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- Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:57 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: High esteem for the pipe organ?
- Replies: 220
- Views: 66109
Re: High esteem for the pipe organ?
I have a team of deputies (from "outside" - my one "in-house" deputy died earlier in the year) so weekend and Holyday masses are always covered. It is a privilege to count the previous DofM at Magdalen College Oxford amongst them!! Great - I'm genuinely pleased to hear that your...
- Sun Sep 23, 2012 12:55 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Greener grass?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19148
Re: Greener grass?
Thank you - that is a fantastic explanation, far more than I expected. Ironically, I picked up a words-only edition of the St Andrew Hymnal in a 2nd-hand bookshop in Miltown Malby (a small village in Co Clare that holds an absolutely mad during "music week" each summer). This edition lists...
- Sat Sep 22, 2012 10:56 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: High esteem for the pipe organ?
- Replies: 220
- Views: 66109
Re: High esteem for the pipe organ?
Whilst not wishing to sound conceited, I have been Organist in my parish for nearly 20 years, and more musicians have "gone" than "come" and yet we have sustained - indeed, developed, a good music programme in which the congregation participates and choir and cantors play their ...
- Fri Sep 14, 2012 9:55 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: High esteem for the pipe organ?
- Replies: 220
- Views: 66109
Re: High esteem for the pipe organ?
Do be gentle with us organists, even the bad ones. We all take a lot of stick for doing a job (usually unpaid) that nobody else wants to do. And yes, the organ should be held in high esteem! Ahh, I would always aim to be gentle with musicians. I hold them, yes even the not-so-skilled ones, in great...
- Fri Sep 14, 2012 9:14 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Greener grass?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19148
Re: Greener grass?
A small bump, I am interested in the answer still.
- Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:40 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Greener grass?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19148
Re: Greener grass?
Peter Jones wrote:justMary wrote:John Ainslie wrote:: 'Holy light on earth's horizon' to start with,
I'm curious - is HLOEH published anywhere?
Try Laudate 328
What edition? Whatever one that http://www.hymnary.org/instances?qu=hymnalNumber%3ALHCB1957%20in%3Ainstances&sort=firstLine has listed doesn't include it.
- Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:17 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Greener grass?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19148
Re: Greener grass?
: 'Holy light on earth's horizon' to start with, I'm curious - is HLOEH published anywhere? I've looked for it before, and found something that implied it was translated by Edward Casswall - but I didn't keep a note of where, and it doesn't seem to really be his style of English. And it's apparentl...
- Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:52 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: High esteem for the pipe organ?
- Replies: 220
- Views: 66109
Re: High esteem for the pipe organ?
Goodness! I never expected my little sideline comment to spawn a whole new thread. To respond to a few points: The "secular church choir" was of course an elongated typo - I meant "secular community choir". The reaction that I have is not to one particular building, organ, or org...
- Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:27 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Norrenough gud choons
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8413
Re: Norrenough gud choons
I wonder what you folks will make of this site: http://www.musicformass.co.uk/
I love her focus on singable, but unfortunately the sound-files on the site are dreadful MIDIs, and I'm just not skilled enough to assess the works from the scores along.
I love her focus on singable, but unfortunately the sound-files on the site are dreadful MIDIs, and I'm just not skilled enough to assess the works from the scores along.
- Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:13 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: High esteem for the pipe organ?
- Replies: 220
- Views: 66109
High esteem for the pipe organ?
120. In the Latin Church the pipe organ is to be held in high esteem, for it is the traditional musical instrument which adds a wonderful splendor to the Church's ceremonies and powerfully lifts up man's mind to God and to higher things. Maybe you could settle for holding the organ itself in high e...
- Sun Jul 08, 2012 12:53 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: More from Mgr Wadsworth
- Replies: 61
- Views: 23749
Re: More from Mgr Wadsworth
There is a lot to be disagreed with in the good Mgr's article. The first point "The entire liturgy had a ‘performance' quality to it, with the assembly as the principal focus. This was borne out by the fact that musical items were frequently greeted with applause." is interesting, and I ev...
- Wed May 16, 2012 11:52 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Congregational singing of hymns
- Replies: 147
- Views: 55721
Re: Congregational singing of hymns
If anyone has any specific suggestions about a good church to attend which has good congregational singing I would be very grateful to hear. I know nothing about London, but can sympathise with your explorations: when I realised that I would be staying in a certain west-of-Ireland city for longer t...
- Sun Jan 15, 2012 10:37 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Simply hymns for beginner guitar players
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1084
Simply hymns for beginner guitar players
I'm hanging out with a new, multi-cultural (1/3 immigrant), young (don't have stats, but LOTS of kids) parish in Ireland. Limited resources, big on commitment to the idea that music is intrinsic to Catholic worship, that the primary choir is the entire gathered assembly, and that we don't want just ...
- Sun Jan 15, 2012 7:23 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Kevin Mayhew
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12746
Re: Kevin Mayhew
I'm pretty sure that a proposal of the "set of hymn books and accompany materials" size would need approval from the Finance Committee - AFAIK, the one parish body whose decisions cannot be overruled by the PP.
- Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:18 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Performing rights
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3602
Re: Performing rights
Patty Smith Hill died in 1946 which would normally mean that, under UK law, the piece would be in copyright until 2016. However, I believe that, for some reason, it's in copyright until the 2030s in the US. US copyright law is a little different for works created pre 1978: their copyright expiry da...