IanW

CMAA Compositions/Arrangements
Arrangement of Gradual Communio, 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cantor + SATB. The cantor part is written for tenor, but could be sung by a sop, 8VA.

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UK Papal Visit
Newman was an active musician, and considered (in The Idea of a University) music to be the expression of ideas greater and more profound than any in the visible world. Susan Treacy has written an article on John Henry Newman and Music for Adoremus.

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UK Papal Visit
Steve, It's no coincidence that Scottish Regiments have, historically speaking, advanced on the enemy with bayonets fixed and bagpipes skirling. It would scare the life out of me.

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UK Papal Visit
Maestro, My 'excellent for Scotland' referred to the value of the proffered link to those who wanted to know about music for the the Scottish part of the visit (I was trying to say "the link is only for Scotland, not the other part o…

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UK Papal Visit
Maureen, :oops: Thanks for the correction of the copyright acknowledgements. However, my suggestion of Papal shock related to the wail of the pipes as they play "New Britain", not the tune or hymn, which I rather like.

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UK Papal Visit
Here's a link to the 'liturgy' page on the visit website. The page links to a .pdf version of the 'Magnificat' booklet that contains the papal liturgies and associated material, including music. The Bishops of the two Conf…

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CMAA Compositions/Arrangements
Here's an arrangement of Vovete, the Communio for 23rd in Ordinary Time.

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Up with Willan choral propers
"...Scotch by absorption". I like the sound of that, and it doesn't appear to have had any negative effect on the music.

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FAQ Question Suggestions
How do we reconcile the four-line verses of responsorial psalms with the binary nature of psalm-tone formulae?

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What we really need more than anything else
I don't think people should get hung up on the Missal vs. Gradual texts. Once we accept that our parishes are on a journey towards the ideal, it's quite reasonable to use simple tone formulae to set Missal Propers at an early stage. We h…

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UK Papal Visit
Excellent for Scotland. Thanks.

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Marian Antiphons after Mass
Not getting anything from that link, Incantu.

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Enduring organizations
... and that there are particular ways in which the exception differs from the generality that are the reason for its freedom from the rule, which it thereby confirms.

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Dream of a Catholic musician: James MacMillan at Colloquium?
The context of my use of the P word was that we have new music from composers with a variety of ways of life - from course members who do other things for a living to those whose main work activity is composing; and this alongside daily chant, polyp…

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Dream of a Catholic musician: James MacMillan at Colloquium?
I think it's possible to do old and new, and in the process actively encourage composition. More: it's desirable. If Perotin and others hadn't been allowed to adventure with organum, the Church might not have been able to come to re…

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Damian Thompson on the UK Papal Visit Music
Kathy: Wonderful. As to this event and what's planned for it: well, Westminster's choir would have to be amplified in an unsuitable way for them to be heard, so it's got to be something else. The problem is that 'something else…

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Hands Down, the best hymnal
if you don't have his support. you may end up having to go thither. :-)

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Hands Down, the best hymnal
There are many in there that suffer from extremely dated language and would not be useful. I don't think sacral English is such a problem, Noel. "Hail thee festival day, blessed day that art hallowed for ever", for example, is a mar…

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Salve Regina as hymn of praise after Communion?
I think what you're suggesting is inserting something into a blank spot in the Liturgy. I don't think that's bad in principal (I guess it's one way the liturgy developed in the first place), but (i) this isn't exactly a lit…

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Hands Down, the best hymnal
And the Protestants don't have all the best programmers They do, however, have a damn fine hymn book or two. My proposal for a new hymnal is a Catholic version of the English Hymnal: take the latest public domain edition (the first dates to 1…

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Hands Down, the best hymnal
As a computer guy, I had learned COBOL and other computer languages, including SNOBOL, and had heard of WATBOL and DIBOL Goodness, Chronak, that dates you. I'm glad to see the greybeard count here. And the Protestants don't have all the…

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Salve Regina as hymn of praise after Communion?
The focus of communion is Our Lord. There is, though, a long-standing tradition of singing a Marian anthem immediately after the Concluding Rite. The practice is to sing one of four such according to season: the Salve Regina after Pentecost; the A…

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the PBC and Franciscan
It travels, too. I discovered copies in Nick Gale's choir stalls at St. George's Cathedral, Southwark, in London.

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What "Contemporary" Hymns/Songs do you LIKE?
Inwood's Gathering Mass ... only joking.

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What "Contemporary" Hymns/Songs do you LIKE?
Messiaen's O Sacrum Convivium

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What "Contemporary" Hymns/Songs do you LIKE?
Tavener's The Lamb

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Propers lite
A chant from the Graduale may be beatiful and more complex, but there's something very moving about prayer sung to a moderately elaborated and reiterated tone. That's why it's so deeply affecting in the Office and its Anglican equiva…

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The Death of the Novus Ordo in Latin?
The recessional hymn has no competition. There you go. That's true, Michael, and the Marian anthem proper to the time of year is a hymn. And if the vernacular is preferred, people do love those traditional translations :-)

Comment by IanW July 2010 permalink
The Death of the Novus Ordo in Latin?
It's not the humo(u)r, Francis, but bewilderment at your over-statement of a pragmatic case, and your strange assignment to England of a sacral English that is the heritage and product of the whole Anglophone world, including the Catholic eleme…

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The Death of the Novus Ordo in Latin?
Thee, Thi, Tho, Thum; I smell the talk of the English mun! ???????????????????????????????????????

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