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by Dot
Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:23 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Proclamation of the date of Easter
Replies: 16
Views: 9850

I've been thinking about the replacement of human conductors with robots ever since my encounter with Asimo (robot child of the Honda corporation) last week. Could they deal with changing tempo and rubato? (link to video of robot conductor above failed, so I don't know) Would they set predictable te...
by Dot
Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:06 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Folk Group
Replies: 39
Views: 21824

That looks just like my favourite choir leader! Couldn't possibly comment He's a sturdy chap, isn't he? Btw, is that a baseball bat he has in his nearside front paw? That'd tame any wayward alto, (or maybe just most!) Response from wayward alto: the process of taming did not involve a baseball bat ...
by Dot
Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:24 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Folk Group
Replies: 39
Views: 21824

"There are lies, damned lies and statistics......" Where do you get your statistics from, Sid? I was at a funeral on Wednesday (no one I knew) and an expert organist was extemporising for a good twenty minutes before the service started. Many things were going on in that time, many distrac...
by Dot
Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:07 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Replies: 53
Views: 29613

Humpty Dumpty ... is as simple an explanation of the Third Law of Thermodynamics as you could hope to offer to any enquiring infant puzzled by the frailty of life and the inevitability of entropy Being pedantic, isn't it an illustration of the Second Law (unless Humpty was exceedingly cold....) I t...
by Dot
Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:52 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Start of Advent
Replies: 69
Views: 34614

The equivalent of the glorious twelfth ( no shooting before that date ) should surely be: no carols before Christmas whenever that is - 17th Dec???? Is that really the forgetful mcb at the piano in above piture? The evidence is compelling (only top of head visible above piano). He may have forgotten...
by Dot
Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:30 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Start of Advent
Replies: 69
Views: 34614

There's nothing cruel about cross country; it should be a compulsory part of the National Curriculum :lol:
by Dot
Wed Nov 15, 2006 3:36 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Westminster Cathedral
Replies: 41
Views: 26258

I knew I'd regret that abbreviation. Nice limerick, Vox We (me and Year 9) were watching a video this morning on the difficulties of staying in space for long periods. This American astronaut guy kept mentioning "going to the bathroom" and how not "going to the bathroom" enough c...
by Dot
Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:59 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Westminster Cathedral
Replies: 41
Views: 26258

From one who is "cursed": it is simply a quirk of memory, it is not "perfect" in that it can be conditioned into thinking somewhat flat or somewhat sharp (up to a semitone), and I know of many people who can acquire it by habit. It makes one lazy about reading intervals, but it d...
by Dot
Sun Nov 12, 2006 7:48 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Westminster Cathedral
Replies: 41
Views: 26258

In the course of the SSG day at Westminster Cathedral, I was struck by the Vespers that preceded 6pm Mass. Scanning this thread, I notice that mcb has already said exactly what I was thinking: This was a truly successful participatory liturgy, with the congregation heartily embracing their role in c...
by Dot
Fri Nov 03, 2006 9:15 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: James MacMillan's thoughts on Bind Us Together
Replies: 11
Views: 8638

Gosh, sid: was going to add a response earlier and then up popped another post from you, to which I must respond too. Well done for including "even a well meaning congregation" as worthy contributors to the music. I would judge an accompaniment, to a large extent, by how well it supports a...
by Dot
Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:20 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Soppy sixties service sheets
Replies: 20
Views: 13926

Stay calm, oops. "Now we remain" has been held up as a shining example by one of those deemed sufficiently "in the know" to give the James Crichton Lecture. I stick to my line that I will never pass judgement on musical or liturgical worthiness, though I am entitled to my own tas...
by Dot
Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:48 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Westminster Cathedral
Replies: 41
Views: 26258

So I'd suggest a different analogy from your image of 'eating out', which I'd say colours the way we do things at Salford: cathedral liturgy can be like going round for dinner at your mum's, to see how it should be done. In that case, I would never have eaten curry or most foreign food - what a sha...
by Dot
Sat Sep 02, 2006 5:02 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Westminster Cathedral
Replies: 41
Views: 26258

Thank-you so much, precentor, for your contribution to the debate. It is worthy of a thread in its own right. I often read the Forum with a sense of frustration and feel very wound up by what contributors are saying. Your comments, and the response they have received, leave me with a feeling of sere...
by Dot
Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:59 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Use of Latin
Replies: 46
Views: 57208

All the big words are Presbyter's. The only one that is out of the ordinary is "macaronic", describing a text with different bits in different languages, eg. English and Latin. The rest are fairly standard terms in everyday life, or so I thought. I prefer my macaroni with cheese sauce.
by Dot
Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:24 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Use of Latin
Replies: 46
Views: 57208

A macaronic mélange can work perfectly well. It wasn't so much that the ostinato was getting in the way of the verses, and we had been instructed to hum during the verses (though we didn't because we don't all listen to instructions). After a while, the cantor directed a decrescendo just before he ...