NihilNominis

USCCB-authorized provisional responsorial psalms from Abbey Psalms & Canticles
Even more modern than Different to Be Different, they are Different In Order To Be Correct In An Esoteric Way Mere Mortals Couldn’t Possibly Comprehend.

Comment by NihilNominis January 2023 permalink
USCCB-authorized provisional responsorial psalms from Abbey Psalms & Canticles
Why are we still talking about Gelineau and his weird ideas? They’re hard to sing and fussy, and just seem different to be different.

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USCCB-authorized provisional responsorial psalms from Abbey Psalms & Canticles
Frankly, I don’t see anything in this translation that represents such a great improvement on what we have, to justify the effort spent to replace the existing one. Much of what we have seems to have more (which should not be confused with “much”) p…

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USCCB-authorized provisional responsorial psalms from Abbey Psalms & Canticles
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General Instruction of the Liturgy of the Hours re: Hymns. How to understand this!
“introduce fresh compositions” = any hymn for an office the bishops deem appropriate. 177 - there were newly written Latin texts that didn’t have melodies. These were to be assigned melodies from the Gregorian repertoire.

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Program for the Funeral Mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
As a friend pointed out... no Roman Canon?

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Solid State Organ System Weird Issue
That would explain the MFM, which is a MIDI processor. Otherwise there is no MIDI functionality.

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Solid State Organ System Weird Issue
Good question!

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Parish Music Meeting A'Coming. Add Your Thoughts.
Everything I say below is very direct. I’m writing at to speed, and I’m trying to just be honest with my initial impressions of what I’m reading. Please do not assume that I am being aggressive or trying to be snarky. Neither one is the case. The b…

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Well-grounded thoughts, please
I once witnessed a rehearsal where the director was trying to get people to massage certain neumes and liquescents and the like in an effort to have a very nuanced interpretation, but the group didn’t even know what the melody was or how to read ev…

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Praetorius, "Quem Pastores" ad 11 from the Puericinium of 1621, arranged for SATB Choir [RECORDING!]
Thank you both! What a kind comment, Jackson -- that McCreesh recording is deeply embedded in my heart, and it was so enormously satisfying to get to sing this piece.

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Hymn of the Month - December: Sleep, Holy Babe
This is the Choir and Orchestra of the Cincinnati Oratory, Old St. Mary’s Church, Cincinnati, OH, along with the 21 member Laudate Pueri Children’s Schola Cantorum. Director / Organist of the Oratory Choir: Sean Connolly Directors of Laudate Pueri…

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Hymn of the Month - December: Sleep, Holy Babe
Thank you, Don! What details do you need?

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Hymn of the Month - December: Sleep, Holy Babe
Here is our recording of the Schloeder tune from Midnight Mass in Cincinnati this year!

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Christmas 2022 music lists
[I will be a good boy and only share a thing in one place, excited tho I be about it...]

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Praetorius, "Quem Pastores" ad 11 from the Puericinium of 1621, arranged for SATB Choir [RECORDING!]
Here is a recording of this arrangement from this year at Midnight Mass (using the Jallo "Capella fidicinia" parts for the string players, and my edition for the singers). This made my heart dance.

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Genre term for "Composed suite of Low Mass hymns"
Still true!

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Christmas 2022 music lists
18 voice choir, 9 piece orchestra, 21 member children’s choir. Midnight. Carols: See, Amid the Winter's Snow; Lo, How a Rose; O Jesus Christ, Thy Manger is; Angels We Have Heard on High; O Little One Sweet; Sleep, Holy…

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Advent 2022
As it turned out... Proper: Full Gregorian Ordinary for Sundays: Mass XVII, Credo I Ordinary for Immaculate Conception: Hassler, Missa Secunda, Credo III, Et incarnatus est, J. Flaherty Ordinary for Rorate Caeli Mass: Lassus, Missa ad imitatione…

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Advent Prose; Rorate Caeli in English for singing
I swear by this version. Luscious.

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Immaculate Conception 2022
I failed to mention that we sang eleven verses of Immaculate Mary. I have now tested whether they _really like_ singing every verse as they claimed or were just putting me on. They really like it.

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Immaculate Conception 2022
Marienkirche (Alt) 13th and Main St. Over-the-Rhine Cincinnati, OH 12.10 Mass (lunchtime daily Mass) Prelude: Improvisation Introit: English Plainsong Gloria: Set to Carpatho-Rusyn Prostopinije Chant (to be quick for the lunch Mass) Psalm: sung, o…

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(Speculative) Music for Mass during time of blizzard?
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"First Right of Refusal" ??
Here the diocese has banned bench fees. Don't call it a bench fee. Itemize the organizational side tasks that need to be done for a wedding by the director of music / regular organist, and compensate those. Does he meet with couples? Check the…

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Hymn of the Month - December: Sleep, Holy Babe
They sing it every year in Sleepy Eye, for probably a century! So it survives somewhere!

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Hymn of the Month - December: Sleep, Holy Babe
I know this text to the attached tune, which is apparently uncommon.

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Papal Responses to the Emergence of the TLM Movement
As a general rule, I think the progressive side is far less likely to simply coexist liturgically, but to say that everyone on the traditional side simply want to be left alone and to leave everyone else alone seems slightly inaccurate. True, and…

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Papal Responses to the Emergence of the TLM Movement
The point is that the whole order of the calendar, the lectionary, the texts of the prayers, so much of the gestural language, all of this has been altered, in very significant ways. Of course, you don’t alter something in a significant way if you d…

Comment by NihilNominis November 2022 permalink
Christmas hymn to St Joseph
You are too kind to my French, Serviam... Merci beaucoup! It was sad, though, being in the heart of a city of over 10 million people, and being in a nearly empty church on Christmas… sigh. Gloria in excelsis, indeed, for there was little glory in …

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Christmas hymn to St Joseph
I think we found Charles' favorite French Noël!

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