Gamba

Chant-Based Mass Setting
Hurd’s 2011 [New] New Plainsong? https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/new-plainsong-iii-print-g9683

Comment by Gamba February 2021 permalink
Abbey Psalms and Canticles
Psalm 1:3: surely “flower waters” must be a mistake?

Comment by Gamba February 2021 permalink
"We Remember How You Love Us"
“We Remember”, “We Celebrate”, “We Believe”.....I personally love how that earworm of a song manages to list the Three Marks of a fading NuChurch: 1) the song itself 2) a wretched hymnal 3) now-defunct “translations”

Comment by Gamba January 2021 permalink
Responsorial psalm: fully congregational, in directum?
In the NO, the processional propers (introit, [offertory,] communion) are legislated very loosely. They can be replaced with another song. You can append 500 verses if you want, or none at all. On the other hand, one can’t add more verses to the R…

Comment by Gamba January 2021 permalink
Responsorial psalm: fully congregational, in directum?
Re adding Glory Be... at the end of the psalm – there’s no reason to, nor is there any precedent for this. The graduals have no Glory be... and the lectionary doesn’t either.

Comment by Gamba January 2021 permalink
Conducting Gestures for Liturgical Timing
I was taught to never show my palm to a choir in the “police-officer-stopping-traffic” sort of way, since that gesture has the psychological effect of telling the singers to clamp up and choke on the sound. Some people use the Palm to mean “sing s…

Comment by Gamba January 2021 permalink
Introits for Congregation and Cantor/Choir
Please no more “St. X” titles...it always smells to me like a false appeal to authority. -St. X didn’t give their imprimatur for what people name after them. -St. X (except in very few cases) didn’t even write anything about a hymnal or new col…

Comment by Gamba January 2021 permalink
Liturgically appropriate nowadays?
Now we know what God thought. Saints 21, Bears 9; season is over for the Bears.

Comment by Gamba January 2021 permalink
Responsorial psalm: fully congregational, in directum?
@a_f_hawkins I am sympathetic to the idea of vernacular graduals, but couldn’t one justify the use of the ‘65 translation of the Eucharistic prayers, or collects by the same logic? It seems a bit of a stretch to say that translations approved for a…

Comment by Gamba January 2021 permalink
Young Catholics and Sacred Music
@jclangfo But as you know, reporting usage of a song from X Corp. to CCLI tells CCLI to give X Corp. the $ they are due.

Comment by Gamba January 2021 permalink
Young Catholics and Sacred Music
No Longer Slaves by Bethel https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/9-things-you-should-know-about-the-bethel-church-movement/ For goodness’ sake. Please stop using stuff from Bethel. That place is a “den of thieves” and a cancerous cult. My co…

Comment by Gamba January 2021 permalink
Funeral and Wedding Pay
@CCooze unless you and the priest have planned to slaughter exactly 20 people a year and factored that into your contract for the year, a funeral is extra work. It’s unplanned and not what you were expecting to do on Tuesday and you still have to re…

Comment by Gamba January 2021 permalink
Things that do not make sense to this ex-Anglican
Re 1) Prior to V2 there were no prescribed gestures that were binding on the laity. One still sees this piety to some degree at Extraordinary Form Masses – some kneel throughout the whole Mass, others pray the Rosary.... The First Liturgical Movem…

Comment by Gamba December 2020 permalink
Some questions and thoughts about the Abbey Psalms and Canticles
1) Psalm-tone the verses. I would think after X years of singing Nickel et al., it wouldn’t be that difficult a change to move to tone on top, words on bottom. 2) For the antiphons – aren’t they theoretically separated in some way from the verses, …

Comment by Gamba December 2020 permalink
All are Welcome - USCCB Statement on Hymns
This is really, truly a golden moment for this to come out, as hymnals/missalettes have been taken out of pews everywhere for fear of transmitting the virus, and it will be some time before they can be put back. But, without concrete action, I don…

