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by Peter
Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:47 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Organists and communion
Replies: 18
Views: 6486

Re: Paying an organist

That seems an odd situation. Surely the payer was entitles to call the tune of this particular piper. In theory, yes, but only if the payer has a clear idea what he wants the piper to play. In most churches I know, the music is decided by the people playing it and I suspect that may be the case in ...
by Peter
Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:21 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Peace
Replies: 27
Views: 10285

Re: thread

Do I remember rightly holding hands during the Peace at SS? That seemed a much better solution. It's the way we've done it in my church for many years and a tradition that our new PP has agreed to continue. A few people seem uncomfortable with it but it's a powerful symbol of a community seeking to...
by Peter
Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:01 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Remembrance Sunday
Replies: 11
Views: 4975

Once referred to by one of the kids in the choir as Blind Worm. Similarly, according to my music group we sing "Alleluia,sing to Jesus" to the tune "Hydrofoil"! At our Vigil Mass on 10th November we too used "What shall we pray?", which I think is an excellent hymn. Th...
by Peter
Tue Nov 06, 2007 12:11 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Organists and communion
Replies: 18
Views: 6486

Surely full participation in the Mass is better served by receiving Holy Communion at the end of the procession than by abstaining. Paul Inwood's advice is to do just that, on the grounds that musicians are to some extent the hosts at the meal and should let others receive first. I've even known so...
by Peter
Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:13 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Limerick
Replies: 12
Views: 8159

Because this is HTML and not English, special symbols like Greek have to be entered as codes. See this helpful explanation . (The codes all start with ampersands and end with a semi-colon.) Thanks, Musicus. I've added the page to "favourites" and expect it will prove very useful. Unfortun...
by Peter
Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:24 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Limerick
Replies: 12
Views: 8159

There was a young curate from Kew who kept a tom cat in a pew. He taught it to speak alphabetical Greek, though it never got further than mu. (Works better if you can use Greek characters - and, for that matter, carriage returns, which the system is resolutely refusing to give me!)
by Peter
Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:38 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: seeking a genre
Replies: 33
Views: 15015

To get back to the original topic, when I need to identify the genre of hymns we are talking about I call them "Hymns based on early sixties pop." Have I misunderstood the question? I thought the idea was to find a classification for modern hymns that weren't based on early sixties pop, i...
by Peter
Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:26 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liturgical HON
Replies: 58
Views: 22667

Re: thread

Peter, are you my Peter form S S? 664 is Hon Hopwood Mass which is OK but paraphrases and after the first million years gets a bit depressing. The Kyrei (can't remember how to spell it ) is "Father of all have mercy on us" x three and more, then Saviour of all etc, then Spirit of all etc....
by Peter
Sun Sep 30, 2007 10:20 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liturgical HON
Replies: 58
Views: 22667

Re: thread

His favourite hymn is I the Lord of Sea and Sky and he would up it up at the end of every Mass if he could, that and Give me Joy in my Heart for the Entrance. Bless him. They are both in Laudate - 865 and 722 respectively. 865 is covered by Calamus and 722 (at least the words and melody) are "...
by Peter
Sun Sep 30, 2007 10:03 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liturgical HON
Replies: 58
Views: 22667

Re: thread

A photocopiable Liturgical Planner. ..... I got so stuck this morning because the clapping Gloria is in CFE and I felt guilty about printing out the words...... Decani publish a Liturgy Planner, which you can get for a reduced rate if you subscribe to Calamus (see previous posting). The Clapping Gl...
by Peter
Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:52 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liturgical HON
Replies: 58
Views: 22667

Re: thread

Meanwhile I don't know week on week what to do..... neither hymn book is enough for the congregation, and sheets are not legal. Duplicated sheets get round the problem of which hymn-book to choose and they can be perfectly legal, provided that either (a) the material you are copying is in the publi...
by Peter
Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:13 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liturgical HON
Replies: 58
Views: 22667

If you have the licences and are producing service sheets, I'd stick with it. I agree wholeheartedly. This is how we work at my church and it enables us to pick hymns from a wide variety of sources (several hymnbooks as well as home-grown hymns or items picked up from Composers' Group meetings) to ...
by Peter
Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:08 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Holy days of Obligation
Replies: 61
Views: 37879

Nazard suggested You really should try "Abide with me" to Woodlands, it does put a bit of life into it! Or "The Old Rugged Cross" to Elvis's "Ol' Shep". One music master at my good old Benedictine school taught us the words of Tantum Ergo by getting us to sing them to ...
by Peter
Sun Aug 19, 2007 4:10 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Singing at High Mass
Replies: 23
Views: 11554

I have never heard the Benedictus left until after the elevation, but I have read about it. My Father can't remember it either, so it hasn't happened a lot in the last fifty years. I've done it this way with the Reading Haydn Choir, which operated in the 1970s primarily for the purpose of singing c...
by Peter
Sun Jun 17, 2007 8:28 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Preparation of the Gifts
Replies: 19
Views: 9800

One problem with hymn "Gifts of Bread and Wine" is that it is past tense as far as Offertory is concerned; "Gifts we've offered . . ." " Taken, offered, sanctified . . . " I fully agree (even though a priest a few years ago insisted (wrongly IMHO) that it was an Offert...