OMagnumMysterium

Yes, thank you Tomjaw. I should have specified, all twenty one verses that we will sing, not all the verses of the hymn! I had been using your PDF of the chant (Gueranger's text) as a reference,…

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The conclusion that I reached in my study is that the music of the Salve Festa Dies follows the rhythm/meter/durations of the text when read according to the classical Latin syllable quantities. The …

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The NOH has some melodic variations. The Solesmes publication set their variant as "the" melodic version, for many of us at least (I discovered a different variant from Mr. Christoph Dalitz…

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Francis, here are the recordings you asked for. The notation I use isn't meant to convey nuances (unless perhaps the grace notes and qualismas could be considered nuances). The idea is that a st…

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Francis, I beg your pardon, I've been feeling under the weather, and I lost my voice Thursday. Once I'm feeling better I can give a good answer to all your questions and I'll be able t…

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Francis, here is what I use. The square is long and the diamond is short (breve and semi-breve, if you want to call them that). The rectangle is a double long, and the tiny notes are grace notes, whi…

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Perhaps "God of Mercy and Compassion"?

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Francis, I definitely agree with you about the need to return to more beautiful engraving for our music books. A balance between practicality and beauty is quick important. I usually opt to put the a…

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I do not use it if I can help it, in everyday life or otherwise (from after first Vespers of Septuagesima until Easter Vigil). When we are rehearsing Easter music, I do sing it, out of obedience to t…

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Asking both for myself and for a friend:

Does anyone know of good quick reference sheets for organ registration guidelines that could easily be printed out and put in a three ring bind…

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Early last year I composed a setting of the Ave Maria as a little devotional project. It turned out interesting; not exactly the usual style that I come up with, and at first I didn't like it, s…

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We do the Mass at dawn, although later than 6:00am (the sun doesn't rise that early here in December). So midnight Mass (at midnight, of course), Mass at dawn around 7 or 8, and Christmas day Ma…

Thanked by 2tomjaw MatthewRoth
I agree, they really don't need to be. The English and other Missal bits are a nice touch to the simple contents of the Liber Brevior, but yes, two books makes more sense. I'd also say perh…

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Our schola director has bought the book shown on that website, so I can attest that it really exists in print. The website he linked me to is

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Charles, thanks for the kind words!

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I've composed a setting of the Saint Michael the Archangel prayer (Sancte Michael). Anyone who would like to use it is free to do so. I'd also be happy to get feedback so I can improve the …

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Thanks, Tomjaw. One small correction: the sequence has an "I" for mode one, but the chant ends on Do. It should be mode six I think.

Although these sequences often have a ver…

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Happy Feast of St. Philomena!

I've set the hymn "Astra Quae Terram" to a different tune of Virginis Proles, which I find very catchy, and fitting to the hymn (notice the…

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Thanks, all.

It's nice to know that our good old friend Dom Pothier cobbled this one together himself. Matthew, I certainly have mixed feelings about his setting as well. I actual…

Thanked by 2igneus MatthewRoth
We do tenebrae just with low electric lights, and the ceremonial candles in the sanctuary. We do Rorate and Christmas Midnight actually by candlelight. It is entirely possible to sing a candlelit onl…

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This chant is a pretty simple one to print. I've done a quick arrange of the version from my Compline book, you could print out two per sheet of paper this way. If this particular arrangement do…

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I've not used their arrangements for singing personally, but they make very nice music, Mother Abbess Cecilia's arrangements are quite beautiful, and I would highly recommend. Many of the p…

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We'll be singing for a Baptism, Confirmation, and Mass with first Communion this Saturday (Sabbato in Albis). This is the third year in a row that we've done this for someone on Easter Satu…

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I found it extremely ironic that Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, because although I wasn't able to make it to Easter Monday Mass this year, I still remember one of that propers (from the tra…

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@M. Jackson Osborn
I didn't mean an opera singer singing chant as opera, or with opera technique. I meant that someone who had already learned one style of singing could learn chant as we…

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Respectfully (and I really do mean to be respectful).

I can (and do) doubt the liturgical value of Mozart's work. I consider his music to be moderately good (but not the absolute …

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