MatthewRoth

Communications
Messages now need to be super-short, no fluff, in WhatsApp - with strongly enforced group norms about keeping the chat for a chat-group, and the official stuff for the official one. Yeah this is sort of my problem. WA also allows mods-only messag…

Comment by MatthewRoth September 18 permalink
Communications
I said that it did. The it is not clear, but it does not refer to WhatsApp.

Comment by MatthewRoth September 18 permalink
Choir gallery
@Chant_Supremacist reminded me @kevinf that I forgot to mention on FB that our console can move basically anywhere and we can get more tubing to cover the electric stuff (cables?; it’s a giant hose basically) if it’s not long enough. In theory we ca…

Comment by MatthewRoth September 18 permalink
Legitimate Website?
Jeff Ostrowski did that in LA, and it’s simply too much music. It is not especially Roman either. But the organ isn’t a festive treat. I mean, it can be, but it’s a voice of its own. I understand that you need strong singers, but acting as if it’s …

Comment by MatthewRoth September 18 permalink
printer or musician?
And there’s no good (yet) collection of the Ordinary. One of these days, I’d like to put out my version of a Kyriale, but that project is on hold. Then something needs to be used to explain what’s going on. We have Latin motets. I think that transla…

Comment by MatthewRoth September 18 permalink
Lumenarium
I’m kind of annoyed though: that article is wrong (not uncommon, but this is egregious) as the author uses the Bute breviary (which is sometimes a loose translation and not strictly the Roman breviary) which is the Tridentine breviary as revised to …

Comment by MatthewRoth September 18 permalink
Definition of "Solemn"
@Noctcaelador, well, I did. But it was indeed the ancient perspective, and it was so into the 1950s and 60s!

Comment by MatthewRoth September 18 permalink
Communications
I think that my objection to a drive is that it's one more email or account to manage, one more cloud plan to pay for. And it gets cluttered quickly.

Comment by MatthewRoth September 17 permalink
printer or musician?
Imposition isn't the problem, from what I can tell. It's a machine folding or stapling for you (and in my case, the drivers communicating correctly with the OS). I can make all the booklets I want, and they print correctly since you no lon…

Comment by MatthewRoth September 17 permalink
Communications
a number of people really liked the idea of a GroupMe thread, so I'm going to start one of those. GroupMe has a poor attachment system which is to say nothing can be sent besides things from your camera roll/gallery/whatever it is called for y…

Comment by MatthewRoth September 17 permalink
Legitimate Website?
Is there a real need to put all of that in one book? Yes; the French 1960’d up reprint from Le Barroux is very popular. There are days where I would prefer such a thing for pre-55. It has the advantage of having the orations of the full Liber and …

Comment by MatthewRoth September 17 permalink
Definition of "Solemn"
I find the application to music frustrating. Before it meant having the requisite ministers. Music at Mass was normative as a part of the solemn Mass, which was itself the normative liturgy. Everything else references it. In a similar way, the offic…

Comment by MatthewRoth September 17 permalink
printer or musician?
Our copy machine now staples. But Adobe killed the function that allows for saddle-stitched booklets to be printed at the correct scale which is (was) a bug on macOS overcome somehow by Adobe. I guess Adobe Acrobat includes it but not the Reader app…

Comment by MatthewRoth September 16 permalink
Communications
We have a group chat but I don’t like it since I can’t share PDFs (or any documents). It also gets off topic because we’re the men’s schola and act like friends. Which is good but a tad annoying. And even with it muted 10 PM fun messages are annoyi…

Comment by MatthewRoth September 16 permalink
Sancte Michael
When I do chant booklets I only ever print it as a block (if one day Gregorio advances I’d do them like in the 1957 Mass and Vespers book; but that requires Scribus for now). I find interlinear distracting (and in Gregorio tedious)

Comment by MatthewRoth September 14 permalink
Music for Rite of Baptism
I think that “proper” has to mean “you have to do it” (even if it is shared with another feast, Sunday, ceremony). Otherwise it’s not a meaningful term. No other use of “proper” At least before the NO came out allows this pick and choose from an abs…

Comment by MatthewRoth September 12 permalink
Music for Rite of Baptism
(I am pretty anti-NO, but) the NO is problematic on its own terms, and while I have specific examples of SC where I think that it already goes off the rails, so I don’t do the whole « this isn’t the Mass/liturgy desired by the conciliar fathers » th…

Comment by MatthewRoth September 12 permalink
Salva Nos, Domine
Urgh mixing stemless and stems like that is awkward, the translation is off (basically the clauses are switched around), and then starting the repetition on a quarter note is awkward.

Comment by MatthewRoth September 12 permalink
McLaughlin & Reilly Co.
Yeah WMG owns their catalogue. This is a problem for much of the Marier stuff.

Comment by MatthewRoth September 11 permalink
Cantate Domino Chant Workshop with Br. Bachmann, Nashville TN, Sept. 26–28 2025 (to be rescheduled)
We have had something arise outside of our control. We will be rescheduling for Nov 14, 15, and 16. More to come!

Comment by MatthewRoth September 10 permalink
Congregational Plainchant Ordinaries - Greatest Success Stories
My place particularly for Mass XI. We have some polyphonic Masses coming up so it’s just Asperges-Credo-Salve for the people for a few weeks. It is certainly more tentative after the Kyrie in Advent and in Lent, a little more so yet in Paschal Time…

Comment by MatthewRoth September 9 permalink
bad rhythm in a Solesmes edition
I am almost certain that the best we can do is a bistropha. I don’t know if it’s truly neo-Gregorian or an attempt to make something Gregorian of a later chant. But see this is where I think that maybe Dom Pothier and the Vatican Commission had a p…

Comment by MatthewRoth September 7 permalink
About the Commune Sanctorum for Mass
I vastly prefer the original prayers of course.

Comment by MatthewRoth September 5 permalink
"1+ Hour of Exorcist-Approved Chants | Chants of Deliverance—FULL ALBUM"
Well yes. But it wasn’t a mistake. I find “fixed it for you” grating.

Comment by MatthewRoth September 4 permalink
About the Commune Sanctorum for Mass
The only pair.

Comment by MatthewRoth September 4 permalink
Advent Weedays Propers
Note that during the week, my understanding is that you do not have to sing both the Gradual and Alleluia but can choose one or the other or both depending on your community’s needs. We do both anyway on the rare occasions that we do the Latin NO,…

Comment by MatthewRoth September 4 permalink
About the Commune Sanctorum for Mass
What SponsaChristi said is really great. In the usus antiquior it is very likely that the Mass for an abbot was originally Saint Benedict’s and became the common later on. But since the Roman rite is not monastic, only the collect is proper at the …

Comment by MatthewRoth September 4 permalink
"1+ Hour of Exorcist-Approved Chants | Chants of Deliverance—FULL ALBUM"
I’m very curious to which chants are on the list designated as “unapproved by exorcists”? It is a clickbait slop title of the highest order. Floriani ought to be ashamed.

Comment by MatthewRoth September 4 permalink
Advent Weedays Propers
Feria II, III, IV, V, and VI do indeed correspond to Monday through Friday. The church names are the names in Portuguese, the only language to ditch pagan names. So yeah, it does assign weekday propers but I don’t think that repeating the Sunday pr…

Comment by MatthewRoth September 3 permalink
Singing from the 1974 Graduale book
The disadvantage of using the 1974 GR specifically is that you have to flip for the Gloria Patri no matter what. The first bit and the EUOUAE are printed in the preconciliar books; obviously you have to memorize them, but most of the time there’s no…

Comment by MatthewRoth September 3 permalink

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