Simon

What a disappointment `- I had hoped for a magnificent Spanish Rennaaissance mass with full choir of the best singers from Barcelona of music by Morales or one of his other Spanish compatriots . …

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhDqUSAQFbA&t=1075s

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We - the Psalterium Foundation in The Netherlands - recorded the whole Psalter in Gregoriian Chant using the Nova Vulgata from2012-2018.. We even published these psalms and the Antiphons for each ps…

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In Marcel Zijlstra’s article from Tijdschrift voor Gregoriaans (original in Dutch, brought in English by Google translate) you may read how our heroes of early chant were able to chant any text as a…

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It's fairly new music. You always pay. Just seaarch online for printed music. You may be able to listen online via youtube. Composers need income from their work. And their family after their…

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John Tavener's (the younger one) Apolytikion of Saint Nicholas is a nice piece as is Arvo Pärt's Triodion: Ode III: O Holy Saint Nicholas

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Elmar - You are always welcome. We could use a couple of additional voices in our male Schola. .

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Our chant choir - schola Cantorum Amsterdam (SCA) has just completed singing the Matins of All Souls. Due to a conflict with a rehearsal with another choir in our home church- the St. Nicholas Ba…

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A Blessèd Easter to all. Just back from singing Easter Matins,

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We have always sat for the psalms and stand for the geat Responsories in Amsterdam. I've been with the choir since 1979

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@tim-uk: I have a copy of the 1958 edition in very good condition that I am willing to part with. This copy is also signed by the person who wrote the posthumous foreword: A.M.A. Vollaerts pr -brothe…

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For our Psalterium Project we elected to record the Miserere (psalm L) without an antiphon - the only one of all 150 psalms we recorded. All the other psalms had an antiphon whose text came from the …

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Are any forum members singing this magnificent Gregorian Chant respond from the matins of the first sunday in Advent? (The popular iin English Palestrina version does not count). Our choir sings thi…

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I have put theMatinsfor All Souls as recorded live by the Schola Cantorum Amsterdam (SCA) in the St Nicholas Basilica in Amterdam in 2022 on Spotify, iTunes etc. similar sites via CDBaby.

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This is interesting material for those who sing the Spanish Mozarabic/Silos Abbey Lamentations in the coming Holy Week. Not readily accessible to non University scholars and interested lay persons. T…

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This is interesting material for those who sing the Spanish Mozarabic/Silos Abbey Lamentations in the coming Holy Week. Not readily accessible to non University scholars and interested lay persons. …

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The last couple of hundred packages are going for a really big, big discount: Only 35 euros for the whole package to the USA, for example. That includes over 20 euros packaging and mail costs to the…

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Our discussion is in vain.

The highest court of the land's decision will eventually result in more abortions in out of state clinics from adjoining states with a pro-life stance,…

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Just one additional comment on all the above reactions to my intial reaction to the subject. I am reacting mostly to unwantingly impregnated young women.

First comment (and this is s…

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At various times and places, elaborate musical formulas (‘tones’) have been used for sung lessons on solemn liturgical occasions. The best-known are the tones used for the lessons of the first noctur…

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Just a note to communicate that, from May 1 to May 7, 2022 we have - finally after a more than two/three year Covid delay - recorded the office music of St. Gengoux in the Romanesque Église Notre Dam…

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For those in far away places: The postman is very reliable - has always arrived - in Russia, Australia, Brazil, Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Chili, over 150 times in the USA and Canada, and almost al…

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Noted earlier but now (after long Covid delay) up and running.

Saint Gengulphus was a Burgundian knight of Varennes-sur-Amance in the present département of Haut Marne in the Grand Es…

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This discussion has a link back to 2018 on this forum. Hugh Henry based his own transcription of the Mozarabic Lamentations on 3 pdf's that I sent him back in 2014 (and much later posted on thi…

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Here is, hopefully, but probably for some more academic members of the forum, a useful scan of a fairly rare Spanish publication from the 1930s of an edition of Mozarabic Lamentations from four Spani…

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This has never been done! The Psalterium Project has been underway since May 2012. We are going to make it! This will happen! See the progress made on http://www.psalmchant.com .

Mona…

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