SponsaChristi

Missa Veni Sponsa Christi
It would be most fitting for religious professions for women and the Rite of Consecration of a Virgin, along with the actual Palestrina motet.

Comment by SponsaChristi April 2018 permalink
Funeral music during Lent
Singing "Welcome, Happy Morning" at a funeral seems very insensitive. Indeed. I've only heard that hymn once. It was at an Anglican Use Ordinariate Sung as as the Offertory hymn immediately following the Pastor's announcement of…

Comment by SponsaChristi March 2018 permalink
Over-used hymn tunes and hymns
While only Sung once a year, but every year, at pretty much every parish/school for the past 25+ Years On Ash Wednesday across North America...hands down, Ashes.

Comment by SponsaChristi February 2018 permalink
Mystical Experience with "Here I am Lord"
It very well could have been caused by something biological. That frequently happens to me when I sing chant propers. What spiritual impact did it have on you? Did it make you grow in the love of God, desire to give up sin and grow in virtue, etc?…

Comment by SponsaChristi October 2017 permalink
Lay Women in Liturgy Questions
A woman could not lead the public recitation of Vespers in a church in the EF from the sanctuary, as it's not permitted to enter the sanctuary during public liturgy unless one is properly vested in clerical garb (ie: Cassock and Surplice), and …

Comment by SponsaChristi October 2017 permalink
Effect of Specific Modes
Yes, there actually is. The various chant modes correspond to the four ancient humours/temperaments (choleric, sanguine, melancholic, and phlegmatic).

Comment by SponsaChristi September 2017 permalink
Good meditation music
The sound of silence. IOW, no music.

Comment by SponsaChristi September 2017 permalink
Hurricane Irma-Here we go again.
Posts: 8,496 Every region has its weather extremes - earthquakes, tornadoes, wildfires, hurricanes, blizzards. There really is no safe place to live when you stop and think about it. Saskatchewan is pretty safe. Northern SK gets the odd forest fire…

Comment by SponsaChristi September 2017 permalink
Dealing with nitpickers and meddlers
I'm assuming this is a Catholic Church, therefore one is in the House of God. It's not the price of our clothing that makes it suitable for Mass. One should always strive to wear their Sunday best on Sundays (which does NOT include jeans, …

Comment by SponsaChristi September 2017 permalink
EF polyphonic Agnus Dei - when must it end?
Actually, there is a Confiteor sung by the Deacon before the communion of the faithful in the 1962 Roman Missal. It's in the rubrics for Solemn High Masses.

Comment by SponsaChristi June 2017 permalink
Polyphonic Mass logistics in an EF Mass
We now just sing the three, understanding that when three voices sing, you have nine invocations, perhaps a bit sophistical reasoning, but I think that is how Byrd might have done it. We also sing Byrd's Mass for 3 Voices and alternate it wit…

Comment by SponsaChristi March 2017 permalink
Personal Ordinariates - Gradual/Responsorial Psalm
Actually, one can sing alternate verses of a psalm to a Gregorian tone and an Anglican chant, fa-burden style. Care, of course, would be taken that they are tonally compatible.) Yes, we do this with doxologies at our Mass in the EF. At the ordina…

Comment by SponsaChristi March 2017 permalink
The Subdued Voice - A reverent way to sing.
Why would anyone want to sing the parts of Mass and the hymns in such a manner that it can't be heard? If you're going to sing, then SING!! Don't just stand there a mumble something inaudible. If choir members sang like this, we…

Comment by SponsaChristi February 2017 permalink
Gregorian Chant Sung so slowly in the Anglican Use Ordinariate
Yeah the church isn't particularly large. I'm hesitant to say anything since I'm just a guest there and I tend to be overly critical, but it really grinds my gears and frustrates me. Our schola director has a adage: If the chant ain&#…

Comment by SponsaChristi February 2017 permalink
Hymnody during Mass
check out Fr Anthony Cekada's "Work of Human Hands: A Theological Critique of the Mass of Paul VI." In it, he discusses the concept of the theological shift I mentioned and discusses its origins. I would err on the side of extreme ca…

