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by TimSharrock
Thu Dec 17, 2009 2:18 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Is a Responsorial Canticle still a Responsorial Palm?
Replies: 22
Views: 8787

Re: Is a Responsorial Canticle still a Responsorial Palm?

so the electric violin....... is this an oxymoronic expression from a contemporary, dynamically equivalent and liberal, modernist translation of Psalm 150 ?? The words "digital" and "organ" I can just about cope with now the meerkat has made its presence among us but "elect...
by TimSharrock
Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:08 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Is a Responsorial Canticle still a Responsorial Palm?
Replies: 22
Views: 8787

Re: Is a Responsorial Canticle still a Responsorial Palm?

Lakelark wrote:... psalmoi means, strictly, "songs accompanied on a plucked instrument", or something like that


so the electric violin should be played pizzicato, and the electric piano on a harpsichord setting while accompanying a psalm, but not necessarily for a canticle?
by TimSharrock
Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:58 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Bloopers and Typos
Replies: 23
Views: 9282

Re: Bloopers and Typos

yesterday I found I had typed "Whale shepherds watched their flocks my night..."
by TimSharrock
Mon Nov 09, 2009 4:52 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: How important is core repertoire?
Replies: 7
Views: 2905

Re: How important is core repertoire?

Gwyn wrote: I suppose though that having a core diocesan level repertoir wouldn't mean that it would be used in parishes to the exclusion of anything else. Hope not anyway.


no, but introducing such a thing might eat all the available "introduce a new item" slots for quite a while....
by TimSharrock
Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:18 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: How important is core repertoire?
Replies: 7
Views: 2905

Re: How important is core repertoire?

for most parishoners, and probably most parish musicians, who rarely attend services outside their home parish - not very... It I am elsewhere, probably only three or four Sundays in a year, I am happy to join in with with whatever is being sung there - though it would be nice to have the music in f...
by TimSharrock
Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:48 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Special ascii characters useful to musicians & liturgists
Replies: 56
Views: 19162

Re: Special ascii characters useful to musicians & liturgists

PS: Forgot to say that the Word thing only works if you already have a Unicode font installed on your machine (in my case, Lucida Sans Unicode). You can't change the font to anything else to see what it looks like, either. Don't know what would happen if you had more than one Unicode font installed...
by TimSharrock
Thu Oct 01, 2009 10:57 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Special ascii characters useful to musicians & liturgists
Replies: 56
Views: 19162

Re: Special ascii characters useful to musicians & liturgists

In more recent versions of Word, you can get a character by typing its 4-digit Unicode, er, code and then hitting Alt+X immediately after; so in this case I type 2117 and then hit Alt+X. No idea whether it works I have just tried that in Word 2007, and it worked fine for me. some of the other symbo...
by TimSharrock
Thu Oct 01, 2009 10:49 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Special ascii characters useful to musicians & liturgists
Replies: 56
Views: 19162

Re: Special ascii characters useful to musicians & liturgists

If anyone knows how to get the Performing Right symbol (like the copyright symbol but P in a circle) that you see on CDs, etc, that would be useful. I've had to create it as a graphic image in a word processor in the past. it is unicode code point 2117 ℗ (the link describes several ways to get at i...
by TimSharrock
Thu Oct 01, 2009 10:09 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Special ascii characters useful to musicians & liturgists
Replies: 56
Views: 19162

Re: Special ascii characters useful to musicians & liturgists

mcb wrote:¿pəʇɐɹəpoɯ ɓu!ʇʇəɓ əɹoɟəq dn s!ɥʇ dəəʞ uɐɔ əʍ ɓuo| ʍoɥ ɹəpuoʍ

it seems quite appropriate for typesetting kangaroosies....
by TimSharrock
Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:40 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Special ascii characters useful to musicians & liturgists
Replies: 56
Views: 19162

Re: Special ascii characters useful to musicians & liturgists

presbyter wrote:™ - hey! He's correct! But I'm not so sure why I might want to ™ any music :?

Adam lay ybounden, Bounden in a bond:
Four thousand winter Thought he not too long.
And all was for an apple™, an apple™ that he took,
As clerkes finden in their new MacBook™
by TimSharrock
Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:37 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liturgical Top Ten?
Replies: 13
Views: 5114

Re: Liturgical Top Ten?

I looked at the last twelve months, and found something surprising, namely that there's almost nothing we've sung more than twice in that period. [...] I wonder if that's a cathedral thing? That is, having a choir that can sing anything you want them to, and can support the assembly in anything, me...
by TimSharrock
Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:49 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liturgical Top Ten?
Replies: 13
Views: 5114

Re: Liturgical Top Ten?

Some of this if good. However, why do 'Childrens' groups' always sing 70's music, while avoiding anything old, new, and traditional? (hmmm, maybe this should be split to a different thread - Mr Bear, what do you think?) In this case you have a partial picture - as I don't keep count of what is sung...
by TimSharrock
Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:15 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Healing the Deaf Man
Replies: 6
Views: 2620

Re: Healing the Deaf Man

How about asking the assembly to sign the Eucharistic Acclamations emphatically, but in silence?
by TimSharrock
Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:06 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liturgical Top Ten?
Replies: 13
Views: 5114

Re: Liturgical Top Ten?

I cannot tell you this liturgical or calendar year yet (I need to tweak the logging programs), but since we started (context - "The Children's Music Group", twice a month, typically with Piano, electric violin and hand-percussion, very limited time to rehearse with the singers - typically ...