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- Tue Dec 02, 2014 5:42 pm
- Forum: Sounds Off
- Topic: Notation software
- Replies: 89
- Views: 5017249
Re: Notation software
The great thing about Capella - and I have used it for the whole of my English Proper Chants (melody and accompaniment editions) - is that you can dispense with bar lines as a regular feature altogether, and just insert them where you want them. Invaluable for chant and free-rhythm composing. Only ...
- Sun Nov 30, 2014 3:08 pm
- Forum: Sounds Off
- Topic: Notation software
- Replies: 89
- Views: 5017249
Re: Notation software
The great thing about Capella - and I have used it for the whole of my English Proper Chants (melody and accompaniment editions) - is that you can dispense with bar lines as a regular feature altogether, and just insert them where you want them. Invaluable for chant and free-rhythm composing. Only a...
- Thu Jul 24, 2014 4:21 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Eucharistic Adoration
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15703
Re: Eucharistic Adoration
In my parish we have Sung Evening Prayer and Benediction every Sunday shortly before the Evening Mass: exposition first, then EP, then 5-10 minutes' silent adoration, then Benediction, finishing with the Marian antiphon by the Lady statue - 35 minutes in all. Usually starts with about half a dozen, ...
- Mon Apr 07, 2014 4:39 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Palm Sunday for guitars and flute
- Replies: 25
- Views: 17964
Re: Palm Sunday for guitars and flute
Besides the tradition of doing without instruments for much of the Triduum, there is a lot to be said for doing without instruments from time to time. It prevents people thinking that because there are no instrumentalists around, they can't sing. On the contrary, saying to people (explicitly or impl...
- Sun Mar 30, 2014 9:52 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Litany of Saints at The Easter Vigil
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7520
Re: Litany of Saints at The Easter Vigil
There is a traditional order for the saints invoked in the Litany of the Saints:
I provide this for information only.
- biblical saints
martyrs (men first)
non-martyrs:
- men
- popes
bishops
others
I provide this for information only.
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 5:18 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Resource for Cantors
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4042
Re: Resource for Cantors
I like the videos and accompanying documents. My grouse is not about the subject matter or the presentation. It is about the title 'cantor'. Paul Inwood recently wrote in the PrayTell blog: The problem with 'cantor' is that it can be interpreted simply as psalmist or even soloist. The French term an...
- Tue Nov 19, 2013 9:47 am
- Forum: Sounds Off
- Topic: English Proper Chants
- Replies: 10
- Views: 24340
Re: English Proper Chants
This is exactly the kind of discussion about 'Proper' texts that I hoped would result from my efforts. I refer readers to my Best-Practice Guide, for which you'll find the link on the third page of http://www.benedicamus.org.uk/chants . The first four lines of my Foreword read: This collection of se...
- Sun Nov 17, 2013 9:06 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: The wickedness of face cream
- Replies: 150
- Views: 464575
Re: The wickedness of face cream
http://www.ssg.org.uk/phpBB3/images/smilies/icon_redface.gif I wasn't responsible for the concordat for this part of the Missal. In any case the job of the concordat'ers is not to duplicate the work of the publisher's proof-readers. In the case of the readings, it was not clear just what source the...
- Fri Nov 15, 2013 6:46 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: The wickedness of face cream
- Replies: 150
- Views: 464575
Re: The wickedness of face cream
A friend of mine who came to the Mass at St John's Wood last Saturday spotted this typo in the CTS 'Brick' Daily Missal (p. 3132):
...Making a whip out of some chord, he drove them all out of the temple...
The lost chord? A (very) flat minor? Dischord or discord?
...Making a whip out of some chord, he drove them all out of the temple...
The lost chord? A (very) flat minor? Dischord or discord?
- Tue Nov 12, 2013 6:00 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Post Baptismal Catechesis
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6621
Re: Post Baptismal Catechesis
JW may be right about the ignorance of some supposedly-educated youngsters. But to keep the debate at the adult level, I have to ask: how many adults, "fully initiated" as children, come to faith - almost as a conversion experience - later on? For them much of the RCIA process is indeed re...
- Tue Oct 29, 2013 11:12 am
- Forum: Sounds Off
- Topic: English Proper Chants
- Replies: 10
- Views: 24340
English Proper Chants
I am pleased to announce the launch of English Proper Chants - chant settings of the entrance and communion antiphons of the Missal, ICEL translation. You can find them at http://www.benedicamus.org.uk/chants - the first two seasons'-worth are available now, the rest to follow in due course. If you ...
- Sat Oct 19, 2013 9:13 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Eulogies
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9333
Re: Eulogies
As I wrote in a previous thread, I am all for eulogies at the beginning of a Funeral Mass, after the coffin has been received and the symbols of faith placed on it, and immediately after the priest's greeting and welcome of the relatives and friends of the deceased: at an emotional time in what for ...
- Sun Oct 13, 2013 6:34 pm
- Forum: Sounds Off
- Topic: Chant Antiphons for Eastertide
- Replies: 5
- Views: 19868
Re: Chant Antiphons for Eastertide
Thanks, Gwyn.
I have a chant project in the pipeline, hopefully issuing forth in the next few weeks. Watch this space!
I have a chant project in the pipeline, hopefully issuing forth in the next few weeks. Watch this space!
- Sat Sep 21, 2013 5:40 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: 'A Big Heart Open To God'
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4784
Re: 'A Big Heart Open To God'
The whole article I found fascinating and inspiring. It's very important to read the context of extracts and quotes. There's enough material in it for a whole week's retreat - or spiritual exercises.
- Mon Sep 16, 2013 7:04 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Adoremus in aeternum
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7894
Re: Adoremus in aeternum
There is a continuity between the one I now adore in the form of the Eucharistic Presence and the one I will adore face-to-face, so think I can say to him while he is the Blessed Sacrament that I will love him for ever. That is exactly my point. If I was to say/sing that I will adore Jesus for ever...