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The Parish Book of English Hymns
a second for http://www.amazon.com/Eucharistic-Hymns-John-Charles-Wesley/dp/1878009559

Comment by tdunbar August 2009 permalink
The Parish Book of English Hymns
My personal preference would be: 104 that folks do sing and another 104 that folks should sing and another 52 hymn settings of psalms..with the three categories interleaved.

Comment by tdunbar August 2009 permalink
The Parish Book of English Hymns
I would hope that every tune for hymns in The Liturgy of the Hours would be included. I recently had someone ask me about that and didn't have a good answer (see: http://thomasgwyndunbar.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/liturgy-of-the-hours-hymns/ com…

Comment by tdunbar August 2009 permalink
Common ground with non-Catholic worship leaders?
very interesting parish in CA: http://www.uscatholic.org/church/2009/07/incoming-missal Saint Edward (http://stedwardcatholic.org/) is in Newark, California (5788 Thornton Ave), a suburb of Fremont, east across the Bay from Palo Alto. The parish ha…

Comment by tdunbar July 2009 permalink
Common ground with non-Catholic worship leaders?
Frogman: "rather disconcerting" was a bit tongue-in-cheek :) At my home parish last night, during Eucharistic Adoration, the teens did various CCM (two Michael J Smith and another which I forget)..worse of both worlds, imo: while I enjo…

Comment by tdunbar July 2009 permalink
Common ground with non-Catholic worship leaders?
Like Dan F., I'm a convert with a Methodist background and found the wide range of hymnals rather disconcerting, both in musical values and in doctrinal basis. While Gregorian chant certainly should have first place in the music of the liturgy…

Comment by tdunbar July 2009 permalink
the proper place of propers
I yield to no man in my appreciation for The Parish Book of Chant..I was assuming that it was in the pew racks already! It's not? Well then, certainly no point in adding the Gregorian Missal; nevertheless, while I'm dreaming, it's the…

Comment by tdunbar July 2009 permalink
the proper place of propers
St. Edward Newark CA has Gregorian Missal in the pews! (found via google search..i've not been there)

Comment by tdunbar July 2009 permalink
the proper place of propers
Where, in the US, can one find a place where the songbook in the pews is The Gregorian Missal?

Comment by tdunbar July 2009 permalink
The Basic Core Of Catholic Hymnody
The hymn Lauda Sion Salvatorem is not in the the Parish Book of Chant nor in The Adoremus Hymnal. It is, however, in the Gregorian Missal.

Comment by tdunbar June 2009 permalink
Chasing after fads
"I know my picture here isn't complete. It doesn't reflect the influence of e.g., country rock on the charismatic movement." so, can I add Billy Joe Shaver to the list?

Comment by tdunbar May 2009 permalink
Messiaen's 100th
"Rumor has it that Bob Dylan, Don Knuth and Mel Gibson have contracted with Pixar and Peter Jackson to produce an animation of Messaien's Transfiguration" :)

Comment by tdunbar December 2008 permalink
Messiaen's 100th
imagine a DVD of La transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ, with CGI enhancement of performance :)

Comment by tdunbar December 2008 permalink
Feedback on a new hymnal please
if the topic were schola hymnals rather than congregation hymnals, I'd suggest: the Church of England’s The New English Hymnal (an updating of the English Hymnal for which Ralph Vaughn Williams was the musical editor) which has, I am somewhat …

Comment by tdunbar November 2008 permalink
Attendance at gregorian masses
some recommended places to visit: I'll say again what I've said many times. Visit St. Agnes in St. Paul, Minnesota, or St. John Cantius in Chicago, or St. John in Stamford, or St. Thomas Aquinas in Palo Alto, among many other great parish…

Comment by tdunbar September 2008 permalink
Ruff on congregational song
One might object, regarding my post, "but you're just talking about lyrics, not music" .. well, perhaps so. The lyrics ARE the music, to a large extent, from my perspective.

Comment by tdunbar July 2008 permalink
Ruff on congregational song
Jeffrey wrote: "Unlike Catholics, they have no dignified and enduring tradition of music that is integral to the rite." While to a large extent ignored in the USA nowadays, the 1780 "Collection of Hymns for the People Called Methodis…

Comment by tdunbar July 2008 permalink
Introducing The Parish Book of Chant
The Parish Book of Chant is made for use: from the glossy cover that repells dirt to a size convenient to hold which will also lay flat. The text to be sung is in clear, good size type -- 12pt Palantino, I'd guess, with translations in smaller …

Comment by tdunbar June 2008 permalink
St. Michael's Hymnal
Were a parish to have and use PBC in its pews, it would be more 21st century than 9th century by any objective measure, I suggest, if we're talking about real parishes rather than idealizations.

Comment by tdunbar May 2008 permalink
Sanctus & orthodox Jewish liturgy
In The Sacred Bridge (chapter 5), Eric Werner argues that sanctus XVIII has connections back to 2nd century Jewish liturgy..all very speculative, however.

Comment by tdunbar April 2008 permalink
Washington Post Mentions CMAA
And there's a posting about that article at Amy Welborn's blog, which also refers to the upcoming Parish Book of Chant.

Comment by tdunbar April 2008 permalink
Chant accompaniment for total neophytes
woodwinds?

Comment by tdunbar April 2008 permalink
How does the EF (1962) differ from the Mass of the 1950's?
btw, The English Hymnal's musical editor was Ralph Vaughn Williams

Comment by tdunbar April 2008 permalink
Introducing The Parish Book of Chant
Re the anglican English Hymnal: http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/2008/03/office-hymns.html The EH has, for example: 317 Laud O Zion thy salvation Thomas Aquinas tr/ad by The English Hymnal 326 Of the glorious Body telling O my tongue Th…

Comment by tdunbar April 2008 permalink
Liturgical Singing vs. "Sung Prayer"
Perhaps, in some settings anyway, it might be more useful for a schola to be a "new evangelization" group rather than a parish choir?

Comment by tdunbar April 2008 permalink
Introducing The Parish Book of Chant
Wonderful news (about the bulk preorders)! Thanks, Jeffrey. To celebrate, and with thanks to Mary Jane Ballou for encouragement, there's a new schola starting up in Radford, Virginia: Novum Flumen (yes, there's some reason behind the ecce…

Comment by tdunbar April 2008 permalink
Liturgical Singing vs. "Sung Prayer"
Some of the criticisms of praise bands I read here sound like hearsay. At any rate, in the setting they're meant for, they make very good use of resources..a good sound system, four skilled musicians with an empathetic leader can be very effect…

Comment by tdunbar April 2008 permalink
Parish catechesis: Gloria
Gavin, I appreciated your point about expressing joy rather than creating joy. Along those lines, it seems to me to also be the case that when the music tries to create emotion, the result is that a narrower range of emotion is expressed in the litu…

Comment by tdunbar April 2008 permalink
Introducing The Parish Book of Chant
"200 or 300" The "critical mass" should, I think, be 120 based on Act2 and 2Chr5:12 :)

Comment by tdunbar April 2008 permalink
Introducing The Parish Book of Chant
Looks to be a beautiful and timely book that will be just right for many parishes, I hope. I guess it's too early to pre-order from somewhere?

Comment by tdunbar April 2008 permalink

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