chonak

I sympathize, Matthew. I've had a couple of tax-related jobs, and I would still rather use software (from my local office-supply store) to prepare my returns than do it manually.

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Can you tell us a little about where you found this?

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For what it's worth, there is an incidental benefit from having *some* 1099 contractor income inasmuch as relevant expenses can be deducted: e.g., for a home instrument, educational events, trav…

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Here's a score.

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Probably!

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Mass IV could be suitable:
sample recordings here (scroll down the page)

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If the choir member happens to be a lady, she may take an interest in the Polyhymnia Catholic Women's Choir, directed by our friend Nori Fahrig.

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Singers outside North America now have an easier way to buy CMAA's The Parish Book of Chant, as the book is becoming available through Amazon's print-on-demand service. We hope this will b…

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Liam asked the apt question:
"So, for parishes that have found the offerings of major commercial publishers to be lacking in quality, would the USCCB staff prefer that the Ordinary and th…

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Maybe it would be useful to go through some of the sight-reading exercises in this book, which we offer for download
https://media.churchmusicassociation.org/books/cours-elementaire-et-pratiq…

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Secrecy in hiring church musicians feeds suspicion.

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@bhcordova, just to clarify: was that $150 once for each year in the 3-year cycle [peace be upon it]?

Or $150 a year, every year, until you stop publishing your musical settings of the…

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Issue 152 no. 2 of CMAA's journal, "Sacred Music", is on-line now. Access requires a login on the member portal:

https://connect.churchmusicassociation.org/general/cus…

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The resource list on the main CMAA site
https://churchmusicassociation.org/resources/resource-list-complete/

has these two items:

Psalm-tone propers by Rev. Carlo…

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I've put the corrected link into his post; thanks.

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Besides adding space between the scores, you'd want to have each new score start with a large initial letter and an indication of the mode. As far as I know, changing modes isn't possible …

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If I understand right, the fourth edition is no longer reprinted because the copyright holder for some of the hymns is not willing to grant permission to reprint all the hymns they authorized previou…

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Abbot Marc Crilly of St. Benedict Abbey in Still River, Massachusetts, sent us some news:

Announcing the 2025 New England Sacred Music Workshop!

New England Sacred Musi…

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Yes, that's the same copyright registration info I found on the Copyright Office website; and the renewal in 1973 looks similar, so, as far as I can tell, they only asserted a claim for the arra…

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Is there a real need to put all of that in one book?

By the way, we do offer it as a download:
https://media.churchmusicassociation.org/books/massandvespers.pdf

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Congratulations to Dr. Ann Labounsky, longtime professor of organ, and a frequent performer and instructor at the CMAA Sacred Music Colloquium, on her retirement from Duquesne University.

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Any material in the 1915 edition would be in the public domain.

The copyright filing for the new edition in 1945 was made in 1946, and appears to cover only the new material in the a…

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Thanks for the question, @Chant_Supremacist.

I do close the job announcements to comments in order to encourage employers to post here, even those who might not be in sync with all t…

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See also the compositions posted in the "New Compositions" category here on the forum; often they are polyphonic.

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You can use my web interface for gregorio without a constant internet connection:
http://run.gregoriochant.org/
(this URL replaces the former site name at gabrielmass.com)

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I understand why someone might want a second line of text in there: there are clergymen who get a rash when they see a phrase of Latin without an English translation right next to it. But as you can…

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Peter, it's frustrating to see such great content printed in engraving that is merely functional and not attractive.

When will Fr. Weber give up doing everything with Meinrad font…

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