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by mcb
Sun Sep 12, 2004 4:12 pm
Forum: Core Repertoire
Topic: Beatitudes
Replies: 6
Views: 21131

"Restored" from..?

M.
by mcb
Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:19 am
Forum: Core Repertoire
Topic: Beatitudes
Replies: 6
Views: 21131

Re: Core repertoire- Beatitudes

please can they be Beatitudes, not Happitudes... Surely blessed and happy are very different words, Benedict and Felix in all their forms are not the same. Quite a hard word to translate, I think. The Greek is makarios , and in Latin it's not benedictus or felix but beatus . Maybe it's hard to tran...
by mcb
Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:57 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Music and the Tablet
Replies: 19
Views: 10868

Yes, really disappointing article. Annoying to find the Tablet confining an article on celebrating the sacred mysteries to a section entitled Parish Practice , as if it were on a par with doing the accounts or rewiring the PA system. As for the article itself, it seems to me a really meagre vision t...
by mcb
Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:41 am
Forum: Core Repertoire
Topic: Psalms
Replies: 30
Views: 61169

I wonder if summer isn't a better time to extend parish repertoire? Only hardcore parishioners about Now your secret's out, Sid, does that mean 'Category A' parishioners? Anyway I doubt whether you're right - it's not the hardness of the core that determines whether people go away in the summer. If...
by mcb
Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:37 am
Forum: Core Repertoire
Topic: Psalms
Replies: 30
Views: 61169

Re: YES!

Dot said: ...composers to turn their mind to the use of these texts in the context of Entrance Antiphon and Communion Antiphon. ... Sort of moves us slightly away from the concept of 'hymns and songs' - nothing wrong with that per se , but would greater reference to the psalms focus us more on our ...
by mcb
Fri Aug 20, 2004 3:34 pm
Forum: Sounds Off
Topic: What to do with potentially publishable music
Replies: 20
Views: 44573

Re: Yes, but...

What about the text though? Exodus 15, or any psalm; we may have written the music, but the text belongs to someone else, right? We need to ask for permission to use that first. If we publish and make a pot, won't the text copyright owner expect his cut? Yes, that's right in principle, though it de...
by mcb
Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:12 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: I'll sing a hymn to Mary
Replies: 55
Views: 33053

presbyter wrote:Here y'are :D


Er, thanks. Let me gloss "well, duh" for you - it's "as any fule kno".

Obviously we're talking (hyper-)dulia here, unless you mean to tell me that you believe addressing someone other than God in the liturgy is of itself latria? You're out on a limb if so.

M.
by mcb
Tue Aug 17, 2004 5:49 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: I'll sing a hymn to Mary
Replies: 55
Views: 33053

We probably need the Latin here (not to hand I'm afraid) ... If you have the Graduale to hand, which Psalm(s) is this an antiphon to? Don't know. I got the text from m , but it just gives the antiphon rather than an accompanying psalm. In the old rite the Communion is - Gloriosa dicta sunt de te, M...
by mcb
Tue Aug 17, 2004 5:01 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: I'll sing a hymn to Mary
Replies: 55
Views: 33053

Yes, thanks, Presbyter, for some interesting reading. I'm not altogether sure that what you've posted answers the point, though. I'm certain we can all agree that there's no such thing as a Mass to Our Lady, and that the Sundays in May are not feasts of Our Lady. But those points are a long way from...
by mcb
Sun Aug 15, 2004 9:55 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: I'll sing a hymn to Mary
Replies: 55
Views: 33053

Yet I do not think it at all appropriate to sing a hymn to Mary on this great feast at all. Can't say I agree. Christians have always believed it appropriate to honour the saints (and to address them in doing so), and I don't see any reason to stop now. Mary has pride of place in that, for lots of ...
by mcb
Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:12 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: SSG Summer School 2004
Replies: 9
Views: 6111

I'd just like to say that I found the bar! :?
by mcb
Sun Aug 01, 2004 11:01 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: SSG Summer School 2004
Replies: 9
Views: 6111

SSG Summer School 2004

A survivor writes... Well, I made it home again, exhausted and reeling after my first experience of an SSG Summer School. What an experience – five days packed with enough education, entertainment and provoking-of-thought to last a whole year. Something of a cross between a high-powered retreat an...
by mcb
Thu Jul 22, 2004 10:44 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Late arrivals at the Liturgists' Ball
Replies: 91
Views: 44965

If you're allowed to wander around Essex I'm definitely allowed to invent new parishes.

St Ronald's, Westminster Cathedral Plaza:

Am I to eat the flesh of bulls,
or drink the blood of goats?
Ps 49(50)

(I'm, er, lovin' it.)
by mcb
Thu Jul 22, 2004 8:35 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Late arrivals at the Liturgists' Ball
Replies: 91
Views: 44965

St Peter Ex Vinculis, Pentonville.

We have escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare;
The snare has been broken, and we have escaped.
Psalm 124: 7-8
by mcb
Tue Jul 13, 2004 10:26 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Late arrivals at the Liturgists' Ball
Replies: 91
Views: 44965

Re: Groooooooooooooooooooooooooooan

Dot wrote:Someone really ought to throw the book at them; nay, make that the Pentateuch.


That would be quite Ruthless. Ithenkyow.

M.