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- Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:03 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Virtual Choir Software - MixPad
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1380
Re: Virtual Choir Software - MixPad
What is the difference between MixPad and Audacity? Does MixPad do something more than Audacity? Is it more user-friendly? Definitely more musician-friendly, to my eye. It's easy in MixPad to display bars and beats rather than a raw time scale, has tools for, e.g., pitch correction, and handles mid...
- Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:01 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Virtual Choir Software - MixPad
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1380
Virtual Choir Software - MixPad
If you were at the Virtual Choirs workshop last week, you know that neither I (a Mac user) nor any of the Windows experts who were present had any particularly appealing suggestions for a free Windows-compatible alternative to Mac tools for music production such as GarageBand. I'm happy to say that ...
- Mon Jul 13, 2020 9:39 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Seed Scattered and Sown
- Replies: 1
- Views: 888
Seed Scattered and Sown
From another thread long ago: I looked at this list and thought "Who is Dan Feiton?!" It turns out that Dan Feiten (correct spelling) wrote only one song that has lasted, Seed, Scattered and Sown , a fairly folksy offering (1987) which I remember from some American hymnals of bygone years but whose ...
- Fri Oct 11, 2019 9:09 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Help identifying a psalm setting
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3750
Re: Help identifying a psalm setting
Dom Gregory Murray. Also in the New English Hymnal, number 537.
- Thu Oct 03, 2019 10:49 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: St Chad's, Birmingham
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2372
Re: St Chad's, Birmingham
A lot of credit to the excellent organist (Nigel Morris?) too; a magnificent voluntary at the end which I think was an improvisation of 'O God our help in ages past' (the recessional hymn) I wonder if he played the (misnamed) 'St Anne' Fugue by Bach? It's what Anthony usually played when we sang O ...
- Thu Jun 27, 2019 11:35 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Learning the organ
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11672
Re: Learning the organ
Here's a nice version of it; the same arrangement (and about the same tempo, I think!) that we sang in Salford.
- Wed Jun 26, 2019 9:44 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Learning the organ
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11672
Re: Learning the organ
VML, I'm blushing. 

- Wed Jun 26, 2019 9:43 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Learning the organ
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11672
Re: Learning the organ
Thanks pdsfd, those are heart-warming things to hear. :) I wonder if your experience counts as good evidence in support of putting the 'dots' on the people's sheet week in week out? A regular attender at the Cathedral would end up being able to read music whether they liked it or not. :) As for the ...
- Wed May 15, 2019 1:17 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Easter Vigil - when did you start and finish?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 25909
- Wed May 15, 2019 1:13 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Westminster Cathedral choir
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4302
Re: Westminster Cathedral choir
It looks as though this is an attempt to fix falling numbers: since not many parents want their seven-year olds to board full time, the change is aimed at widening access to the choir rather than restricting it. I sympathise with the predicament - any kind of change will meet with resistance, and in...
- Fri Mar 01, 2019 11:54 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: One License takes over from Calamus
- Replies: 29
- Views: 21937
- Fri Mar 01, 2019 11:54 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: One License takes over from Calamus
- Replies: 29
- Views: 21937
Re: One License takes over from Calamus
The fee needs to be viewed in perspective. Yes, it is trebling. But it's still very low - about £3 per week in the case quoted. Actually I don't think it is trebling. I think Nick was looking at the US rates, in dollars and then mentally converting to pounds (Baty, pers. comm. :) ) If you go here a...
- Wed Feb 06, 2019 2:12 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Pronunciation
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9790
- Tue Feb 05, 2019 4:00 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Pronunciation
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9790
Re: Pronunciation
A priest leading a retreat I was on (think it was 1983!) pronounced it em-mouse (ok, /eˈmaʊs/
). He'd just come back from a sabbatical in the US, so maybe he caught it there.

- Mon Jan 14, 2019 4:20 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Pronunciation
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9790