CharlesW

Congregational singing and an ameteur musician pastor
We hear the announcements after the dismissal then we pray the St. Michael prayer.

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"O Magnum Mysterium" on the Organ Without Breaking my Hand?
I would go for the "pedals" suggestion with the manuals coupled. Pick up the lowest notes there and split the remaining notes between two hands. Redundant notes, leave out.

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GIA buys WLP catalog
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GIA buys WLP catalog
There's more to this than meets the eye What I have found "funny" about WLP is that their missalettes have arrived at the last minute every time the liturgical season changed for about a year. Supposedly, they had "printing pro…

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Hymnal Giant Accused Of Pushing Rivals Out Of Pews
I don't buy anything from OCP and have no plans to start.

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THE SAGA CONTINUES: Diplomacy Musical Director Vs. President of the Parish Council
Read Snow White. The poison apple trick still works.

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role of cantor in NO Mass
Is a renovation project in order in this building, such that this parish become acoustically live and thus microphone free? No, they hired a friend of the original pastor who was a recording engineer. He built what is essentially a recording studi…

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Christ the King (OF): What are you doing?
I have used the anthem, "From all that dwell below the skies." I am quoting the title without looking at it so it may vary a bit. Young's anthems were more popular when I as a teenager became interested in church music. I suspect t…

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role of cantor in NO Mass
I am fortunate to work in an older and acoustically live building. That being said, there is one large, newer church in town so acoustically dead that microphones are required. You wouldn't be able to hear a thing without them. They have to…

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Reform of the Reform (Propers, Chant, etc.)
By the way, since the Orthodox still use Greek, are they incapable of "understanding" the Holy Liturgy? Only the Greeks use Greek. Charles, apparently you were in a far different liturgical milieu than I was as a member of the congregati…

Comment by CharlesW November 2019 permalink
Christ the King (OF): What are you doing?
Holy Ghost, Knoxville. Entrance: To Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign King Gloria and Ordinary: ICEL chant mass Psalm: Let us go rejoicing... by E. Englert Offertory anthem: Now Let Us All Praise God and Sing - Gordon Young Communion Propers. R. Rice C…

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Reform of the Reform (Propers, Chant, etc.)
Chonak, I heard about them. The main thing with my group is the hippies didn't bring their guitars and start wailing elevator music at us. It could have been babushkas with canes that scared the hippies off. Babushkas are armed and dangerous.

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Christmas Recessional
"Joy to the World," the Handel version, I inherited along with "O Come All Ye Faithful" for Midnight Mass and Christmas day. Those two have been a tradition before my time there and I am fine with them. They get limited use so a…

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Christmas Recessional
Nothing wrong with it. My GIA hymnal put it in the Epiphany section, but it is still a perfectly good carol for the rest of Christmas. Our Midnight Mass recessional is always "Joy to the World."

Comment by CharlesW November 2019 permalink
Reform of the Reform (Propers, Chant, etc.)
Dad29 I think age is finally getting to you. I remember mass before Vatican II and it was what I noted. Even the church in an official council called for liturgical reform. Unfortunately, some of the restored TLM masses have recreated all the pro…

Comment by CharlesW November 2019 permalink
role of cantor in NO Mass
My own experience is a cantor in front of a microphone inhibits congregational singing by overpowering them. My cantors do not have microphones, they are in the loft with me, and they start the first phrase or so of the hymns then back off and sing…

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How to argue organ over piano
Let's face it. A good organ costs a heck of a lot more than a piano. Then someone has to be paid to play the organ. We don't spend all those years in school at great cost to work for nothing. There are more people who call themselves p…

Comment by CharlesW November 2019 permalink
Reform of the Reform (Propers, Chant, etc.)
Apparently, such talk makes TLM-goers "elistist" and "unwelcoming." I don't know if you heard about the homily [loudly] given by Father when the Holy Ghost schola joined ours in Sept., but evidently someone is playing a game…

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Reform of the Reform (Propers, Chant, etc.)
It's an honor and a trial to be alive at such a strange time. Yes, it truly is. While there are few dull moments, the chaos eventually gets a bit tiring. No solutions offered, since I can't enforce them anyway. I think I am very fortun…

Comment by CharlesW November 2019 permalink
Reform of the Reform (Propers, Chant, etc.)
No broom closets. Sacrament houses and chapels devoted to Christ's real presence. The tabernacle over the altar is a post-Trent innovation that even the Vatican opposed for some time before giving approval. I don't see it as anything es…

Comment by CharlesW November 2019 permalink
Reform of the Reform (Propers, Chant, etc.)
Jacob, I will watch the video later in the day after work. Yes, I still work at my age both in music and part time in the government agency I retired from. I would maintain that placing the tabernacle in the center of the sanctuary is not so signi…

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Reform of the Reform (Propers, Chant, etc.)
In a word, no, or at least not much more to one than the other.

Comment by CharlesW November 2019 permalink
Reform of the Reform (Propers, Chant, etc.)
Not a perfect world, not a perfect church, either - especially from an administrative standpoint. The famous phrase that also applies to church music, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Maybe the "perfect" is sometimes …

Comment by CharlesW November 2019 permalink
Reform of the Reform (Propers, Chant, etc.)
I think all that is a bit of an over-reaction, Francis. I am encouraged by the young priests I am meeting, fresh out of seminary, and doing their best to improve the liturgy. Things are looking better and up, although those inclined to negativity …

Comment by CharlesW November 2019 permalink
Reform of the Reform (Propers, Chant, etc.)
Clericalism can involve huge egos, too. There is also a mindset that develops of letting father do everything and we just watch. Not good, since we all have a part to play. The mass is not all about father, although some priests seem to think it is.

Comment by CharlesW November 2019 permalink
Reform of the Reform (Propers, Chant, etc.)
I therefor focus on my need for nourishment, whether physical or spiritual, and try to choose the best available. I think that is what we all do. I'll take "clericalism" and people actually attending Mass and living Christian lives…

Comment by CharlesW November 2019 permalink
Reform of the Reform (Propers, Chant, etc.)
My point is that much of what gets called tradition really isn't. We have what we grew up with and accept it as the way things have always been. Every age, unfortunately, has seen additions, deletions, and re-interpretations of the Roman Rite…

Comment by CharlesW November 2019 permalink
Reform of the Reform (Propers, Chant, etc.)
I don't see all those supposed differences. Yes, the priest faces a different direction. Hardly earth shattering since TLM priests often face west rather than east as tradition actually calls for. Facing the tabernacle. Putting tabernacles o…

Comment by CharlesW November 2019 permalink
Reform of the Reform (Propers, Chant, etc.)
When I attend Mass in the Extraordinary form, I find it normal, and have repeatedly been tormented by the question, "What was so urgently in need of reform?" It had become an exercise in clericalism. It was theater with onlookers, not p…

Comment by CharlesW November 2019 permalink
Reform of the Reform (Propers, Chant, etc.)
It wasn't an error to reform the liturgy. It needed it and changes made to its liturgy were made by the Church. The Church rightly desired to reform that liturgy. Unfortunately, the reforms were poorly managed and went off the rails in too …

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