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- Mon Apr 09, 2007 6:04 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Communion song anyone?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9014
Half the people are singing quietly and the looks on the other half's faces tell me they're quite enjoying the music – and this is a parish where people do speak their minds. I think I'll leave things as they are: quiet, partial co-operation and a greatly prayerful atmosphere. I agree. I've spent...
- Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:38 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Theology of Music
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19039
Thank you, Ian. Thank you, Presbyter. Vision - and challenge - noted. In Scotland there is an official national committee for church music, part of the Commission for Liturgy of the Bishops' Conference. In Ireland there is a National Centre for Liturgy at Maynooth, which runs a diploma in church mus...
- Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:13 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Theology of Music
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19039
Ian, That article 'In the Presence of the Angels' is also included in the symposium of essays printed as A New Song for the Lord , published by Crossroad. As you noted, it was an address for a particular occasion. For a more comprehensive treatment, see his The Spirit of the Liturgy and Feast of Fai...
- Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:46 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Theology of Music
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19039
- Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:25 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Theology of Music
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19039
- Sat Mar 24, 2007 6:22 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Theology of Music
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19039
I wish Joseph Gelineau's chef d'oeuvre, 'Chant et musique dans le culte chrétien', published in 1962, was still available. The English translation, 'Voices and instruments in Christian worship', was published by Burns Oates in 1964 but has long been out of print. Here is a work on the theology of m...
- Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:01 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Hail glorious St Patrick
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14076
Re: Hail, glorious St Patrick
It's interesting to note that the editors of the Westminster Hymnal of 1912 included the hymn but, as noted above, introduced an entirely different and lovely Irish tune which may well be 'Clonmacnoise', but which I cannot find anywhere else, though it seems strangely familiar. But the Westminster ...
- Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:57 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Hail glorious St Patrick
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14076
Hail, glorious St Patrick
The tune we all love, and/or love to hate, is attributed in the New Catholic Hymnal (1971) as a 'modified form of melody by Henri F. Hemy (1818-88 )'. It probably made its debut in the Crown of Jesus Hymnbook of 1864, which was put together by Faber, Caswall and Hemy. Hemy was a Tyneside organist: t...
- Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:51 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Light the Advent Candle (x)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11931
Following discussion with forum admin, I am pleased to announce that he has agreed to consider over Christmas his decision to resign as moderator of the 'Sounds Off' forum. This gives me the opportunity to wish all our readers the blessings of a joyful and peaceful Christmas. 'O come to us, abide wi...
- Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:32 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Light the Advent Candle (x)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11931
- Fri Nov 03, 2006 5:05 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Requiem Masses & Funeral Services
- Replies: 32
- Views: 17589
If at a funeral, the congregation is made up of maybe two dozen, weepy, 'unchurched' people, does expecting them to sing anything at all add to the liturgy, or actually detract from it? We've probably all accompanied embarrassed silence in our time. This is a very real question - and it applies to ...
- Sun Aug 13, 2006 4:49 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Latin II
- Replies: 41
- Views: 30418
May I sound a note of caution on reading Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's sayings on liturgical music too selectively. 'A New Song for the Lord' is a collection of articles written over many years for distinct occasions: in the case of the most quoted article on liturgical music, 'In the Presence of the ...
- Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:55 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Cardinal Arinze at Westminster
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3911
The texts of Cardinal Arinze's address and the other subsidiary presentations that preceded it are on the Westminster diocesan website (w) The cathedral appeared to be full (seating-wise) for the lecture. Afterwards the Cardinal presided at Vespers and Mass, for which the music was led by Canticum P...
- Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:00 am
- Forum: Core Repertoire
- Topic: Antiphons
- Replies: 30
- Views: 73700
Antiphons
In the interests of trying yet again to get the congregation to join in vocally at Communion, I have tried a Taizé-like approach this Lent: choose a very simple short refrain and repeat it, mantra-like, many times. Then, for a break, have a single psalm verse before repeating the refrain a few more...
- Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:23 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: What wondrous love is this?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8224
What wondrous love is this?
Reply to Merseyrider: send an email to john.ainslie@ssg.org.uk and I'll send you a PDF of an arrangement of 'What wondrous love'.