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Marian Music during Ordinary Time
I've been known to schedule Marian music or a hymn when a Marian feast happens to fall on a Sunday, even if it's not celebrated liturgically. For example, the feast of the Nativity of Our Lady, Sept. 8, falls on a Sunday this year.

Comment by rich_enough June 2024 permalink
Favorite 8.7.8.7. Double Tune?
". . . the . . . original (public domain) setting (music and text) is better in so many ways . . . " As is usually the case . . .

Comment by rich_enough June 2024 permalink
Fauxbourdon Responsorial Psalms
This completes Ordinary Time for Year B (except OT 9 which, according to this website, won't be used until 2034!): OT 18 and 25 (separate copies for Soprano and ATB), 27

Comment by rich_enough June 2024 permalink
Assumption motet
Ave gratia plena by Cornelius Verdonck is lovely and not too difficult. And the only copy is preserved in an engraving! (see this video recording of the work)

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Unseasonal Question: Offertory Hymn for Epiphany for small choir
Another lovely Epiphany hymn is "Saw You Never in the Twilight" (The Hymnal 1940, #50) set to the tune CHARTRES.

Comment by rich_enough April 2024 permalink
choral motet for Confirmation
You could sing the old chestnut Confirma hoc, Deus of Rheinberger. Very short, but can be complemented with the chant antiphon (see attached). It's scored for SATB, but with organ accompaniment you could have the men sing the tenor or the bass …

Comment by rich_enough April 2024 permalink
Fauxbourdon Responsorial Psalms
Pentecost Extended Vigil after 1st reading - Ps 33, attached after 2nd reading - same as Trinity Sunday A after 2nd reading (alternate) - same as Lent 3 B after 3rd reading - Ps 107, attached after 4th reading - same as Pentecost Vigil attached above

Comment by rich_enough April 2024 permalink
Fauxbourdon Responsorial Psalms
Pentecost - Vigil Sts. Peter and Paul - Vigil

Comment by rich_enough April 2024 permalink
Fauxbourdon Responsorial Psalms
Here are some of my psalm settings upcoming for Year B and not on the Chabanel website: Easter 7 Trinity Sunday OT 21 (separate copies for Soprano and ATB) I plan to post soon upcoming psalms that are still missing for Year B: OT 9, 18, 25, 27 Pen…

Comment by rich_enough April 2024 permalink
Splashy polyphony for a concert program
If you're looking for "splashy" (faster, more "virtuosic" sounding works) for SATB from the Renaissance, here are some - and they're fun to sing! General *Exsultate Justi - Viadana *Cantate Domino – Hasssler Jubilate D…

Comment by rich_enough April 2024 permalink
Name of the Solemn Vigil Alleluia on Gregobase?
You can also browse chants by the page number of the chant book where they are found, using the list on the bottom half of the "Scores" page. If you're using the 1961 Liber Usualis, for example, and the Alleluia in question can be f…

Comment by rich_enough March 2024 permalink
Suggestions for a Processional Hymn on Holy Thursday
@PaxTecum - I have to give credit to you for introducing me to "The Word of God Proceeding Forth" set to Hereford - wonderful!

Comment by rich_enough March 2024 permalink
Suggestions for a Processional Hymn on Holy Thursday
For a change of pace you might consider "The Word of God Proceeding Forth," set to ROCKINGHAM, or better yet, set to HEREFORD, a wonderful melody by Samuel Sebastian Wesley. The text is a translation of St. Thomas Aquinas' hymn at Lau…

Comment by rich_enough March 2024 permalink
Palm Sunday
Sts. Cyril and Methodius Oratory, Bridgeport, Connecticut (ICKSP) No solo organ music Antiphon: Hosanna Filio David - Victoria (arr. SAS) Procession chants: Cum appropinquaret Dominus, etc.; At the entrance to the church: Gloria, laus et honor …

Comment by rich_enough March 2024 permalink
Passion Sunday at...
Sts. Cyril and Methodius Oratory, Bridgeport, Connecticut (ICKSP) No solo organ music Proper Gregorian chants of the day: Judica me, Deus Mass Ordinary: Mass XVII (with Kyrie "A" for Lent); Credo I Motet at the Offertory: Hoc corpus - …

Comment by rich_enough March 2024 permalink
Free Score: 'Alleluia de Angelis'
I find this Alleluia to be quite natural, even "traditional," given that the Sanctus of the Missa de Angelis is itself an arrangement of the Magnificat antiphon "O quam suavis est" from the Vespers of Corpus Christi.

