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- Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:34 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Laetare or mothering!!?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5916
Re: Laetare or mothering!!?
The reality of children from Catholic schools lacking in the tradition of attending Mass in their parish is a big problem. There is a sense of community within school that becomes fragmented as soon as you try to transfer things from school to parish. I am faced with that difficulty tonight when the ...
- Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:04 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Music & Liturgy, volume 33 number 3
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2969
Sound Reflections
Well, I read Paul Inwood's article about the use of instruments days before hearing Sunday Worship on Radio 4 this Sunday (28th October) Listen here Take the first hymn in this broadcast (around 4 minutes into the clip) - Immortal Invisible - an unglorious mix of all the instruments available with ...
- Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:36 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Preparing the Liturgy, volume 33 number 3
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1982
- Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:37 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: A question of image
- Replies: 24
- Views: 21492
Chant and Pray was good for me and good for the SSG. Westminster Cathedral is overtly upholding the tradition of chant as the sung prayer of the Church. SSG members, and many others, went to the Cathedral on Saturday to learn how this chant the prayer of the Church. I do not believe that SSG came ...
- Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:09 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: seeking a genre
- Replies: 33
- Views: 16289
I don't think there's a satisfactory answer to the original question because new music keeps drawing from older styles. Composers' Group often brings us pieces influenced by many different earlier forms (as described in the regular M&L report). Nor do different generations do not adhere consistently ...
- Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:46 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: advice from pianists please...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4300
If you can accompany somewhere where the singing is robust, that will help you greatly. There is nothing more nerve racking than playing piano to sparse singing. The hardest bit is always the introduction - keep it simple. (Nazard - if you can get past the introduction of Christ Triumphant, it's OK ...
- Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:37 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Oops and the Sanctus
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10808
Assembly participation
I will tell you of my recent experience of a mass in my parish. First, please read page 2 of the thread "in quires and places" held in late 2004. I have long been told of the teachings of the Church's documents that form the basis of the model of singing used in our parish. I have a very small part ...
- Tue May 29, 2007 6:22 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: O Sacrum Convivium
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3949
- Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:14 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Change in the parishes?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11577
- Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:31 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Theology of Music
- Replies: 32
- Views: 21364
After all, the difference between a fine and a mediocre composition often lies not so much in the quality of the basic musical ideas, but in the techniques by which they are presented. Part of me agrees and another part of me disagrees with this statement. I think there must be an intrinsic quality ...
- Wed Mar 14, 2007 3:25 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Water of new birth
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3619
I think that's one of the secrets of good writing- make the tune one that people think they already know, even if they don't.
Funny you should say that -see here
I wish people were more ready to wake up to the fresh and new.
Dot
- Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:06 am
- Forum: Sounds Off
- Topic: Tips for composing and arranging music
- Replies: 37
- Views: 117517
Where does the tune come from?
Prompted to this by the St Patrick's thread, but felt it more appropriate as a possible tip for composers. Our use of folk tunes for hymns and liturgical music is long established by the likes of Vaughan Williams and John Bell, to give just two examples. Perhaps the tradition fades as one seeks to ...
- Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:45 pm
- Forum: Sounds Off
- Topic: Tips for composing and arranging music
- Replies: 37
- Views: 117517
Here's a tip I've probably mentioned before: GO TO A COMPOSERS' GROUP MEETING! Yesterday, five of us met at Salford. I have returned not only with a happy memory of time spent with like-minded friends, a renewed incentive to write, but also an mp3 of our live session on my song, to which a piano ...
- Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:37 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Recessional Hymns
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11665
I find these latest views of Thomas very refreshing. Whether we're singing the Mass or singing at Mass, isn't it the point when the singing takes hold of the assembly (voices, hearts, or both) at which it is felt to be at its most empowering? It's palpable, as on occasions such as a recent Deanery ...
- Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:31 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Liverpool Rite of Election
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7188
Birmingham R of E
...but plenty of space for the choir, seven in number!