CharlesW

Amateur, Professional, Paid or Volunteer . . .
I played recitals for years. It was accompanying that was difficult to learn. Now, I seldom do recitals, just accompany.

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Amateur, Professional, Paid or Volunteer . . .
The best possible Church Musician will be an excellent organist, liturgist, choral conductor, chironomist, rubricist, composer, arranger, pedagogue, singer, and etc. He or she will have advanced degrees in one or several of those fields, be fluent i…

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Does your choir have a name?
We have St. Mark UMC, St. Luke UMC, and on and on. Methodists do it, too. It isn't just a Catholic thing. I wonder if the s' ending will disappear as archaic, since English does change over time. Forsooth!

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How much study on piano is necessary before studying organ?
I think what some have implied, is that piano background may be more beneficial when playing Romantic organ music. It can be highly pianistic in technique. Piano may not be as helpful with early Baroque works whose composers never saw or heard a p…

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How much study on piano is necessary before studying organ?
That isn't what he/she meant! LOL

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Funeral Mass advice
Exactly, Gavin. Although with one priest I worked with, I am sure my information came from the other end of the horse. :-)

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Farrell's 'Save Your People'
I don't disagree. Maybe I will look at CBOL again in the future, but probably not right now. COBOL is the programming language - LOL. I will remember looking for tiny errors in those programs forever.

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Funeral Mass advice
I was instructed to not use a kyrie for funerals, although the priest didn't explain why. You definitely need to coordinate everything with the officiating priest. I can't answer all your questions, but may the soul of your father rest i…

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Farrell's 'Save Your People'
Could have been the relic's choice, who knows? All those drugs in the 70s probably damaged his hearing. ;-) It was truly wretched, and the accompanist nearly so. Granted, I have heard far worse pieces of music than this hymn. But I haven�…

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How do we get rid of spam on this forum?
Gucci? They think musicians make that much? BwaHaHa.

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Farrell's 'Save Your People'
No offense taken. My experience with that piece was hearing a group of middle-schoolers with the requisite relic from the 70s accompanying on guitar. Truly awful! My interaction with the Worship series of hymnals ended with Worship II (fine hym…

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Any beginner-moderate level church musicians?
I can play organ at a higher level, but there is one thing I have found from being a busy church musician. I don't have adequate practice time. The really good concert players spend hours in practice. That's something I have never been …

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How much study on piano is necessary before studying organ?
Can you even imagine what one of those would cost?

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Cantors- a paid profession??
As an accredited teacher for many years, I can tell you that each class can have its own unique personality. I have known classes that were sweet and cooperative and loved to sing at first communion, or other such events. I have also known classes…

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Farrell's 'Save Your People'
But I digress... Don't we all. LOL. It's our favorite pastime. :-)

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2012 June 24, Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, is a * SUNDAY * this year
New calendarist heretic! Is outrage. ;-)

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How much study on piano is necessary before studying organ?
I think you need to be able to read notes comfortably. Being old enough to reach the organ pedals is also helpful.

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Victoria Motets
Shh! It's secret, although Victoria doesn't have any secrets. ;-)

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Cantors- a paid profession??
We don't, and I won't allow it to happen!

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Cantors- a paid profession??
Maybe your congregation does need the song leader. I am not there, so I don't know them. But it sure sounds to me like you represent a major change and they don't follow you because they don't want to.

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Farrell's 'Save Your People'
I just remember "Christ Be Our Light." I could visualize the hippo ballerinas from Fantasia thumping around the dance floor in waltz time to the refrain.

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Farrell's 'Save Your People'
Most of my students had seen both versions of Willy Wonka. Running seems like a good idea, cgz. I would do the same.

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Compensation for weddings and funerals
Our priests tell folks that the parish does not pay musicians for weddings and funerals. It is up to them to pay.

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EF in vernacular?
In some places, they still do. It just isn't talked about.

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Cantors- a paid profession??
I don't think singing is Protestant, but congregational singing was limited in many places prior to Vatican II. Catholics didn't have a strong tradition of singing like Protestants. That doesn't mean they can't be taught to sin…

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La Peche Miraculeuse
My grandmother's family was French, so perhaps that may explain my fondness for their music and worship. I am encouraged to see the conservative French fighting for the integrity, faith and heritage of their country. They clearly see where pr…

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The Horizontal Episema over the Clivis
Hmm! Those "Renaissance Latin" scholars sound about as self-righteous, arrogant, misinformed, and obnoxious as some of the modern day organ and chant scholars. Who would have thought?

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How much study on piano is necessary before studying organ?
I didn't have more than a few years of piano, and did most of that because I had to in college. Easily and comfortably I tell anyone who asks that I don't consider myself a pianist. I fell in love with the organ at an early age, and that…

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EF in vernacular?
Makes sense.

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EF in vernacular?
I noticed that at a service with the Ecumenical Patriarch, Pope John Paul II dropped filioque from the recited creed. Filioque is not the issue that it used to be, and both sides understand each other's position better today, I think, But the…

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