MatthewRoth

Lent recessional music
I would do the Marian antiphon with its versicle and collect, which would at least begin to cut down on the idea that this is time to chat.

Comment by MatthewRoth February 17 permalink
Church Documents on Recorded Music
I was gonna say…SponsaChristi tells us that much…

Comment by MatthewRoth February 17 permalink
Lent recessional music
I don’t do one on Palm Sunday but we still do the Marian antiphon. It’s always optional anyway, but it is a good thing especially for congregations that have less to sing due to choral/Latin ordinaries and motets.

Comment by MatthewRoth February 15 permalink
Psalm Tone Cadences - Syllable Rules
Well, for the responsorial psalms though, that’s yet a different translation.

Comment by MatthewRoth February 13 permalink
Psalm Tone Cadences - Syllable Rules
Well Pothier’s commission picked them, not Solesmes, and they are the official tones. The Vatican Edition remains the official one, which is not to say that other Gregorian tones cannot exist alongside them… Also the real problem there seems to be …

Comment by MatthewRoth February 13 permalink
Mass and Vespers
I have used Genius Scan on my iPad with some success.

Comment by MatthewRoth February 13 permalink
Free Lenten Motet: Exaltabo Te, Domine • Richardson
Breves are often used for text sung on the same pitch. The syllables get what is essentially an eighth note, which is too clunky to write out IMHO. You can use other values to represent the syllables where a breve is overkill; this happens sometimes…

Comment by MatthewRoth February 13 permalink
Transcriptions from the Nova Organi Harmonia
I don’t have it at hand, but for tests: Carroll’s chironomy book summarizes the change to rests made by Dom Gajard and how they should be made in function of the following composite pulse and whether it is a full 1-2 or if the first note is silent.

Comment by MatthewRoth February 12 permalink
Psalm Tone Cadences - Syllable Rules
you seem to be asking about the more ornate tone used for the Mass. Anyway I would use the Psalm Tone Tool and adjust it if you wish to sing in English, for which there is a check box. The dropdown menu allows you to change the tone including for t…

Comment by MatthewRoth February 12 permalink
Seasonal Psalm Tones? - Lent, Easter
I think people should just start singing in Latin but I will say that the rules for pointing psalmody are in the antiphonal and the Liber Usualis. Those may be applied with more or less acceptable results in the vernacular. But you seem to be asking…

Comment by MatthewRoth February 12 permalink
Parish Book of Motets, 3-Part - [updated] HERE! from CMAA
The Guerrero and Palestrina titles are backwards. That is, the primi toni is given for Guerrero on the site, but the score says sexti Toni and vice versa. And the Obrecht score is replaced with the Puer Natus (Looking at ATB only in both cases.)

Comment by MatthewRoth February 12 permalink
Seasonal Psalm Tones? - Lent, Easter
The tonus peregrinus is penitential because of its composition and usage by certain composers for falsobordone settings. But it’s regularly used with ps 113 on Sundays (Mondays for the Benedictines) and then in certain offices of feasts with the Ben…

Comment by MatthewRoth February 11 permalink
Wedding Procedure
We have everyone leave. I would prefer that they do the introduction as a married couple (one did the dip and first kiss in the aisle, which led to cheering, which.) and come back in for photos while guests leave and the others clean up.

Comment by MatthewRoth February 10 permalink
Latin pronunciation
I borrowed that observation from you in turn! I wish, like his vowel rearticulation, he had left a bit more in the way of instructions.

Comment by MatthewRoth February 9 permalink
Gentle Reminder to Proofread Your Ash Wednesday Worship Aids
Every Christmas we jail’d th’incarnate Deity.

Comment by MatthewRoth February 8 permalink
Motets for Easter Vigil and Good Friday
We need some context.

Comment by MatthewRoth February 5 permalink
Complete abstention from "alleluia"
Well, it’s completely dropped even when it’s at the end of an antiphon otherwise used outside of Paschal Time with Alleluia, of which there are enough that you find two versions in the office. I Vespers of the Circumcision is a unique example becaus…

Comment by MatthewRoth February 5 permalink
Complete abstention from "alleluia"
There is a Latin text from the Parisian breviary that I found for PICARDY which is an an odd meter but we weren’t in a position to do much more for communion back then.

Comment by MatthewRoth February 5 permalink
SSA Eucharistic motet
href="https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Secunda_anthologia_vocalis_(Oreste_Ravanello)">Ravenello’s a good starting point. Not many general Eucharistic motets are there but you have an Ave Verum plus some things to sing for the Tantum.…

Comment by MatthewRoth February 4 permalink
Complete abstention from "alleluia"
We did All Creatures of Our God and King at the tomb of Saint Francis but they did think of something along the lines of the Lenten gospel acclamations. Also, Byrd’s Surge illuminare in Lent: discuss.

Comment by MatthewRoth February 4 permalink
Latin pronunciation
@Chant_Supremacist ding ding. Hence my point about the wobbly nature that means that transcriptions for a study can be a beast. But Patrick is right, it’s ideally not a diphthong: it’s /e/, the close-mid front unrounded vowel, and I think that the …

Comment by MatthewRoth February 4 permalink
Tips for New Parish Music Directors
I missed the Messiah singalong and early music workshop. I will go next November I think (on the parish dime, I hope lol). Anyway Organization and Planning well ahead in advance is key. While writing this, I have basically every mass planned throug…

Comment by MatthewRoth February 4 permalink
Complete abstention from "alleluia"
Now, to Serviam’s point: the organ tuners did not finish when we had first asked them to finish (enough work, not just the perfection parts) and so they wanted to come back during the Triduum during a time when the church was open to the faithful fo…

Comment by MatthewRoth February 4 permalink
Complete abstention from "alleluia"
I immediately roll my eyes at the people who get scrupulous about it during Lent when we rehearse music for Holy Saturday and beyond, and we practice appropriately. The removal is liturgical, and it may be uttered outside of antiphons and the proper…

Comment by MatthewRoth February 4 permalink
Latin pronunciation
This reminds me that people use diphthong to mean digraph when it refers to vowels that were diphthongs but became /e/ (or some other singular vowel sound) in later forms of Latin and in ecclesiastical Latin. /klɛmɛns/ is what I ask for sometimes v…

Comment by MatthewRoth February 4 permalink
Communion practicalities
I don’t agree. I have not met those people consistently. I think people’s time is valuable and that they already make a sacrifice to come to one Mass and sing.

Comment by MatthewRoth February 3 permalink
Communion practicalities
The problem is that the propers really do belong to Catholics, if not male clerics hewing more closely in their configuration to Christ…and I would very strongly discourage relying on non-Catholics for the propers; I would rather pay talented Cathol…

Comment by MatthewRoth February 2 permalink
Communion practicalities
On Sundays, there is a much larger crowd then during the week (where usually the organist can play anyway); however, this week, we did not have organ, and although we were the very last people to receive right after finishing the psalm and repetitio…

Comment by MatthewRoth February 2 permalink
Publishers announced for new Breviary!
People should stop relying on pages other than the references in their own edition; that’s the only way to pray the preconciliar breviary with any ease, and yet every like-to-like edition (same rubrics, same format) has the same pagination.

Comment by MatthewRoth February 2 permalink
Simple Unison Mass Setting - Holy Thursday
We call it an ordo and so does pretty much everyone tbqh. Ah since again the Novus Ordo does something just thoroughly un-Roman.

Comment by MatthewRoth February 1 permalink

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