JL

Schuetz's Kleine geistliche Konzerte contains some fine solo motets, and is available free at IMSLP. (Bonus: master the C clefs! Get good at figured bass!) It was written during the Thirty Years…

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If you want to go super old-school, the Cole and Lewis Melodia is available online at the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/melodiacomprehen00cole/page/174/mode/2up
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I'm surprised not to see "Lo, He comes with clouds descending" not set to HELMSLEY (which is unison in the 1982 hymnal, but SATB elsewhere--several United Methodist hymnals come to min…

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Oh my. I apologize for coming across as patronizing or talking down to any of my learned colleagues here. That is absolutely not my intention--nor am I trying to chastise anyone for not being suita…

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1. Only just finding out that Juneteenth or Kwanzaa "is a thing" is like only just finding out that, say, St. Peter Canisius is a Doctor of the Church. It's not a reflection on the thi…

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Schuetz's Kleine gestliche Konzerte is an excellent source as well. Dover publishes an affordable edition.

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Always, always, always print the music notation--or point out where it is. (This goes double for the Ordinary.) It's a matter of hospitality, even if not everyone uses it. If I don't kno…

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And from St. Anthony's Orthodox Monastery in Arizona, in English and Greek:

http://www.stanthonysmonastery.org/music/Comm_maj.htm#Comm_maj
http://www.stanthonysmonastery.or…

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Here are some possibilities in English, from the Orthodox Church in America:

https://www.oca.org/liturgics/music-downloads/nativity-of-christ
https://www.oca.org/liturgics/music…

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Here is the link:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k382560p.r=Therese?rk=1008588;4

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The Bibliothèque Nationale in France, on their Gallica website (gallica.bnf.fr), has a scan of musical settings of some of the saint's poetry. (Search under "partitions" which is rathe…

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I could stand to hear more of Rustington.

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It's a stylized R, for "reprise", usually to mark the repeating part of a canon or the petite reprise at the end of a strophe. It also looks a bit like two eyes and a nose, so in grad…

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Many of the (not Catholic) churches where I have worked have combined the leaflet-thingy with the bulletin--liturgy things at the front, announcements at the back. Does anyone here do that? I'…

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symmetrical Queen Anns

In my neck of the woods we know them as Ambrosian 360s.

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I, for one, am delighted to see the demise of the carpeting, which not only wrecks the acoustic but also is hard to clean and not very attractive. The old pews were lovely, but there was a tiny step…

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That makes much more sense. And I would love to have a regular Sunday (or mid-week) Vespers in my neighborhood. :)

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In the U.K. it is common to have Vespers followed by Benediction, during Lent Stations of the Cross followed by Benediction, and in May and October, Rosary followed by Benediction.

It …

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Cram's right up there with Viollet-le-Duc and Pugin.

Even better than Viollet-le-Duc, who revised medieval buildings to fit his idea of how they ought to have looked--a bit like t…

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I have been known to raise a hand in the pew when I crash and burn on a hymn. The folks around me might think it's a little weird, but they're probably freaked out enough by somebody singi…

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"O praise God in His loneliness" as the Offertory anthem.

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In the reading for Evening Prayer, "Be irritators of God as his dear children."

Which, admittedly, children have been known to do.

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