Liam

How long would it last? Does anyone have the guts? Announcing the Entrance Hymn.
JennyH: Of course facts can part of a polemical statement, depending on how they are wielded. Jeffrey: http://www.ccwatershed.org/media/pdfs/12/03/05/11-06-24_0.pdf

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What funny things have you heard at Mass? (Updated Title)
Jew-der, for Judah (but that's priests, and this is Boston, where the thrifty Yankee Law of Conservation of Rs obtains - dropped from where they belong and placed at the end of other words). The names of the three children in Daniel is always…

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How long would it last? Does anyone have the guts? Announcing the Entrance Hymn.
No, because that turns an incidental invitation into a polemical moment that itself is even less proper to the Mass. It would, however, be a great way to give promoters of propers a reputation for snark, not something I would recommend.

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What pray tell, determines if a song is uplifting?
Emotionalism about music at Mass long preceded Vatican II; the previous two generations inherited it. It was not parthenogenesis.

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Improving Congregational Singing
The OP said that the norm there is that microphones are only used for solo singing.

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Improving Congregational Singing
I would only caution that, for many Catholic congregations, the idea of the organ as leader is equivocal. I fully agree that the cantor and priest should not lead congregational singing with their own overly audible singing. But I would say it is mu…

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Improving Congregational Singing
Ah, but is the programming of these hymns what has obtained for years before the organ, or is it of relatively recent vintage (the past year or three)?

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Improving Congregational Singing
This is the space, right?: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GqWV8b5dke0/TNDygnHpV5I/AAAAAAAAETw/TJMlFRt9C0c/s1600/PB020090+x+rszd+900.jpg If the priest sings hymns (as opposed to his part of the dialogues), it should be with his body microphone OFF....

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Improving Congregational Singing
How about trying no organ? (Don't faint; it can work fine - I used to program music for Masses where all accompanists were out, and it worked fine so long as we chose sturdy tunes.) As a presumptive rule, the best tunes for congregational singi…

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Hiring ringers for an all-volunteer choir
How did you tell choir? It sounds like you didn't (it sounds like they "got word" rather than hearing this during a rehearsal before you did it). I would say that I would have advised the choir first, because this is not an unusual pr…

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How to find new choir members....and directors.
I think of the parish where I grew up on suburban Long Island: no church, just a school auditorium (because it was much more important to build a school than to build a church due to the decree of the Council of Baltimore...), and a little Hammond e…

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Correlation of old and new calendars
Yes, the emphasis in the new calendar is on the 50-day-ness of Eastertide.

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Giving a Congregation Neumes?
Yes, but that happened in a culture of orality rather than literacy. People in our culture would have a hard time remembering a Homeric epic by heart the way people in oral cultures would. The advent of literacy and the expectations created by it re…

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Litany of Saint at Confirmation?
It's not specified for the rite. A "suitable song" may be sung during the conferral of the sacrament, but one needs to consider as a practical matter whether the song would interfere with the dialogues between the bishop and confirman…

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Getting bishop's permission
There is no specified procedure for approval.

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Correlation of old and new calendars
Rogation Sunday would be this coming Sunday, the Sunday *before* Ascension, with Rogationtide following on the intervening three days.

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"The Catholic Hymnal"

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Giving a Congregation Neumes?
For that kind of crowd, the neumes will probably be OK. To step back to the more general question, for congregations in general: It can be more of a problem for the musically literate than the musically illiterate. You have to know your congregati…

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Hymns, Psalms, and Spiritual Canticles
But out of print does not make it public domain. Just sayin'

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Hymns, Psalms, and Spiritual Canticles
Jenny I was talking about the book as a whole. The parts that use public domain texts and tunes are, as with any hymnal, public domain, but there is an awful lot (accompaniments/harmonies for most of the service work and almost all of the psalter, …

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Hymns, Psalms, and Spiritual Canticles
It's not public domain.

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Let us welcome the celebrant as we join in singing our entrance hymn
Any mitres made of cheese?

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Hymns, Psalms, and Spiritual Canticles
That is a segment from the second edition (1983).

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Hymns, Psalms, and Spiritual Canticles
It's not entirely typeset, if that's what you mean. The 1983 edition was engraved and photographed, et cet.

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Hymns, Psalms, and Spiritual Canticles
Just note: I doubt there is a PDF of the *first* edition requested, from the 1970s. I actually have the choir/organ copy of that, which I purchased used, as it's part of my collection of Ted Marier hymnals (including Cantus Populi and the Pius …

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Pie Jesu
Another approach is to ask where the catafalque will go in the entrance procession. (The pall only comes in white or black; sorry, no pastel shades to complement the bridesmaids, but if they want to hold candles next to it, that's fine by us.)

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Metrical Psalm settings
Gavin In a metrical index of tunes, at least for some hymnals, you will find "Irregular" tunes.... All that I am saying is that the text Joncas employs is set to metered measures, even if the syllabic subdivisions shift somewhat from ver…

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Metrical Psalm settings
Mark That's a good path. I generally believe that funerals are best handled by engaging in consultation (that might be the priest or it might be the music director) and offering a menu that has been approved for the parish (as a white list, in…

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Metrical Psalm settings
The meter would be "Irregular" - and that's not a contrivance, but how a text that fits a repetitive melodic pattern with irregular rhythm would typically be categorized. It's not blank versification, as it were. (Just to be cle…

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Metrical Psalm settings
Did you ask your diocesan office for worship? Now, it should be noted that, for the scrupulous, the GIRM doesn't actually specify the manner of approval by the diocesan bishop; it doesn't state, for example, that the approval has to come …

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