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You can find propers for an enormous number of saints' days in the various volumes of Paleographie Musicale, which is in every music library worth its salt (but of course the number of music lib…

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Immaculate Conception, Cleveland (downtown)

prelude: Gregorio Strozzi, Ricercata Terza
short processional: improvisation on Justus ut palma
ordinary: Obrecht, Missa Je ne…

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Personally, I use the numbers for the church modes - Mode I, Mode II, etc. It doesn't really make much sense to use the Greek names for something that's different from what they meant (alt…

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Immaculate Conception, Cleveland, OH

TLM on Thursday, May 5
(Gregorian propers as always)
Credo III
(polyphony all a 3:)
Ordinary: Jacob Obrecht. Je me sera…

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As for polyphony, we sang Guerrero's Missa Inter vestibulum with Credo IV. The Offertory motet was the Palestrina Jesu Rex admirabilis (I wrote out a version with all the verses and we did them…

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I am coming in late so this comment refers to some of the earlier messages in this thread talking about what sounds mournful and minor, or joyful and major - if you look at medieval and Renaissance m…

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Immaculate Conception, Cleveland, Ohio

Propers and chants for the imposition of ashes out of the Liber
We only had three singers so we did a chant mass (XIV) but polyphonic mote…

Thanked by 1Jeffrey Quick
This is what we did at Immaculate Conception in Cleveland:

for the procession, Lumen ad revelationem and the antiphons from the Liber (horrible weather here, so there weren't as m…

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As a general rule, the earlier you go, the more polyphony is for men's voices (for a lot of reasons which needn't be gone into here). Coming to mind immediately are a couple of Ave Marias …

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I think one of the best sources ever for liturgical organ music - mostly early and much of it not technically challenging (although making it come alive does require some thought and work), is the Co…

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No one has mentioned Marcel Dupre's book on chant accompaniment. The French have a very long tradition of doing this. Remember the old saying about the fact that it's better to teach a pe…

Thanked by 3expeditus1 JulieColl Earl_Grey
I nominate both the motet and mass O magnum mysterium (mostly 4-part but there is a 5th voice in the Agnus). Also, no one has mentioned a stunningly beautiful motet that is appropriate at any mass -…

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What "end of the choir season"? We go all year round. If you stop in the summer you miss a lot of wonderful music, at least in the Tridentine liturgy.

Thanked by 7Jeffrey Quick Salieri JulieColl canadash CHGiffen chonak miacoyne
Of course I wasn't there, but why would you have to face the schola? They would more likely be beside you, or around you, just as they are today in our 1873 choir loft
The old Felgemache…

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Thank you, Samuel Dorlaque. Singing and playing the organ at the same time (while directing a schola) has been a requirement for a well-educated music director for centuries. If I hadn't somehow…

Thanked by 2Richard Mix kevinf
I think we all need to lighten up a bit and look at the music first. It isn't necessary to infringe on the hard and fast rubrics or do anything uncanonical to make these masses work.

Thanked by 2 E_A_Fulhorst Jeffrey Quick
Also remember in quoting older sources of information or good practice, that in 1961 (or 1861, 1761, etc.) they had large numbers not only of clergy (so, for example the rules about how many masses a…

Thanked by 2ClemensRomanus CHGiffen
We do not use the organ during either Advent or Lent and I am sure there other traditional masses where this is not done either. There are plenty of chant pieces and also short polyphonic pieces tha…

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We have two filing cabinets of masses (and really need a third to start on). These are by composer, with the anonymous ones at the beginning, and individual mass parts not part of cyclical masses pr…

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We often do the Stefano Bernardi Missa 'Il bianco e dolce cigno.' This is a four-part polyphonic mass, with mass parts that are not too long. It has moderate ranges, so anybody can sing i…

Thanked by 1Patricia Cecilia
Sorry, this is a day late and a dollar short, but maybe it could be useful for next year... One of my favorites for a postlude is Gerald Near's setting of Ave colenda Trinitas. We sang the cha…

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This new missal will be wonderful, but I am wondering what hymns people would be singing at a Tridentine high mass. Aren't hymns in the traditional liturgy for use during the office? For mass,…

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This new missal will be wonderful, but I am wondering what hymns people would be singing at a Tridentine high mass. Aren't hymns in the traditional liturgy for use during the office? For mass,…

Thanked by 1Ragueneau
Holger Peter Sandhofe was the editor of the newest edition of the Nocturnale, although he died before it was published. It is available from Hartker Verlag in Germany. I don't have my Nocturna…

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