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What compositions/arrangements are needed?
Texts of the Tenebrae responsories that are simpler or even in English.

Comment by kevinf May 30 permalink
Journeysings —thoughts?
Another wretched book.

Comment by kevinf May 24 permalink
Is a vernacular gradual (chant) licit?
@kevinf that may be the case, but don’t the majority of people use products from OCP or similar? I rest my case. No, that,too is NOT TRUE. Probably the greatest majority of parishes in my archdiocese use Worship 4 or Gather 2 or 3. From there, one…

Comment by kevinf May 21 permalink
Is a vernacular gradual (chant) licit?
Actually, yeah, most parishes in the US do have hymnals with an imprimatur.. That is NOT TRUE. I have on my desk three hymnals from the last 25 years and none of them have an imprimatur.

Comment by kevinf May 21 permalink
Please tell me about your funeral choirs
No hymns at the Requiem Mass.

Comment by kevinf May 14 permalink
Please tell me about your funeral choirs
We sing the propers and the Ordinary in Latin. Nothing else. Some love it. Some hate it. I do not care. Its what we do.

Comment by kevinf May 14 permalink
Pope Leo XIV
"Our people"=liturgists actually concerned with the liturgy and folks who love the traditional Latin Mass.

Comment by kevinf May 12 permalink
Do we need a DOM in a large, musically-diverse parish?
well, you should be doing it because it's a calling, and we don't pay our other volunteers", More bullshit. You get what you pay for.

Comment by kevinf April 30 permalink
Do we need a DOM in a large, musically-diverse parish?
You need a DOM because you have 4 mini-parishes. That is the problem.

Comment by kevinf April 30 permalink
Why no hymns at Pope Francis' funeral?
Please, I love propers and hymns. Its about balance.

Comment by kevinf April 26 permalink
Rest in peace PP Francis
While it is customary to not speak ill of the dead, the Romans also have the "damnatio memoria". Francis made one hell of a mess and the next Pope will have much to deal with, that is,if he dare to clean up the filth of the various dicaste…

Comment by kevinf April 24 permalink
Rest in peace PP Francis
Sadly the main street media has canonized him. Pray for his soul because we should for anyone who has died.

Comment by kevinf April 22 permalink
"Communion hymn must be about the Eucharist"
If the liturgy spoke solely for itself as it is given to us, through the Proper texts, precious few of these arbitrary rules would survive. Arbitrary is an understatement.

Comment by kevinf April 10 permalink
journals for sacred music
The B16 Center in San Francisco now publishes Cantate! A Sacred Music journal online. Latest issue:https://substack.com/@cantate

Comment by kevinf April 4 permalink
The Hymnal Industrial Complex
While Fr. Ruff has done a good bit of scholarship on chant, after reading him, I realized (and was reminded in this thread) that he has sold out to the modernists. The best thing to do is to not read his books and/or quote him.

Comment by kevinf March 26 permalink
The Hymnal Industrial Complex
Contemporaryworship92- I find your arguments internally consistent if I assent to the following principles: Things are not as they seem. If 1 is not higher than 4, then why do we count at all. The introduction of option 4 is a new concept in the c…

Comment by kevinf March 25 permalink
Reopening Ceremonies and Other Events at the Church of the Assumption, Nashville TN
This is such good news. My grandmother was baptized at the parish. Catholic Nashville is my lineage. I did not know Bishop Spaulding can celebrate the tlm. Is he just sitting in choir? I know him from when he was a priest in Louisville. One is part…

Comment by kevinf March 24 permalink
Advice needed: auditions and job applications
Since I was the one who posted, let me say: The times are changing and younger clerics are more clear and want better music. Salaries are significantly better (I know a fine job right now paying 90k). Know the documents, be prepared to demonstrate a…

Comment by kevinf March 22 permalink
Advice needed: auditions and job applications
By and large, priests and committees don't know what they are looking for. End of sentence.......

Comment by kevinf March 22 permalink
The Hymnal Industrial Complex
So, you can support GIA,which has some good things but also materially cooperates with evil (the David Haas affair and other things) or not. I have not ordered from GIA (and OCP) since 2000 and do not plan to order from them at all. One does not &q…

Comment by kevinf March 21 permalink
Congregational singing
The fact the John Baldovin had anything good to say about chant is shocking, since he is a dinosaur from when I was in grad school in the 1980's. No biological solution yet! As to congregational singing, why do we prize that as something gra…

Comment by kevinf March 18 permalink
“Highly Competitive”
I have worked in the Latin rite Novus Ordo for 42 years as of this Easter. I write as someone who did not do chant, polyphony and hymnody until about 1996-97 ( after reading Ratzinger's Spirit of the Liturgy). I have been on an increasing journ…

Comment by kevinf March 8 permalink
Mandating vernacular only in a diocese
In the Archdiocese of Atlanta, the present archbishop has incurred that no priest celebrate a Latin liturgy (orations, canon) without his permission. While communities (like mine) sing in Latin, the priest cannot say the canon in Latin or his parts …

Comment by kevinf February 15 permalink
HELP - need 4th Edition St. Michael Hymnal organ edition
I have one.

Comment by kevinf January 18 permalink
Notre Dame de Paris
Olivier Latry, one of the 4 titulaires, was very dismissive of the criticism of the improvisations and was angered by the responses. One has to know that his work is very stylistic and you know it when you hear it. As an organist, Latry can go pret…

Comment by kevinf December 2024 permalink
Southeastern NH - good parishes to visit?
Check out the Cathedral of St. Joesph in Manchester. Great music being done there.

Comment by kevinf December 2024 permalink
Organ Accompaniment Edition of an old French Hymnal "Laudemus Dominum"
Check the BN....as in Bibiloteque National, in France.

Comment by kevinf December 2024 permalink
Announcing a major new offering: "The Our Lady of Mount Carmel Hymnal"
but it’s somewhat better to make a singer’s edition with harmonizations that the organist can play from, rather than an organ edition to sing from.) As a trained organist, absolutely. Organists who cannot read from such...

Comment by kevinf December 2024 permalink
Notre Dame de Paris
because if they don't raise money, the organs are left to rot, because the state wont fix them. Because France is basically broke. The state was better at one time but now its really bad. They are dealing with many of the same problems that th…

Comment by kevinf December 2024 permalink
Notre Dame de Paris
I confess I was irked when the France24 commentators described President Macron as the “‘owner’ (as it were) going to visit his property”. Americans don't understand this but yes the "state" is the owner of the churches built before …

Comment by kevinf December 2024 permalink

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