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by claire
Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:42 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Incidental Music for Mass
Replies: 81
Views: 57322

Re: Incidental Music for Mass

Thank you all for the reminder of restraint at Advent and Lent - I had kept going willy nilly! For 'coming in' music we usually rehearse the psalm - again despite weekly practices - at the request of my nervous soloists! We do it quietly! Our pp has suggested we use the time before Mass to play over...
by claire
Tue Feb 08, 2005 7:59 pm
Forum: Sounds Off
Topic: Copyright Query?
Replies: 19
Views: 21482

Ta for your replies - I'll assume Mr Ballet won't mind - sure I wouldn't if I'd been dead for nearly 300 years!

Will try to include a washboard in setting1

Hey, you guys re psalms - get your own thread!!
by claire
Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:24 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: 'Warming up' ideas
Replies: 1
Views: 2400

'Warming up' ideas

Well I usually start off sessions with our local WI choir with some physical warm-ups - breathing and out to counts of six, then eight etc. Next, raising and dropping shoulders, then shoulder rolls. All this serves to encourage good posture, open up the 'column of air' to produce a good sound, and a...
by claire
Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:57 pm
Forum: Sounds Off
Topic: Copyright Query?
Replies: 19
Views: 21482

Copyright Query?

Can anyone help, please? I have just nearly finished setting the text of the Lute-Book Lullaby for - hopefully- a performance at Christmas 2005 (I'm also a saddo who gets her Xmas cards in January!) The original text and music by one William Ballet (17C) are in OUP Carols for Choirs 1, arranged by G...
by claire
Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:58 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Catholic Musicians - in the congregation?
Replies: 7
Views: 4670

Catholic Musicians - in the congregation?

Firstly, many thanks for your replies and encouragement! Keep 'em coming! Hi Merseysider, been there and done that with diocesan liturgy commission - perhaps in future, there will be an opportunity!
by claire
Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:01 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Reality
Replies: 14
Views: 7830

Re: Reality

Sorry, not yet used to this posting lark, so if another message comes out weird - sorry!!

Totally agreed with the quote - gregorian chant was, is and ever shall be a basis of good musical composition for the Church - subjective, I know!!
by claire
Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:27 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Catholic Musicians - in the congregation?
Replies: 7
Views: 4670

Hi Merseysider, Firstly, a big thank you for all your encouragement! I think we may have been at crossed purposes regarding my first paragraph - I was lamenting the lack of musical education/ choir/church schools in Italy, not this country - therefore lack of direction from Rome - if the South Bank ...
by claire
Sun Jan 16, 2005 4:07 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Catholic Musicians - in the congregation?
Replies: 7
Views: 4670

Catholic Musicians - in the congregation?

This is my first proper post, so with some trepidation, here goes! Around Christmas (cannot remember the date) I watched the South Bank Show about music education in schools, on which apparently the government is spending more. At the end of the programme, they gave a summary of church/choir schools...
by claire
Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:55 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Announcing Musical Items
Replies: 9
Views: 5687

Announcing musical items

As I am only just over 5' tall, I frequently have problems seeing number boards! It is useful if a pp announces the hymn number and says the first line only, then part of the first line is played over (without the harmonies so that the tune is clearly heard - I have been told by members of the congr...