Comment by Gamba December 2020 permalink
Is it worth it to get your M.M.?
I suppose it depends on where you are in life and how much time you have. If you’re 75 and have been a choral conductor for ages and don’t anticipate getting back on the job market, hey, probably not. Can you pick up what you learn in an MM over 2…

Comment by Gamba December 2020 permalink
How to unload a "vintage" Hammond organ
a_f_hawkins: the Leslie brand is now also part of Hammond Suzuki. https://hammondorganco.com/ You can get several different new speaker models in varying powers – ones on the same lines as the old Leslies, with actually-rotating horn and drum, or s…

Comment by Gamba November 2020 permalink
Pipes vs Digital
As to improvements over the last ten years.....uh.... Allen’s new organs are still running on the same Renaissance tech since 1998. Some minor tweaks and new stops added, but the fundamental architecture (and the samples) haven’t changed in 22 year…

Comment by Gamba November 2020 permalink
Pipes vs Digital
@Nathan I disagree strongly. I played a 2-manual, 26-stop pipe organ from 1890 full-time for three years, and I cannot think of a single piece I couldn’t perform for want of a third manual. Messiaen, Howells, Vierne and Widor symphonies, scads of Ba…

Comment by Gamba November 2020 permalink
Votive Mass of Our Lady in Advent (Rorate caeli Mass) in the OF--Gloria? Credo?
No, neither.

Comment by Gamba November 2020 permalink
Baccalaureate Mass During Advent
Hi! What date is the Mass? That is going to impact your choices in a big way. If it’s on a Sunday, or a weekday between 17-24 December, only the proper Advent Masses can be celebrated – those days rank too highly to celebrate a votive Mass, which …

Comment by Gamba November 2020 permalink
Recruiting Challenges for a College Campus Ministry Choir
Oh, sure. Princeton U Chapel. ‘28 E.M. Skinner / 1991 Mander. https://religiouslife.princeton.edu/chapel/chapel/mander-skinner-organ Just what the doctor ordered when it comes to playing a service and mightily impressing young-un’s.

Comment by Gamba September 2020 permalink
Recruiting Challenges for a College Campus Ministry Choir
Five years ago when I was in grad school, I was close with staff of the Episcopal student ministry at a private Ivy League school, and went semi-regularly to their liturgies. There they had a very fascinating program; two students who were the cur…

Comment by Gamba September 2020 permalink
Wildly Inappropriate Unrubrical Liturgical Daydreams
I’m still waiting to hear BWV 232 some Sunday.

Comment by Gamba September 2020 permalink
Resources for Improvisation, Pedals, and Stops
I have to say – all of this will take infinitely longer to puzzle out on your own than with a teacher's help. Improvisation is rather like speaking your own thoughts out loud. You need to have fluency in the language you are using in order for…

Comment by Gamba September 2020 permalink
Resources for Improvisation, Pedals, and Stops
Have you a teacher?

Comment by Gamba September 2020 permalink
Our National Anthem (SATB Hymn) : Tribute to Freedom : Do Not Let It Die
Davido – I would say “all of the above”. My family is big and full of opinions, but all of my grandparents were immigrants who care here in the late 50s/early 60s from Germany and Canada. I was very close to my late maternal grandparents; my grandmo…

Comment by Gamba August 2020 permalink
Our National Anthem (SATB Hymn) : Tribute to Freedom : Do Not Let It Die
I’m a homeschooled millennial.

Comment by Gamba August 2020 permalink
Our National Anthem (SATB Hymn) : Tribute to Freedom : Do Not Let It Die
@Francis The Church was founded by Jesus Christ, with his promise that the gates of hell would not prevail against it. America is a human invention, with a facade of theoretical ideals of freedom built on the foundation of subjugation and domination…

Comment by Gamba August 2020 permalink
Our National Anthem (SATB Hymn) : Tribute to Freedom : Do Not Let It Die
Ask George Floyd if the Star-Spangled Banner yet waves o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Comment by Gamba August 2020 permalink

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