Comment by rich_enough March 2024 permalink
Mass for 50th Anniversary of a Priest
There is no Mass for the anniversary of ordination, but you could choose chants from the Mass "Pro sacerdotibus" listed on p. 651.

Comment by rich_enough February 2024 permalink
Lent II at...
Sts. Cyril and Methodius Oratory, Bridgeport, Connecticut (ICKSP) No solo organ music Proper Gregorian chants of the day: Reminiscere Mass Ordinary: Mass XVII (with Kyrie "A" for Lent); Credo I Music at the Offertory: Attende, Domine -…

Comment by rich_enough February 2024 permalink
Count the liturgical atrocities
@fcb - The fact that "not many rubrics were violated" doesn't speak well for the rubrics. If this - even legally speaking - is as legitimate expression of the Roman rite as one with full Gregorian chant, then there isn't much Rom…

Comment by rich_enough February 2024 permalink
Use of instruments during Lent?
The customary way to understand this is that strictly liturgical services (Mass, Vespers) follow the no-organ rule, whereas para- or non-liturgical services (Benediction, Stations of the Cross, Seven Last Words, etc.), would not. Having said that,…

Comment by rich_enough February 2024 permalink
Excellent article about sacred music in The Pillar
Excellent comment from our friend Andrew Motyka.

Comment by rich_enough February 2024 permalink
Article critical of contemporary liturgical music
Always wondered why some parishes pay only for music from the past 10 or 15 years when there's almost an unlimited amount of (better!) music from the past 1000 - all for free.

Comment by rich_enough February 2024 permalink
I Hate Latin discussion
But it was sold to the Boomers and they kept it going through the next couple of decades. While I agree that HV was a major (if not the major) factor in people leaving, disillusionment with the liturgical changes has been underreported and underem…

Comment by rich_enough January 2024 permalink
I Hate Latin discussion
I agree with Liam in that from what I've experienced, more often than not the opposition to Latin is not rational - it's a matter of personal and emotional investment. It doesn't matter that Vatican II called for it to be preserved,…

Comment by rich_enough January 2024 permalink
How to get .pdf of Hymns, Psalms and Spiritual Canticles?
@Lars - I sent you a message.

Comment by rich_enough January 2024 permalink
Palm Sunday: Sung St. Mark Passion
CMAA's Dr. Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka has set the NAB version here.

Comment by rich_enough January 2024 permalink
Propers for the feast of the North American Martyrs
You can find the gabc files of individual chants at GregoBase.

Comment by rich_enough January 2024 permalink
Christmas 2023
Sts. Cyril and Methodius Oratory, Bridgeport, Connecticut (ICKSP) First Mass of Christmas - Mass at Midnight Carols Before Mass Angels We Have Heard on High Holst – In the Bleak Midwinter Let Our Gladness Have No End – Slovak carol God Rest Ye Mer…

Comment by rich_enough December 2023 permalink
Marian postludes
Pieces based on the Ave maris stella: The last verset of Titelouze's setting can be played a postlude. Guilmant's "Sortie" from the second book of his L'Organiste liturgiste, op. 65, is also a good postlude. The ninth p…

Comment by rich_enough December 2023 permalink
Immaculate Conception
Sts. Cyril and Methodius Oratory, Bridgeport, Connecticut (ICKSP) Organ Prelude: “Speciosa facta es” from 15 Pieces, op. 18, no. 5 - Marcel Dupré (1886–1971) Hymn: Holy Light on Earth’s Horizon (BLAENWERN) - with last vers…

Comment by rich_enough December 2023 permalink

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