Gamba

https://media.churchmusicassociation.org/books/7848318-Psallite-Sapienter-A-Musicians-Guide-to-the-Extraordinary-Form.pdf

https://musicasacra.com/2008/05/psallite-sapienter/

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Look at the websites of the various UK cathedrals and colleges. They will often have a lengthy PDF of “information for visiting choirs” (such as frequently come through for residencies, special evens…

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Depends on the acoustic. The same organ can call people to prayer in a very live room, or to polka in a dry one.

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I feel it's a bit of a shame that nowhere (as far as I know) gives the introit a really full treatment as an entrance in the NO, though I understand it's not "participatory" and t…

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Depends on the context. If it’s a conducted group that can sensitively deliver the text with nuance and expression, I don’t think any dress-up is necessary. Gedeckt and dulciana, and play behind the …

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The acoustic probably enters into the question, too. Many brothers in choir in a reverberant and mostly-empty Abbey church can “ring” it singing gently in head voice on a C, but chesting on a G would…

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C.V. Stanford, “Prelude on the Easter Hymn”.

(Which Easter hymn? The Easter hymn in the Anglosphere – Jesus Christ is risen today.)

https://ks15.imslp.org/files/imglnks/…

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@RomanticStrings Pp. Benedict’s newly-composed-for-only-the-EF Good Friday prayer for the Jewish people comes to mind

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Sounds like your church doesn’t actually have a DoM, but rather an à la carte choir director, who is just one of many equal musicians tasked with providing music for a particular weekend Mass. A DoM …

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OF.

Organ/cantor Masses, we help each other out. Organ plays while cantor communes, then the cantor sings the antiphon/psalm while organist communes. In Lent, cantor begins straightaw…

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I beg to disagree with SponsaChristi. Any trumpet player worth hiring is very, very used to transposing at sight. For a trumpeter, playing a part notated for “trumpet in D” on a C or B-flat horn is a…

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Corliss Arnold’s Organ Literature is getting dated, but is still a good top-level overview of rep and organ building. Maybe 450 pages if I remember correctly.

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I agree with Benton. People are more inclined to sing when there’s a lot of sound and they can join in, rather than stand out. Even the shyest people will sing along lustily at sporting events and ro…

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I am supposing “doing the incipit” in this thread is referring to singing the opening melodic formula of the psalm tone when starting psalm #2, rather than beginning psalm #2 directly on the reciting…

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The psalms from the 1979 BCP. It is from the RSV (which is approved for Catholics to read and study),literal, and sings very well. It is modern-language, but has not been tinkered with to eliminate g…

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Wow. This is amazing; bravo. So much good going on at your place.

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My question is: priests and search committees, since it's clear you're not looking for good experience and training, what are you looking for? If experience and training doesn't matter…

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