Comment by SponsaChristi October 2016 permalink
St "Mother" Teresa Antiphon?
The proper Antiphon is the Veni Sponsa Christi (Palestrina wrote a beautiful polyphonic version of this). In the EF, the votive Mass for her, the common on virgin, not a martyr would be used by a priest who wished to celebrate her Mass. Furthermore,…

Comment by SponsaChristi September 2016 permalink
Women Singing Tenor
I sing tenor and baritone, mostly. I sing the odd low alto part when needed, or when the tenor part is written quite high. I can comfortably sing down to A2. First and foremost, don't ask her to "sing in the male octave". No woman w…

Comment by SponsaChristi August 2016 permalink
Women Singing Tenor
What exactly do you mean by not blending? If it's a vocal range thing, it would make sense that choral music is fine, because it's written in ranges. Most altos in choirs are mezzo soprano, not contralto.

Comment by SponsaChristi August 2016 permalink
Women Singing Tenor
There is no "men's octave". I am woman and I sing hymns and chant down the octave. If I don't, I am, for the most part, singing in my head voice entirely, and it's very difficult and tiring to do it in an audible volume. T…

Comment by SponsaChristi August 2016 permalink
Ordination of a Priest
FWIW: I have never attended a priestly ordination that did not have the Veni Creator sung during it... Nor have I ever attended an ordination that had the proper Litany to f the Saints sung during it; it has always been that Beck song with Origen li…

Comment by SponsaChristi August 2016 permalink
Women Singing In Schola/Propers
No, I don't sing solo. I have zero formal formal voice training and can't afford lessons. Our choir director (not schola director) told me that if I took voice lessons I could learn how to sing in my head voice. I can sing high (E one oct…

Comment by SponsaChristi June 2016 permalink
Women Singing In Schola/Propers
I realize the simplicity of fixing this issue, but I don't see a change in sight. Given the way society is headed towards gender not being based on biological reality and how one feels, I do get a little concerned when we have newcomers who mi…

Comment by SponsaChristi June 2016 permalink
Does your choir sing on Christmas Day?
I've never done it, as I fly home early Christmas morning after midnight Mass in the EF (Mass is done around 1:30 am), but yes, we still have the Noon High Mass on Christmas Day. Easter Sunday after Easter Vigil is the worst. We're done …

Comment by SponsaChristi June 2016 permalink
Women Singing In Schola/Propers
Yes, but I guess my chant director wasn't in the mood to discuss gender inclusive language and got quite angry, and asked me who do I sound like when I sing, the men, or the women, since I had to say the men, I was informed I have a male voice …

Comment by SponsaChristi June 2016 permalink
Women Singing In Schola/Propers
I'm not sure why it would be 'tiring being referred to as a man, or having a "male voice"'. Unless, of course, one isn't a man, in which case why would such a person be called a 'man'? I, myself, would never t…

Comment by SponsaChristi June 2016 permalink
Women Singing In Schola/Propers
M. Jackson Osborn, The octave thing, is a voice thing, not a male female thing. It gets tiring being referred to as a man, or having a "male voice", especially now that we live in a society that thinks one is a man or a woman, not based …

Comment by SponsaChristi June 2016 permalink
Solemn Tone Salve Regina (FSSP)
Chonak is correct that what they're singing is not published. Some of the seminarians in the schola are from our Latin Mass Community and when they come home for the summer or at Christmas they help us with our schola and will randomly break ou…

Comment by SponsaChristi June 2016 permalink
A church musician pushed too far. Assumption Grotto
The simple solution would've been that the Bishop should've used an electric guitar instead of a ukulele, so when he started straying off into Parts Unknown you just give him the "Ottaviani Treatment" and pull the plug on his amp…

Comment by SponsaChristi May 2016 permalink
A church musician pushed too far. Assumption Grotto
I asked a priest about this and the priest saw nothing wrong with the organist's actions. What was the organist playing, btw? Anyone know?

Comment by SponsaChristi May 2016 permalink
What funny things have you heard at Mass? (Updated Title)
If I had a dollar for every time Jesus was crucified on Calgary instead of Calvary.

Comment by SponsaChristi April 2016 permalink

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