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- Tue Nov 30, 2004 8:35 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Hymnbooks
- Replies: 78
- Views: 42081
PS - don't forget that hymns during the celebration of the Eucharist have usurped the place of the proper chants - so why not look at the proper chants to determine roughly what genre of hymn we might sing If I'm not mistaken - is it not the case in the Roman Gradual that the Introit, Gradual and C...
- Mon Nov 22, 2004 10:23 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Catholic Musicians - Training and Formation
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7247
I don't know which cathedral you're at and what your practice is but, as a Cathedral musician, can you explain why so many of our cathedrals get away with not providing "leadership in liturgical and musical matters"? When the choir sings what ought to be sung by the whole assembly does the bishop o...
- Mon Nov 22, 2004 9:32 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Catholic Musicians - Training and Formation
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7247
As a FT musical employee of one of our nations Cathedral, I must disagree that many of our Cathedral Musicians are not Catholic, or do not have some element of of Roman Catholicism in their background. Many of the RC Cathedral musicians that I am in contact with around the country aree indeed Cathol...
- Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:50 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Choirs v Congregations
- Replies: 69
- Views: 39434
Re: Musicians are people too.
any positioning of the choir that suggests that it is not part of the assembly is to be avoided, as is any location which either impedes the exercise of its ministry or prevents its full participation in the liturgy. Seems clear enough to me. If the Northern Cathedral refered to is indeed Liverpool...
- Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:52 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: breaking of bread
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10179
Is there a musical Agnus in the world which is short enough to accompany the fractio – when I go to Mass during week and we say "Lamb of God" it seems to accompany the breaking of bread perfectly. A verse-and-a-half of Inwood's Comm Song 3 seems to be too much. (I am prepared to be shot down.) Lo...
- Mon Oct 11, 2004 9:50 am
- Forum: Core Repertoire
- Topic: Sequences
- Replies: 6
- Views: 20337
A few years ago I transcribed the original Latin chants to the English Missal texts of the sequences for Easter, Pentecost and Corpus Christi. Each one has a congregational response, with the verses sung by cantor/ choir. On Easter Sunday I have done it with a segue (aka an exuberent fanfare!) strai...
- Thu Oct 07, 2004 6:34 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Announcing Musical Items
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5798
- Fri Aug 20, 2004 10:01 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: I'll sing a hymn to Mary
- Replies: 55
- Views: 33562
Am I right in believing that apart form Gloria in Excelsis hymns are a relatively new addition to the mass music repertoir? I know they were sung at devotions but I seem to recall reading/hearing somewhere that mertical hymns were not usual at Mass. Can someone clue me up? Yes, hymns in the Roman r...
- Fri Aug 20, 2004 9:43 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: I'll sing a hymn to Mary
- Replies: 55
- Views: 33562
Yes, but the council of Trent only codified the mass, it had been in use for hundred of years before that. Well, yes and no. The Council ordered the creation of a standard missal for use by all Roman Catholics under the bull Qui primum of Pope Pius V. Unless a diocese or religious order could prove...
- Wed Jun 30, 2004 8:03 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Morning and Evening Prayer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4846
). The general point, which I have finally (sorry) reached, is that Evensong / Evening Prayer offers its attendees something different than the Mass, and can accommodate a much greater variety of form and content, whether that be Farrell, Cramner Taizé or silence. Anyway, seems worth canvassing to...
- Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:05 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Glory to God
- Replies: 65
- Views: 40058
I'm afraid I'm guilty of writing a Reposonsorial Gloria but the whole of it is sung heartily by all those in our Congregation who wish to. One problem of responsorial settings of the Gloria (and to some extent this is true of through composed settings also) is how to respect the structure of the te...
- Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:57 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: music servant of liturgy?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13289
Perhaps saddest of all is that someone trained in the liturgy has to go outside the Catholic church to find a suitable paid post. Whilst I did managed to remain in the RC church, i did have to travel 3000 miles across a rather large pond to find such a suitable post! It is indeed a shame that so fe...