m_r_taylor

Wedding Music and Mass
When you say "English Psalm as gradual" I assume you mean, for example, some selection from Psalm 128 but in a more melismatic fashion. While of course you can do the Latin gradual https://gregobase.selapa.net/chant.php?id=311 it is not c…

Comment by m_r_taylor May 7 permalink
Wedding Music and Mass
https://www.noelchabanel.org/psalms/A_ord_33/ May have what you're looking for as regards the responsorial psalmody.

Comment by m_r_taylor May 7 permalink
O Saving Victim (2025)
Thank you so much! We are singing the piece this weekend for Exposition.

Comment by m_r_taylor April 25 permalink
Palm/Passion Sunday
St. JP2 Shrine A cappella, SATB Weber Englished propers Missa Jubilate Deo in Latin, SATB harmonized by Lewis/Wanner Self-composed Psalm and Gospel Acclamation Offertory: Ingegneri - Tenebrae factae sunt Communion: Taylor - The Royal Banners Comm…

Comment by m_r_taylor April 13 permalink
“It’s easy to mistake emotional manipulation for a movement of God, right?”
"Music composed for the sung Liturgy should, if things are being done well, have to live side-by-side with Gregorian chant, and not feel terribly out of place doing so. Indeed, it should feel right at home. Because just as liturgical music must…

Comment by m_r_taylor March 24 permalink
Post-communion ave
The Fatima Ave Maria - El trece de Mayo la Virgen María, besides the second to last note.

Comment by m_r_taylor March 24 permalink
Stations of the Cross with motets, tonight Friday 21 March 2025 in SF Bay Area
Sixth station oration - "yuor divine charity"

Comment by m_r_taylor March 22 permalink
Seeking chants for York Plays performance -- niche question
https://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~renwick/sarum-chant-annex.htm I don't know too much - here is a Sarum chant site with references to early 1500s manuscript dates that might be worth looking into. Down the page you can find an Assumption Mas…

Comment by m_r_taylor March 21 permalink
Motet list resources for Sundays throughout the year
https://repertoire.crccm.org/categories

Comment by m_r_taylor January 30 permalink
Solo soprano sacred repertoire
Serenity - James MacMillan. Not sure if there is an arrangement for solo voice for the choral sections, but perhaps you can take the soprano line and have the accompanist play the rest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6IsBSeVlE8 Another version h…

Comment by m_r_taylor January 8 permalink
Newly composed melismatic verses for Gospel Acclamations
Attached is the alleluia verse for Christmas during the Day. It's based on the chant Hodie Christus Natus Est.

Comment by m_r_taylor December 2024 permalink
Curious about this: discontinuing the introit/entrance antiphon
@JacobFlaherty, For a liturgy guide, if I have music, I will always make it afresh on Dorico and export to PNG. Sometimes it's enough just to import an XML file from CPDL or Hymnary into Dorico and then delete until I have unison-and-verses). F…

Comment by m_r_taylor December 2024 permalink
Choral Wedding Repertoire suggestions
I would also recommend Richard Rice's gorgeous SATB propers for the Nuptial Mass https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/comment/146808#Comment_146808

Comment by m_r_taylor December 2024 permalink
Choral Wedding Repertoire suggestions
If you're thinking somewhat modern, here is Clausen's Set Me As A Seal Upon Your Heart https://www.jwpepper.com/Set-Me-As-a-Seal/1735687.item https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mVWmIj_O3E

Comment by m_r_taylor November 2024 permalink
Tota pulchra es by Jean Mouton - looking for an SATB transposition
I've thought about it too, but the voices are too close together, and to move it high enough that the soprano could handle the lowest note would entail transposing at least up a major sixth (making the lowest soprano note G), but now you'l…

Comment by m_r_taylor November 2024 permalink
Fast moving, melismatic SATB polyphony for concert?
Some random titles - Bach - Loben den Herrn ein neues Lied (divisi) Bach - Jesu, nun sei gepreiset (written specifically for New Year's Day). DeLong - Nova, Nova: Ave Fit ex Eva di Lasso - Jubilate Deo Handel - something from Messiah Pitoni -…

Comment by m_r_taylor October 2024 permalink
Newly composed melismatic verses for Gospel Acclamations
GABC and chant notation PDF for this upcoming Sunday's alleluia - OT 28 B, the last on the above collection. Notes have been revised. %% name:Alleluia verse OT 28 B; supertitle:Alleluia verse; title:; subtitle:OT 28 B; text-left:; text-right:M…

Comment by m_r_taylor October 2024 permalink
Of One Who is so Fair and Bright (2022) - chant
Two verses were sung today.

Comment by m_r_taylor May 2024 permalink
Vigil of Pentecost: canticles?
@smvanroode, "Post V lectionem" - which fifth reading?

Comment by m_r_taylor May 2024 permalink
Sicut cervus by Palestrina
Original clef version in F has basses on a low F and tenors up to a high C. https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/c/c7/Palestrina_Sicut_cervus.pdf There is a CPDL version which says it is down a whole step to E flat - but the link is not working. Howeve…

Comment by m_r_taylor April 2024 permalink
Question about singing the Te Deum
Can't give you specific rubrics; when we do it we sing it directly after Mass has concluded.

Comment by m_r_taylor April 2024 permalink
Beginner Level TTB Polyphonic motets and Masses suggestions
https://www.nicholaslemme.com/ Nicholas Lemme has written a lot of TTB stuff which pair beautifully with the traditional chants. Some of it is technically quite straightforward. The late Ryan Dingess has several TTB works. I downloaded them from hi…

Comment by m_r_taylor April 2024 permalink
Marian solo with violin or viola
Anything from Biber's Rosary Sonatas.

Comment by m_r_taylor April 2024 permalink
Sibelius Headaches
A set of early music scoring articles with Dorico: https://www.scoringnotes.com/tutorials/early-music-in-dorico-is-more-than-meets-the-eye/ https://www.scoringnotes.com/tutorials/creating-editorial-marks-with-dorico/ https://www.scoringnotes.com/…

Comment by m_r_taylor April 2024 permalink
Hildegard Recommendation?
https://ks15.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/5/5d/IMSLP241166-WIMA.6140-Bingen_Antiphonae-de-Spiritu-Sancto.pdf Spiritus Sancti Vivificans? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlHM_XDWiak

Comment by m_r_taylor April 2024 permalink
New melismatic Mass alleluia?
I am currently on the hunt for more of these, having just implemented the AUG alleluia, with fine congregational response. If I compose one of my own, I'll post it up.

Comment by m_r_taylor April 2024 permalink
Sibelius Headaches
Dorico has a 60 day free trial. In Dorico: Open program. Uncheck time signature box in "create new" dialog. Go to "write" mode, Shift + N to start entering notes. After writing out your notes, navigate to anywhere you want to …

Comment by m_r_taylor April 2024 permalink
Enrico Correggia (b. 1988): Ave verum corpus (2010)
Bumping because WOW! Score here. https://www.enricocorreggia.net/composizioni.html

Comment by m_r_taylor April 2024 permalink
Triduum Music Lists
Easter Sunday Opening Hymn: Jesus Christ is Risen Today Introit: Kelly Sprinkling Rite: I saw water (VII hymnal arrangement) Gloria: Mass VIII Psalm: own composition Sequence: Christians, to the Paschal Victim (1880 Antiphoner and Grail translation…

Comment by m_r_taylor March 2024 permalink
New Composition: 'Arise, My Love, My Fair One'
Lovely!

Comment by m_r_taylor March 2024 permalink

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