Society of Saint Gregory

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

A small bump, I am interested in the answer still.

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.

: '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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

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...