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by JW
Sun Nov 18, 2007 12:41 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Incidental Music for Mass
Replies: 81
Views: 57299

Thanks for posing the question whether incidental music has relavance and please excuse the length of this reply. Silence indeed has its place in every Mass and the GIRM details times when there should be a "sacred silence." Everybody should naturally observe these. Music can also greatly ...
by JW
Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:29 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Incidental Music for Mass
Replies: 81
Views: 57299

I was very interested in the comments posted: 1) Thanks for the reminders about the GIRM requirements at Advent and Lent. Although my Flute Chorus is 8,4,22/3,2,11/3 the congregation lacks confidence and it won't support it. Mixtures and Crumhorn will stay firmly in for Advent 2) Musicus: Helmsley a...
by JW
Sat Nov 03, 2007 1:20 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Incidental Music for Mass
Replies: 81
Views: 57299

Incidental Music for Mass

Many Sunday organists are looking for incidental music repertoire that is not too demanding to play. Here is a list of what I shall be playing - before Mass, during Communion and Recessional. About half these pieces are Manuals only. Most are easy (some very easy). There is a sprinkling of pieces th...
by JW
Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:09 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: O faithful catholic, is this you?
Replies: 23
Views: 13337

I think it's also in the Baptist Hymn Book (obviously without the verse starting "Faith of our Fathers, Mary's prayers shall win our country back to thee
by JW
Sun Jul 08, 2007 8:12 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum
Replies: 45
Views: 23474

Reginald, thanks for the translation and for the time you would have spent on it. It'll be interesting to see where we go from here - with possibly two differing rites in the same deanery or even the same parish. From what I understand, the Holy Father wishes the liturgy to act as an agent of evange...
by JW
Sat Jul 07, 2007 9:55 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Hymn choices
Replies: 35
Views: 18894

Thanks for the reminders about Sea Sunday folks - I don't always check the Directory for special Sundays and often miss this sort of thing - mea culpa. Here goes for this evening: Entry: O Worship The King Alleluia (sung, Plainsong) verse (said) Offertory: Peace Perfect Peace (Mayhew) Holy Holy, Acc...
by JW
Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:36 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Holy days of Obligation
Replies: 61
Views: 37878

The church I attended, close to where I work did this: Kyrie - Polyphonic (Choir) Gloria - De Angelis (Choir - I think the organist was trying to do this antiphonally with choir alternating with congregation but it didn't work. Psalm: Motet "Tu es Petrus" Alleluia - the familiar plainsong ...
by JW
Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:37 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Hymn choices
Replies: 35
Views: 18894

Sorry for the incorrect spelling of altar in the previous post - Freudian??
by JW
Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:34 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Hymn choices
Replies: 35
Views: 18894

1) Hymn Choices - for this evening (13th Sunday - C) All People That On Earth Do Dwell Take My Life (Havergal/Mayhew) Soul Of My Saviour Here I Am Lord 2) Final Hymn: Here is the relevant quote from "Celebrating The Mass" "The practice of a final song or hymn is foreign to the Roman R...
by JW
Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:36 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Hymn choices
Replies: 35
Views: 18894

Re: Hymn choices

Presbyter wrote "Why do you feel you need four hymns when GIRM and CTM suggest three? Just a question - not a criticism. I suppose most people still do a four-hymn sandwich." Our Liturgy Committee decided to stick with 4 hymns (we do sing other parts of the Mass as well). It is an English ...