wood November 2024 permalink
Contemporary worship music: How do editors intend their product to be used?
"Pad" is a particular type of synth sound. The stereotypical ethereal slow-attack, long decay sound you might think of when you think of a synth. (Contrasted with "synth lead" the bell- or guitar- or trumpet-like synth sound that…

Comment by Adam Wood November 2024 permalink
Contemporary worship music: How do editors intend their product to be used?
I was mostly talking about Protestants (and specifically Evangelicals) for whom Praise Music isn’t just one genre among many but a whole way (the only way) of doing church. I’m less tuned in with the LifeTeen crowd.

Comment by Adam Wood November 2024 permalink
Contemporary worship music: How do editors intend their product to be used?
You are free to think that, but I know a lot of these people, and I don't think that is an accurate assessment of most of them. (At least, in the context of local church ministry. I think the upper echelons of the production end of this stuff i…

Comment by Adam Wood November 2024 permalink
Contemporary worship music: How do editors intend their product to be used?
Yes.

Comment by Adam Wood November 2024 permalink
Contemporary worship music: How do editors intend their product to be used?
> what is their "good intention?" they want to do what God wants them to do

Comment by Adam Wood November 2024 permalink
Contemporary worship music: How do editors intend their product to be used?
I think most of the people who compose, perform, and publish this music have good intentions and are sincere and earnest. I think they've mostly lost the plot on what the Sunday gathering is for and what music's role is within that. And …

Comment by Adam Wood November 2024 permalink
Contemporary worship music: How do editors intend their product to be used?
Due to my ecclesiastical and familial loyalties, I currently play synths and percussion (and sing) in a church band that is about 80% (or more) "Contemporary Praise and Worship" (and most of that is late 90s or early 2000s Hillsong or Hill…

Comment by Adam Wood November 2024 permalink
Rendering gabc in LilyPond
This looks a lot better. Cool. Thanks.

Comment by Adam Wood November 2024 permalink
Rendering gabc in LilyPond
yeah - i'm looking at the PDF you posted. There's a number of specific things I can point to, but I don't know if they are "the thing" that makes it significantly less attractive than a Gregorio (or traditionally engraved) …

Comment by Adam Wood November 2024 permalink
Rendering gabc in LilyPond
This is a great idea, but that output is pretty unattractive. Is there a potential (even in theory) way to fix that or is it a limitation of how Lilypond handles square notes?

Comment by Adam Wood November 2024 permalink
Rendering gabc in LilyPond
WOW

Comment by Adam Wood October 2024 permalink
Your Favorite Christmas Carol? "Sacred Miscellany" wants to know
I will enjoy it in three if it is offered that way. But we were asked for our favorite.

Comment by Adam Wood October 2024 permalink
Your Favorite Christmas Carol? "Sacred Miscellany" wants to know
Of The Father's Love Begotten (equalist, not in three... and I want to hear/sing all the verses)

Comment by Adam Wood October 2024 permalink
Neumes plus Modern Notation in Musescore
> I don’t see what the reason is to do this. This is approximately the same notation style as the 1906 uses for chant hymns. (The difference being those are not melismatic. But still... square note vocal line with modern notes accompaniment has …

Comment by Adam Wood October 2024 permalink

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