MatthewRoth

Music Director as Prompter for Priest
That should be the server’s job, whether he be the sole server or the master of ceremonies. Some people complain the MC overshadows the deacon as the chief assistant to the priest, but I don’t think the deacon is in a place to remind the priest of t…

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Philippe Lefebvre's Entree improvisation - What do you think?
That’s the thing. The French have a chant-based choral tradition, but their hymns are pious and devotional but abhorrent in sound to Anglo-Saxon ears. Their hymns are true folk tunes. The songbook of the Chartres walk demonstrates this, and that isn…

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Using actual Latin Hymns at an actual Latin Mass - a taboo few dare to cross!
Haha. Bill Riccio taught me to MC. And when I would serve the OF at home I always looked back for a cue, usually a good two verses in. Father goes to the chair, then he charges the thurible for the incensation of the altar after the hymn as the Intr…

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Using actual Latin Hymns at an actual Latin Mass - a taboo few dare to cross!
If you do a hymn, sing all the verses each time, or as many as possible, e.g. what is in the hymnal. The M.C., celebrant, and DM should agree on how many verses to stay in place at the front and back (so, at the altar at the recessional and at the b…

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Sprinkling Rite or Penitential Rite on Divine Mercy Sunday of the Jubilee of Mercy?
You can find them on Google. They were beautiful, but because they were additions to the Mass spread by the printing press and contrary to the usage of Rome, they were eliminated in 1570. The Marian tropes in the Gloria were eliminated, and until …

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Sprinkling Rite or Penitential Rite on Divine Mercy Sunday of the Jubilee of Mercy?
I would say follow it. The papal Mass is no longer distinct. Rather certain usages were carried over, e.g. the Greek Gospel.

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LITURGY OF THE HOURS. PSALM PRAYERS CONCLLUSIONs ?
And which are being removed by 2020...

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Sprinkling Rite or Penitential Rite on Divine Mercy Sunday of the Jubilee of Mercy?
This might be clear, but it isn’t followed, and I wouldn’t be annoyed if I had to go to the OF (I rarely do so on Sundays) and the Kyrie was sung after the aspersion. Fr. Kocik also says it can be done before Mass... Vilyanor, I also didn’t mean t…

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Sprinkling Rite or Penitential Rite on Divine Mercy Sunday of the Jubilee of Mercy?
For the Nth time, the missal says it is the 2nd Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday or something thereabouts. In a sense, it is an extraliturgical liturgical addition. Nothing to the liturgy itself was changed (other than the changes in 1969 of th…

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Colloquium Appropriateness
Solfège baby!!!! So yes. Babies are welcome. Teens should be OK.

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Other occasions for singing Jesu Rex Admirabilis?
Holy Cross would be appropriate. That’s kinda close to the next time you might sing it. I think it is appropriate in July, which is the month of the Precious Blood.

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Using actual Latin Hymns at an actual Latin Mass - a taboo few dare to cross!
I think it is preferable, and if the church allows for them to be in front, then the men should sing. But that doesn’t rule out a girls’ or women’s schola. Some chants are better with one voice or the other. Charles, Paul Weber was the DM, so that…

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Using actual Latin Hymns at an actual Latin Mass - a taboo few dare to cross!
I would like a vernacular hymn if we did the Asperges. Being a diocesan parish, the TLM is last, and so we do the Introit instead. At the end, we usually do the Marian anthem, and then we process in silence, to a hymn, or, usually when it is allowed…

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Using actual Latin Hymns at an actual Latin Mass - a taboo few dare to cross!
The trouble is that young trads rightly want Sung or Solemn Mass, and vernacular hymns are contra legem at those liturgies. Latin hymns in time feel weird if the rest is chant. While I want to respect local custom, I have to say the practice I ran…

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Chant Setting of St. Michael Prayer
Ah, in medieval usages, then?

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Chant Setting of St. Michael Prayer
I still have yet to understand why the Marian antiphons are antiphons...

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Chant Setting of St. Michael Prayer
Perhaps someone was regularly using it at Benediction.

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My job posted
I think that in this case the details were already known well-enough for someone to avoid the place. As to job listings, it seems the listing ought to be it. I don’t have a reason, really, just a feeling that it’s a notice which ought to be on its …

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My job posted
She just retired. Will it be better? No. I wish. The clergy of the diocese are also problematic: either they say what keeps them alive with the parish and chancery, they are poorly formed before seminary and in it, or they are left out to dry beca…

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Website: Catholic Devotional Hymns
The Cardinal Vaughn CD is excellent.

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Asperges me - use of the other tones "ad libitum"
You could also sing the Gloria Patri separately in the Sarum fashion.

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Great Catholic choirs on the Internet
At least with what is held by major companies Google does it for you in the case of Youtube.

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Great Catholic choirs on the Internet
The final Mass of our previous pastor at St. Martin’s before his reassignment featured “I was glad.” On Sundays, the anthems follow the proper chants, and they are either English or Latin (Latin only, naturally, at the Missa Cantata in the tradition…

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Liturgical horrors
Spriggo, that’s awful.

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A survey about using the chimes with organ.
Madorganist, I don’t disagree with the legislation, but our organist had chimes which he accidentally used for the Pie Iesu in the Fauré Requiem which was sung as the elevation motet. And it was fabulous, if incorrect. I forget the original reason w…

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Great Catholic choirs on the Internet
I saved the ordo from that day, which I remember so well only because it was a good friend’s birthday. :)

Comment by MatthewRoth February 2016 permalink
Great Catholic choirs on the Internet
MatthewJ, thanks for sharing my home parish’s choir. :) Music123, I distinctly remember it as the Offertory motet for Corpus Christi at St. Martin’s four years ago.

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Liturgical horrors
The only reason he was shocking was because he went so far overboard. For the most part, that part of the diocese of Richmond is a wasteland.

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Liturgical horrors
I can see your PP chuckling at that while simultaneously being horrified. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting him: I never met a priest who went out of his way to say he didn’t recognize me and ask who I was and where I was from. And he was handing out c…

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Does anyone have a copy of the Ruff book, "Sacred Music and Liturgical Reform..."?
You really do need professional editorial review. That is far worse than a small firm publishing it, IMHO. Sometimes the small people come in handy. Would you believe that there is only one comprehensive primary source book of the Reformation for …

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