MatthewRoth

Ascension Thursday/Sunday 2022
I have never heard of it. In more recent times, Mass XIV is assigned for the days within the octave, if there even are any that are of the season, but I have always understood that Mass I is still used on Sunday, and I'm also sure that people d…

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Keeping it short
Right, there's a difference between "in a hurry" and "how long things take." We had maybe thirty people for the Requiem Mass offered today; ordinarily, I'd do these things in the mornings of public holidays (that is, si…

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Have you ever encountered this one?
The one clear rule is that an EMC can never wear any kind of vestment. Hence, in the Archdiocese of Washington, where an altar server CAN be an EMC (explicit rule), that person should take off their vestments, as I did. That is surprising since ins…

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What’s your music plan for the summer?
Our parish does everything normally, because we do not (yet!) have a professional program. At my longtime parish in another diocese, the DM took a weekend or two away for vacation and events like the Colloquium, so there would be something like a su…

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Priest’s shying away of the masculine pronouns
Right. But it's almost beside the point.

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Priest’s shying away of the masculine pronouns
Chris, I don't know if I can pronounce on that. But what I would say is this: it is one thing to use "Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier," and yes, one avoids all pronouns by doing so. In passing, I also note that, according to a profe…

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Priest’s shying away of the masculine pronouns
It's one thing to be against using masculine pronouns for the Trinity, although I find this to be stale, and it's wrong and gravely sinful. It's another to be against this for Jesus, who was born a man.

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Stems in GABC notation
well… it can be fixed (and reversed), but I note that the source for Gregobase's purposes is "technically" the 1961 GR. I don't particularly care that the Triplex has the virga and that 1961 doesn't; this is something to add…

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Keeping it short
I vehemently disagree, for two reasons, one practical, one ecclesiastical. I want my Sunday, and this is all the more true when I am teaching catechism after Mass (or someone is being catechized — when I was in class from 10:45 to 12:00, I felt this…

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Keeping it short
Yeah, I went to a Mass at 7:30 hoping to escape music; I knew that an 8:00 Mass in the parish next door would have it, and it was the Boomer hit list. (I can tolerate only a very small number of these, which I'm never going to get all at once…)…

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Keeping it short
The real trick is seeing what happens when it’s one of the earlier Masses that is considered the principal Mass.

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Corpus Christi Procession: Only at the Principal Mass?
Short answer: Yes, it's after the principal Mass or that of the external solemnity (normally one, except by indult, and nowadays that's the default in much of the world). Longer answer: (I don't have any good 1960 sources at the mome…

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Priest’s shying away of the masculine pronouns
Too bad, honestly. Hand-wringing about this would be amusing, were it not for the fact that gender-neutral language is a trifling concern. That is, even if we did choose to eliminate "men" (I don't think we can, it's in the text …

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Kid-friendly liturgy
I mean, a lot of those people were indistinguishable from other Americans in certain ways. Originalism may have largely been invented as a way to turn Roe v. Wade, but its holders frequently hold other commitments incompatible with Catholic teaching…

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beginners' intonation training apps?
Elementary music curricula unfortunately serve mostly as an introduction to "music," whereas they should focus much more on vocal music. I know that I did solfège, and others do as well even today, but it doesn't stick, it seems, if t…

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beginners' intonation training apps?
uh, I speak only for myself (and I'm hoping to find a voice teacher here, as it happens: David's comment at the top of the thread describes my situation succinctly): I sing flat, and I was always a little flat more than I ever was sharp wh…

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procession music for feast St. Anthony
Do you have any limitations. Responsories are a bit weird in processions, but the Palm Sunday procession has chants that work well (they're technically antiphons, but they are long). We pray this prayer after Mass on Tuesdays. Here's the m…

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Should 'Lux et origo' (Mass I) be used daily in Pascaltide?
The assignments of the Kyriale are not obligatory, but within reason and custom. I know of one apostolate that, because the Incarnation and Our Lady are linked (the doxology of hymns for Marian feasts is that of the incarnation), uses Mass IX for Ch…

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How did the kyriales get their names?
Yeah, at best. We will soon be limiting it to more important votive Masses not of the Virgin and to minor feasts. Yes, but the trope does not begin “De Angelis,” and while that Kyrie apparently is much earlier than originally thought, the trope h…

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How did the kyriales get their names?
I didn't know this until now, but apparently, not all of the Kyries were troped originally even if they have a Latin name. De Angelis became popular for solemn votive Masses, such as that of the Angels suggested for Mondays. (This is where Mass…

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Music for the Chartres pilgrimage…
I’ve prayed the rosary a few dozen times with French groups, on retreats and even before Sunday Mass. They sing in parts without accompaniment. No, I know exactly the response that I’m going to get from the Frogs: “what are you talking about?” I …

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Ordinariate Sung English Paternoster Score
MJO: melodies, rather. This was one of the big problems before 2011, and to an extent it still is, since the Ordinariate apparently did its thing. ICEL wanted a unified tone, but they also knew that people could actually sing each national version r…

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Music for the Chartres pilgrimage…
This is out of my wheelhouse a little bit (and the multiple ??? are a little aggressive, no? I’d appreciate an offer to help, but I’m not really in the mood to have my parade totally rained on. Until today, I’m not aware that any of this existed at …

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What to look for (or intentionally put) in a job description
I note that a recent job posting here is short, sweet, and to the point. Good, and thank you, Fr. Pastor for that.

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Ordinariate Sung English Paternoster Score
Is this it? This is the one that the Ordinariate community in Louisville uses, including when the bishop comes, so I always assumed that it was standard, at least in the US and Canada.

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Solemnities and Sundays
Another thing totally messed up by the reform!

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Hymns for Good Shepherd Sunday
This arrangement/contrafactum was done by Richard R. Terry, 1st performed on the Advent I, 1902, and published in his "Downside Motets" collection in 1905. Indeed, that's my point, made another way. Terry had to make this arrangement…

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Hymns for Good Shepherd Sunday
I remember being at a NO Mass mostly in English where they used the contrafactum, and I thought to myself, "Why use this, when you can use the English? Isn't that the point…?"

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Musical pieces for Reception of a Bishop
^this. If you can't do the traditional chants, organ is great.

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Gregorian Institute of Canada: The Feast of St. Margaret, July 19-20, 2022, Burlington Ontario
alas… The communio in sacris problem is very real with this.

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