Liam

What is the best Thanksgiving hymn?
. . . except for the Magnificat.

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motet/anthem for christian unity service
But the OP said not Latin given the Latin already programmed....

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motet/anthem for christian unity service
Tallis' If Ye Love Me, which I would think would be familiar to choristers whose churches use anthems in worship. The Baptism of the Lord having preceded this, you're in the wake of the Spirit time that follows on the heels of Christmastid…

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Congregational Singing
Well, by that time the Victrola had made phonographs/gramophones a middle class mass market consumption item in the USA (also, movies with live accompaniment became a feature of mass culture). Radios would follow in the next decade. The point bein…

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Hymn Tunes That Are Used Too Often
So, is the solution for congregational texts ... fewer texts? Because while we musicians may favor more tunes, the appetite in the Catholic pews for such is not necessarily similar. Oh, that's right, they should just let propers be sung instead…

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Hymn Tunes That Are Used Too Often
Well, there's always the cheap church parlor trick of playing it through completely in a modal minor before singing to spice things up. Watch heads explode.

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Christmas Recessional
Of course, It Came Upon The Midnight Clear is sufficiently mid-19th century Boston Unitarian* that Jesus not mentioned by name or title. (Presumably, the reference to King is just to God simply understood, shall we say.) * https://www.uuworld.org/a…

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Christmas Recessional
There is a very different ANTIOCH, in L.M., btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cHyS4nDZqM https://twitter.com/luzeng/status/639304908542377984 And here's the Southern Harmony's approach to the Handelesque ANTIOCH C.M. tune: http://th…

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Christmas Recessional
I don't think of The First Nowell for the beginning of the Christmas season, but more for Epiphany. I think of Angels We Have Heard on High as more appropriate (and Kathlick) for a recessional on Christmas itself - it captures the going-forth-t…

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An Ideal Office
Tercely Sexting None.

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How to argue organ over piano
Which must be how Catholics got this two generations after Trent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GYjNj75MFI

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Catholic Encyclopedia
I've long wondered whether the translation of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia to the Internet via New Advent a generation ago was an inspiration for the translation to the Internet several years later of the famous 11th edition of the Encycloped…

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Musicians in the priesthood
Consider the curé of L'église de la Madeleine in Paris, who rebuked Gabriel Fauré in the sacristy after the premiere of the latter's setting of the Requiem Mass in said church: "Voyons, monsieur Fauré, nous n'avons pas besoin de …

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OLGS Sings Solemn Vespers at Lincoln Cathedral
A wee bit different than this humble space: https://tinyurl.com/r9yjn6y PS: It's a panosphere from the crossing of the east transept (there are two transepts, altogether English in that regard, with another at the crossing between the nave and…

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How to pronounce Bethlehem in Adeste Fideles?
Imagining a chorus of Patsy Cline wannabees singing chant and polyphony. ...each individually mic'd.

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How to pronounce Bethlehem in Adeste Fideles?
Salieri That reminds me of the arrangement from a generation ago by the inimitable Joel Cohen and the Boston Camerata: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5rwe5p0k5k

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Roman Missal 1965 ...
IIRC, there was no typical altar edition as such. The next typical edition to follow the 1962 Roman Missal was the first typical edition of the conciliar form of Roman Missal in 1970, followed by the 2nd and 3rd typical editions thereof. There were…

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Wedding music amusement
#3 is the appropriate time to be suddenly inspired to sing an "Aaah/Ooo" verse instead of mere words because you're just so moved in the moment by the sublimity of the pure music. Offering true artistry to the couple. Like Bach improv…

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Sad news, grief, and a hymn
Memory eternal. And comfort and strength to you and your family and all of his loved ones.

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Collapse of Christianity in America
And even he had abandoned Jesus after his arrest in the garden, although a lot of people seem to be unaware of that. All the disciples deserted Jesus according to the Matthean and Markan accounts; the Lucan account instead has only Peter following J…

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Geocentrism and Young Earth Creationism among TLM Traditionalist Catholics?
When quoting, it's good to make it clear one is quoting, and whence.

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English chant for the invitation “Let us pray”
It may be a solemn vs simple tone issue. Also, there was an insistence on mirroring the Latin original. FWIW, on an entirely personal note in terms of subjective experience of the vernacular OF Ordo being chanted, for "Let us pray" that …

Comment by Liam October 2019 permalink
Collapse of Christianity in America
The Pope doesn't have immediate jurisdiction over most priests. One of the key features of Roman law is the concept of jurisdiction and how authority is tethered to it (it featured, for example, even in the Passion of our Lord, in the three-way…

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Collapse of Christianity in America
So-called Patriarch Elijah carries a lot of baggage vis-a-vis the Catholic Church from before the time of Pope Francis and has zero jurisdiction that is recognized by the Catholic Church. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Orthodox_Greek_Catho…

Comment by Liam October 2019 permalink
I had a thought ("Worthy is the Lamb" for Christ the King)
One *could* do it as a prelude. But at the risk of making everything else that follows seem smaller, as it were. (It will still seem strange to *precede* the Mass with such a musically emphatic final Amen.) If the rest of the Mass is being offered i…

Comment by Liam October 2019 permalink
I had a thought ("Worthy is the Lamb" for Christ the King)
Putting aside the translation, at 7.5 minutes it's really long (I assume you'd do the Amen, of course; would be passing strange not to) for a recessional, so I'd say no. A choral postlude at most. Also too long (for entrance) or overw…

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Another new Mass setting :-)
I prefer the pronunciation do dar. As in Camptown Races.

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Advent Eucharist hymn
If you remember the context, the Magnificat is always a suitable canticle when the Communion propers are not being used (a canticle of witness, praise and gratitude after receiving the Lord; it's a category error to consider it solely as a Mari…

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St. Ambrose's Hymn to St. Agnes
"No reputable 20th or 21st century hymn writer uses such language." Of course, "reputable" is not a self-evident qualifier, but I would note for the record that "thee" in particular ("thou" less so) happens t…

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Consecutive 5ths: Am I being too picky?
It would be perfectly authentic to have a fifth of gin and supertonic for bondage and subdomination (church musicians in bondage sing amen to subdomination). Just don't be deceptive and substitute vodka for gin.

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