Readers might be interested to look at Alan Smith's article on composition in the latest issue of 'Music and Liturgy'. This is the first of three parts.
Thomas Muir
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- Sat Jul 29, 2006 9:33 am
- Forum: Sounds Off
- Topic: Tips for composing and arranging music
- Replies: 37
- Views: 78138
- Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:03 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Use of Latin
- Replies: 46
- Views: 57517
Use of Latin
Could I just pick up on a point made by 'Cantator' about the relationship between the Latin text and plainchant in Mass Propers. I would be the last to deny that the actual plainchant can be closely tied to the text, especially if sung using Pothier and Haberl's 'sing as you speak principle' (though...
- Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:13 pm
- Forum: Sounds Off
- Topic: Tips for composing and arranging music
- Replies: 37
- Views: 78138
Tips for composing and arranging music
For a useful cross-reference on combining organs with other instruments (by me, I am afraid), see the thread 'Organists' and the item dated July 14th, 2006. You might also be amused to see some of the reactions to this as well!
Thomas (Muir)
Thomas (Muir)
- Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:46 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Organists
- Replies: 19
- Views: 13181
ORGANISTS
Organists and other instruments Much depends on the type of organ/keyboard you have. If the Organ is electrical/digital it will usually have three built in advantages: (1) An ability to transpose the pitch up or down at will. (2) Instant response - as opposed to the delay you sometimes get with larg...
- Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:24 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Use of Latin
- Replies: 46
- Views: 57517
Use of Latin
Use of Latin seems to fall into three categories; each with their own issues: (1) Straight plainchant settings (2) Non plainchant settings using all Latin texts (3) Non plainchant settings using a mixture of English and Latin In my parish we have the ability to perform plainchant Mass ordinary setti...
- Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:13 am
- Forum: Sounds Off
- Topic: Tips for composing and arranging music
- Replies: 37
- Views: 78138
tips for composing and arranging music
Dear all, Many thanks for the suggestions about improvisation. Would anyone like to share tips about specific approaches to improvisation? For example, I initially learnt my techniques in this area through the medium of 12 bar blues in a jazz band. Here each instrument repeats the 'melody'/motif or ...
- Tue May 30, 2006 10:38 am
- Forum: Sounds Off
- Topic: Tips for composing and arranging music
- Replies: 37
- Views: 78138
Tips for composing and arranging music
Just to encourage more people to contribute from their own experiences, here is another suggestion from me. Plainchant accompaniment. Many people think this should not be done. However we do know that medieval musicians did so and there are occasions when you may feel your singers/congregations need...
- Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:38 am
- Forum: Sounds Off
- Topic: Tips for composing and arranging music
- Replies: 37
- Views: 78138
Tips for composing and arranging music
It is surprising how often church musicians find themselves not just composing, but - more frequently - arranging or adapting music to meet local needs. Indeed, the skill applied to such activity can make or break the effect of any given performance. So why not use the Society of St Gregory Forum to...
- Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:47 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Liz, Byrd and Recusancy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4234
Byrd
There are several detailed articles about Byrd's relationship with the government in specialist musical journals (though, offhand I cannot give precise details here). There have also been several papers on the subject at Royal Musical Society conferences. In particular, I remember a paper given last...
- Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:45 am
- Forum: Sounds Off
- Topic: Chant based Eucharistic settings
- Replies: 42
- Views: 94490
Chant based eucharistic settings
Here is a personal reply to the original question from 'Organist'. If he would like to receive a free copy of my setting of the Gloria I will send him one if he leaves me a contactable address/e.mail here. If there is a way of reaching just him through this site could someone give me some instructio...
- Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:48 am
- Forum: Core Repertoire
- Topic: Psalms
- Replies: 30
- Views: 66169
Psalms
Could I suggest that the central issue with psalms as part of the core repertoire is practicality. At present the main difficulty with getting psalms sung regularly at Mass stems from this; and until it is overcome in many churches the Responsorial Psalm will never become a regular reality in these ...
- Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:42 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Diocesan Music Committee
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11654
Diocesan music committees
Could I draw attention to the fact that such committees have a very long history reaching right back into the nineteenth century. The original inspiration came from the Society of St Cecilia, founded in 1867 by Franz Xavier Von Witt to promote plainchant and Renaissance polyphony. This published lis...
- Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:45 am
- Forum: Core Repertoire
- Topic: Antiphons
- Replies: 30
- Views: 73565
Core Repertoire - Antiphons
Can someone explain to me - in simple terms - what Rome is proposing on this front in the Revised Instruction of the New Missal? From my reading of articles in Music and Liturgy I get the impression that Rome wants to scrap the singing of hymns at the entrance, offertory and communion. New antiphon ...
- Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:29 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Papageno and his amazing metrical tune
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3681
Papageno's melody
In the Crown of Jesus Music hymnal (c.1863) this is set to the text 'I am a faithful Catholic'. This is a classic example of Hemy's religious educational philosophy in action; since here he was primarily thinking of children. Hemy believed that the tune should be intertwined in the mind with the tex...