Roborgelmeister

Wanted: Short Chorale Prelude on LLANFAIR
There is a setting in one of the volumes (Easter?) of The Parish Organist from Concordia (early 60s). I believe it's in the Key of G. I sometimes go as low as D major for this hymn tune.

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Hymns in literature and film
Upbeat, jazz-like rendition of "There is a happy land" over the final credits of Arsenic and Old Lace. http://www.hymnary.org/text/there_is_a_happy_land_far_far_away

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Organists, I need to learn your language!
The Oxford Organ Method [C. H. Trevor] has PICTURES! Veddy, veddy British, not there's anything wrong with that.

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Merry Christmas to all
Happy Christmastide!

Comment by Roborgelmeister December 2014 permalink
English Hymnal 1906
The Parsifal melody is in Songs of Syon with the Amen!

Comment by Roborgelmeister December 2014 permalink
Von Himmel hoch - A solis ortus cardine
There are many tunes that Americans assume are Lutheran that have been in extensive use in the RC Church in German speaking nations. Msgr. Rothensteiner apologizes in one of his collections for items that some might assume were outside the faith. He…

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English Hymnal 1906
The Parsifal melody for an Ascensiontide hymn didn't make the cut, but the Meistersinger Chorale is still there!

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English Hymnal 1906
Some the most interesting music in the EH is contained only in the 1933 re-edit. BTW, the words editor, Percy Dearmer, made five or six minute changes in his own hymn texts. Some of those changes had already been made in Songs of Praise, a school as…

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SNL Goes To Church
Okay, there are only eight verses. The English Hymnal had 7, and the Hymnal 1940 & 1982 have six verses. At the hand of an inept organist, six verses could SEEM like 44 verses. A very complete itemization of translations is here: http://www.hymn…

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The most important facts about William Byrd
This has some very good information. http://media.musicasacra.com/books/byrd-online.pdf

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EF English Hymns
O God Almighty Father To Jesus Christ our Sovereign King Hail, Holy Queen Immaculate Mary

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Salary: How much do YOU get paid? How much should you?
Interesting that there's very little discussion of job descriptions. They vary so widely that the pay will vary, too. I am playing in a very small Episcopal Church in Portland, Oregon. The cost of living here is rather high! My duties are: sele…

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What song is this (Kennedy Funeral)
I was eight years old, but this still stabs a knife through my heart. The only time I ever saw my own father cry.

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The music after and before Mass
The Recessional Hymn and Postlude were customs in the German American churches. The Laity disliked very much not singing in the vernacular at the High Mass, and so a rousing hymn at the end of mass was a very typical feature in the German Parishes. …

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Symbolic Meaning of the Introit Procession
What about the Papal Masses in Rome in the Ancient Church? Litanies sung from the Papal Residence to the "church of the day," then an Introit. All of this is pilgrimage.

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Communion Meditation At Today's Mass
And the homilist deserves an upbraiding.

Comment by Roborgelmeister October 2014 permalink
Haydn's Deutsche Messe in English?
For the Introit Hymn, Zittel uses a version of "Prostrate before thy Majesty," which is presumably high altered from the versions that appear elsewhere. All of those first lines appear in Zittel; whether or not they are paired with M. Hayd…

Comment by Roborgelmeister October 2014 permalink
Communion Meditation At Today's Mass
I should think what the pianist did would be grounds for termination.

Comment by Roborgelmeister October 2014 permalink
Haydn's Deutsche Messe in English?
St. Mary's Hymnal, which is also called St. Mary's Manual, does have almost all of the movements of Michael Haydn's Singemesse. The various items are interleaved with other Low Mass hymns starting with number one. Unfortunately, I can…

Comment by Roborgelmeister October 2014 permalink
Arbogast Propers, Worth Saving?
Arbogast +2013 http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nky/obituary.aspx?pid=167580563

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American Gradual Propers for Weeks 26-30 of O.T.
I notice the McGregor Psalms have disappeared. What would be the best way to obtain them? Rob, Portland, Oregon

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The Psalter and Canticles Pointed...Ancient & Modern--Henry W. Baker, Bart & William Henry Monk
Would you wish to share where you found it?

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Most Singable CM Hymntune
St. Agnes, by Dykes.

Comment by Roborgelmeister August 2014 permalink
It was one of those days
"EVERYONE SIT DOWN WE WILL NOT BEGIN WITH THE HYMN" Typical clericalism: why would a priest ever think to tell the musicians of changes in the regular order?

Comment by Roborgelmeister August 2014 permalink
Tantum Tunes
But a clue might be that since St. Thomas took the meter of Pange lingua gloriosa to compose his own Pange lingua, of which the Tantum ergo is just verse five and six, that perhaps the Pange melody was what he had in mind. Now, just find out what ve…

Comment by Roborgelmeister July 2014 permalink
Quicumque vult
There are various versions arranged by Francis Pott in his "The Free-rhythm Psalter." https://archive.org/details/freerhythmpsalt00englgoog The Athanasian Creed was included in the Church of England at Mattins approximately 12 times per y…

Comment by Roborgelmeister July 2014 permalink
Polish Hymnal with organist accompaniment
Shows what I know. Hope it would help a Slovak Organist! My Polish priest would go downstate at Christmas and Easter to celebrate for the Slovak community.

Comment by Roborgelmeister July 2014 permalink
Postludes
I did enjoy working in a Polish Parish, playing mostly at the English masses (thank heavens). The priest would stay absolutely in place for the first verse of the final hymn. If there was a Trinitarian hymn at the end (like, O God Almighty Father), …

Comment by Roborgelmeister July 2014 permalink
Polish Hymnal with organist accompaniment
I found an interesting Polish Organ accompaniment book that deals with the Ordinary of the Mass, and could be use to those who play at Polish Masses... I certainly could have used it back in the day! http://notypreorgan.comehere.cz/files/Liturgick…

Comment by Roborgelmeister July 2014 permalink
Polish Hymnal with organist accompaniment
Some of what you are looking for may be found at these links: http://liturgicalcenter.org/?a=liturg&sub=hymns&id=74 http://liturgicalcenter.org/pdfy/Hymns/Blessed_Virgin_Mary/637-2.pdf http://liturgicalcenter.org/pdfy/Hymns/Blessed_Virgin…

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