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The History of the Graduale Romanum - Lecture by Fr Cassian Folsom, OSB - Catholic Inst. of S. Music
Cassian Folsom is the man!

Comment by CGM March 2024 permalink
Metrical Lament of the Virgin
You may be interested in pp. 157 & 159 of this book.

Comment by CGM February 2024 permalink
Aures ad nostras deitatis preces (score to use)
There's a nice three-voice setting by Victoria in the Lindusky Tricinia Sacra.

Comment by CGM February 2024 permalink
Lent II at...
Novus Ordo Mass Introit (as a prelude, alas): Tibi dixit, Gregorian plainsong (in Latin, a cappella) Entrance Hymn: Tis good Lord, to be here (SWABIA) Kyrie: XVII C (in Latin), with organ accompaniment Psalm & Gospel Verse: Ignatius Pew Missal, …

Comment by CGM February 2024 permalink
Count the liturgical atrocities
Just in case anyone wants a little background on the St. Patrick's funeral, see here.

Comment by CGM February 2024 permalink
Requiem Mass for SMALL Choir
Perhaps the Short Communion Service of Batten would work for the Ordinary. You'd have to cut out the brief "Amen" at the end of the Sanctus, but otherwise the text matches exactly with the Ordinariate's formulation.

Comment by CGM February 2024 permalink
Requiem Mass for SMALL Choir
Do you mean a setting of the — Mass Ordinary (Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei) — Mass Propers (Requiem aeternam at Introit, Lux aeterna at Communion, perhaps In Paradisum at the end, etc.) — both Ordinary and Propers?

Comment by CGM February 2024 permalink
Sicut cervus in the liturgy
In the Novus Ordo it can be used on the Easter Vigil as the Responsory following the seventh lesson. I once had a pastor who insisted on that, regardless of what settings were used for the six previous Responsories.

Comment by CGM February 2024 permalink
Beginner Level TTB Polyphonic motets and Masses suggestions
There are thirty-four mostly brief TTB motets in Lindusky's Tricinia Sacra collection, online here. Motets cover the whole church year; composed by Victoria, Palestrina, and Festa.

Comment by CGM February 2024 permalink
Simple repertoire for children's choir
Also the SAB Palestrina "Jesu Rex admirabilis" (Rick Wheeler's edition, with an additional verse in the polyphony and added chant verses as well, is attached). Pueri Cantores has a list here of rep for young choirs. In addition, Pue…

Comment by CGM February 2024 permalink
Bishop Olmsted series, "Singing the Mass"
Just in case anyone wants to revisit Bishop Olmsted's very worthwhile series of articles on liturgical music, with updated URL's: 1. Singing the Mass, Part One: Liturgical Music as participation in Christ 2. Singing the Mass, Part Two: A …

Comment by CGM February 2024 permalink
O bone Jesu - Grancini
This is an edition by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, who in past times was a frequent contributor to this forum. Back in 2015 he posted here a series of twenty 3-vc. motets that he (mostly) had edited. I collected them into a folio which is attached.

Comment by CGM January 2024 permalink
Favorite Score: Mass for 3 Voices - William Byrd
I like Sheila Crossey's edition, available here in separate movements. But the aforementioned edition by David Fraser, here, may be better for SAB, since it's a tone higher.

Comment by CGM January 2024 permalink
Moses Song of Victory (Exodus 15)
1. Attached: the psalm-tone adaptation from Jeff Ostrowski's Lalement Propers (2013) 2ab. Also attached: a PDF with two settings from the Palmer/Burgess Plainchant Gradual (1946) — a complicated adaptation of the Gregorian melody — a simple ps…

Comment by CGM January 2024 permalink
Marian Antiphons in English
Dixit, thanks for your kind words. If only I could've made it rhyme...

Comment by CGM January 2024 permalink
Marian Antiphons in English
I agree with all of OMM's points, and also submit my own English adaptation, free for all to use, adapt, etc.

Comment by CGM January 2024 permalink
Epiphany Proclamation 2021
Richard Clark had uploaded a score for 2024 here. Perhaps he creates (or finds and reposts) this resource every year, so revisit his site next year to check in...

Comment by CGM January 2024 permalink
Order of Mass Handout for front of Hymnals
Pages 3-20 of the Ignatius Press Pew Missal do what you've got in mind. Perhaps you could reach out to them (or to Fr. Samuel Weber directly) and ask about borrowing/licensing a PDF of those opening pages, which you could then adjust as needed…

Comment by CGM January 2024 permalink
Choral setting of “Venite Adoremus” (Good Friday)
Do you mean the quick "Come let us adore him" that is sung three times (in an ostensibly higher key each time) during the procession in with the Cross? In other words, you're looking for a harmonization of that brief response? If th…

Comment by CGM January 2024 permalink
best repertoire for freshman high school choir?
Several years ago Peter Kwasniewski posted on this forum a number of 3-vc motets, principally in SAB scoring, mostly in his own editions (and a couple of his own compositions). I downloaded them all and assembled them into a single PDF. Palestrina…

Comment by CGM January 2024 permalink
SEEK Conference Music
There are five big Masses during SEEK. Three of them feature praise bands, so while the music is probably very well done (given the very experienced band members), it's probably not what MaestroMark (or many of us) would like to experience at …

Comment by CGM January 2024 permalink
B minor mass reduction?
My suggestion would be to go through the scores at CPDL and make a lot of cuts: — replace all the solos with Gregorian chants — replace portions of the choruses with Gregorian chants also — cut out repetitions in the choruses, whenever it won't…

Comment by CGM December 2023 permalink
Comment on Baltimore job opening
A few years back the shrine was looking for a music director. At that time (2019), there were five different volunteer choirs, each led by a singer from within the ensemble, and there was very little coordination/working together between the variou…

Comment by CGM December 2023 permalink
Trying to locate music for this Polish Hymn
I've got the score, with permission from the DLC to pass it along. Anyone who's interested, DM me about it.

Comment by CGM December 2023 permalink
hymn for SSPP
Steve, I'm interested in your "smirkingly cute" text — could you PM it thisaway as well?

Comment by CGM November 2023 permalink
Of the Father's Love Begotten
Many, many moons ago I sang in a chamber choir directed by Bruce Smedley, a fine conductor and composer, who wrote a wonderful setting of this carol (entitled Of the Father's Heart Begotten). Decades later I was fortunate enough to conduct a l…

Comment by CGM November 2023 permalink
Your Favorite Christmas Carol? "Sacred Miscellany" wants to know
Wynton Marsalis's live rendition of Winter Wonderland, because Stephen Scott's piano playing is so incredibly hip. New York Voices's I wonder as I wander. An amazing arrangement & performance, even though the keyboard sound is t…

Comment by CGM November 2023 permalink
Sung Rosary
There's also this: https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2023/11/the-rosary-in-gregorian-chant-psalm.html

Comment by CGM November 2023 permalink
Chicago Catholic Choir (Director: Kevin Allen)
Where I live, — one secular choir just did the Mozart Requiem with orchestra in October, and — another secular choir will do the Mozart Requiem with orchestra in March. — That second choir just did a concert of Byrd (Haec dies a6 + Mass for Five…

Comment by CGM November 2023 permalink
Palmer and Burgess Exsulta Fillia
FYI, the American Gradual may be freely downloaded here.

Comment by CGM November 2023 permalink

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