Jeffrey Quick

Odd discovery re Mass in England in 1748
I've read Muir, excellent book. Zon is the guy doing the heavy lifting re history of RC music in England. I wish there were a comparable figure in the US (yes, it could become me, but I do musicology as a hobby, not a career).

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SAINT Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina??
Funny, I was just telling my choir that "With due respect to Caecilia and Gregory, there are no professional musician saints. There may be a reason for that." If I bring my recruitment issues to SoG Giovanni Pierluigi, and my choir size t…

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Odd discovery re Mass in England in 1748
Thanks; that's useful. And yes, I imagined that '48 was no better year for Catholic publishing than 1608 was. Was this book intended perhaps for home devotionals?

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The great debate: Finale vs. Sibelius
Finale 2014 can save as Finale 2012 (there was no 2013). That's new. I've been a Finale user since v. 2.6 (mid '90s). It's hard to find people who have used both. I haven't. All notation programs are slaves to their past. F…

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Organ in Lent...
My EF practice, FWIW: We use organ for most anything the congregation might sing with: the Ordinary and the processional/recessional hymn...but NOT the Asperges. Some limited organ for Offertory pieces if it isn't really an independent part. Of…

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Fr. Z takes a poll on the EF "Dialogue Mass"
What's that word that begins with "dominenonsumdignus" that's spoken so quickly?

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Fr. Z takes a poll on the EF "Dialogue Mass"
When "what everybody wants" concurs with the teaching of several preconciliar popes, an ecumenical Council and Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, what's not to like about it? Tradition. On alternate Tuesdays (and this is one of them…

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choral pieces for very few singers
Is organ included? If it is, then there are a ton of things in Latin for 2 equal voices and organ. The French made some good contributions (Faure is nice but more difficult than most), the Italians around Perosi, and the Flemish (we're doing a …

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Hymns of protection from the adversary
Not for your specific need, but if one is willing to sing the masterwork of a heretic schismatic, Ein feste Burg arguably qualifies as such a hymn.

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A Capella Settings of the Ordinary (New English translation)??
Daniel Knaggs, Missa Sancti Ioannis Apostoli

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Organ acc. for Crux fidelis?
I already checked those. Here was the problem: Crux Fidelis is normally sung on Good Friday, when the organ is shut off. Thus there was no need to provide an accompaniment, and in fact to do so might have been construed to be a near occasion of sin …

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Easter Vigil - cantor question
She is a special young woman. I want to make the right decision for her. I want HER to make the right decision for her. I wouldn't want to say, "No, you can't, or shouldn't". I'd lay out the options and considerations, …

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Organ acc. for Crux fidelis?
Cool-that'll work with the Latin too. Thanks.

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Da noive of some people! St. Paddy off?!
True enough, from what I can gather from the Google garble. Ní raibh Pádraig fiú na hÉireann.

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Uh, oh....I see Anthony Esolen in the Octagon soon with hymnists!
The day you gave us, God, is ended The day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended So what's wrong with "Lord"? And I LIKE Immaculate Mary. What's awful about it?

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Da noive of some people! St. Paddy off?!
had the nerve to complain about how we're going to be singing so much during Holy Week. That's as natural as breathing. EF isn't doing a separate Triduum, so they don't have that to complain about. So what am I doing? Helping out…

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Music notation question
bhcordova: obviously a trombonist. I hate Blazhevich! Salieri: re the 4th as consonance: yes, it doesn't beat much; it's "pretty". But contrapuntally, it's a dissonance against the bass, because the root of the interval is a…

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So this is what we teach our young people today
Ugh, Kathy, "manufactured consent". I'd like to think that the techniques of American power politics had been kept out of the Church, but I guess not. What's next, the Alinskyization of faithful priests?

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Music notation question
Amateur singers don't do that well, it's true. But it's a "mistake" in writing found in virtually all polyphony. Also, what's the issue about the parallel 4ths?

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So this is what we teach our young people today
That's all of a piece with everything else I've seen in the Diocese of Youngstown. Is there anywhere besides Queen of the Holy Rosary and St. Columba that's doing it well?

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EF Requiem Mass for the Reinterment of King Richard III
That might be too much to ask. But if there's polyphony, let's hope it's not anachronistic.

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Ok, Who's Going to the Colloquium?
Who else will be doing the Composers' Forum with David Hughes? I intend to.

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Experience that has saddened me...
don't ever get behind the little old lady wearing a toboggan and clutching a rosary. Was it Fulton Sheen who compared hearing a nun's confession to being stoned to death with popcorn?

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Ok, Who's Going to the Colloquium?
I'm going, though I have to leave early Sat. for another longstanding musical commitment (Hiram Community Band, which I direct)

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Trenchant Schoenberg Quotation
Wonder how hard it would be to get any stats on what is actually being used in the U.S. - or would that be too expensive to even survey? The only way I can see to do it would be to crowdsource it, with a large and diverse group of people doing it. T…

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Modal polyphony
Modal harmony is defined by the descant pair (superius and tenor) moving from an imperfect consonance (3rd/6th) to a perfect one (unison, 8ve, 5th in earlier music). The harmonic implication of this motion is ^7 to ^1 (or, with ficta sharp, ^#7-^1)…

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I once sang in a schola with a Japanese fellow, who sang heavily-umlauted U vowels. I just figured he'd been listening to a lot of early-music, French-Latin recordings. But I finally felt compelled to bring it to the attention of the director, …

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Trenchant Schoenberg Quotation
Was Schoenberg Catholic? No. Born Jewish, became Lutheran in 1898, resumed Judaism in 1933.

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THE BEST commercial for a sacred music concert EVER PRODUCED IN HISTORY: Spem in Alium, Columbus, OH
Mostly unison?? Mostly 8 parts (C maj. over G min.), I recall, and no organ part, and not a 5 minute endeavor. You sure you aren't thinking of a different Ives piece? I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss Dallapiccola and Berio. Luigi Nono, O…

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The Two Hymn EF Sandwich
I walked into a 2 hymn EF sandwich tradition on the new gig, and i've kept it, with modifications. I think that people are used singing and want to sing English hymnody, and there's no place else to put it in the EF. (They sing credo 1 wel…

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