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- Wed Mar 02, 2016 10:36 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Saturday evening Masses
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8521
Re: Saturday evening Masses
Yes, my experience of Saturday evening Masses is much as described above. [1] There is still a strong sense (inherited from pre-Vatican early morning Mass on Sundays) that this is a 'Low Mass' with little in the way of singing. In particular choirs stand at a discount. Likewise, though to a lesser e...
- Wed Mar 02, 2016 10:24 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Noises off
- Replies: 14
- Views: 34890
Re: Noises off
I really do not see what the fuss is all about. I regularly play before and after services in both Anglican and Catholic churches. Everyone chats away quite happily during this; so, if anything, it reduces the 'concert type' pressure on me. I am just providing 'background music' with vaguely religio...
- Thu Jan 07, 2016 3:47 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Musical accompaniment on Good Friday
- Replies: 32
- Views: 24129
Re: Musical accompaniment on Good Friday
Why not use other instruments as well as the organ? A mixed ensemble of voices and instruments offers exciting possibilities - and I do not mean Taize, St Thomas More or 'Folk' approaches. Also, why not also experiment with different types of keyboard - re-arrange the music so that you play to the p...
- Tue Dec 22, 2015 12:19 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: The Holy Year of Mercy - are we doing anything?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 18102
Re: The Holy Year of Mercy - are we doing anything?
Yes, I have noted a lot of activity in terms of published literature; but, looking at the whole exercise very much as an outsider the following things strike me: [1] The title 'Year of mercy' I find most off-putting, suggesting a kind of 'droopiness' that I am sure is not intended. Maybe it is somet...
- Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:17 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Music and Liturgy.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4470
Re: Music and Liturgy.
However I thought Paul Inwood's review and summary of the history behind the new Gelineau Psalter translation was excellent.
Thomas
Thomas
- Fri Oct 24, 2014 11:00 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Carol Services
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2638
Re: Carol Services
Years ago at school my house did a sequence of six medieval mystery plays, complete with medieval music researched and arranged by no less a person than David Hiley, who was on the staff at the time and later wrote the massive authoritative Introduction to Western Plainchant (cannot remember the exa...
- Fri Oct 03, 2014 4:19 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Animals
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6726
Re: Animals
'Dere's Animals, and animals, and animals, and animals, and animals, and animals - Yes Lord!'
Terrific Negro Spiritual I remember learning at school - from the Yale Song Book, no less.
Thomas
Terrific Negro Spiritual I remember learning at school - from the Yale Song Book, no less.
Thomas
- Tue Aug 26, 2014 10:22 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Service of rededication/commission of musicians, etc
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13313
Re: Service of rededication/commission of musicians, etc
The Anglicans do quite a bit of this sort of thing; especially in Cathedrals, but also in Parishes with vigorous choir-organ traditions. I would not be surprised if the RSCM/Sarum college do not also have materials. I know that in the Anglican church at my mother's village, there is always a special...
- Mon Aug 11, 2014 2:22 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Pope Francis moves to suppress liturgical abuses
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25209
Re: Pope Francis moves to suppress liturgical abuses
I think the bottom line with any liturgy (or details therein) is whether it 'works' for the people who attend a given service. A liturgy may be 'correct' in every detail; but if it does not meet people's needs and perceptions about what a service should do, then it is useless. It is inevitable that ...
- Sat Aug 02, 2014 10:15 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Pope Francis moves to suppress liturgical abuses
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25209
Re: Pope Francis moves to suppress liturgical abuses
Nick Baty wrote:Astounding that such practices are seen as "abuse".
Quite so! This is 'scribes and pharisees' stuff.
- Fri Jul 25, 2014 11:17 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Eucharistic Adoration
- Replies: 17
- Views: 16100
Re: Eucharistic Adoration
I note that the original incentive for this thread was concern about attendance at religious services. I am sure that many people like the idea of 'eucharistic adoration'; but personally I find the actual title a real turnoff. Partly it is to do with the choice of vocabulary. It would be interesting...
- Fri May 23, 2014 10:35 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Long-standing music director axed as £1m debt forces cutback
- Replies: 23
- Views: 29890
Re: Long-standing music director axed as £1m debt forces cut
Permit me to clarify a little. It's actually £50,000 a year spread over 20 years to cover a debt of £1 miliion. The diocese has doubled the term in order to make it only £50,000 a year instead of £100,000. So the cathedral is paying off an accumulated debt of £1 million at a rate of £50,000 a year ...
- Thu May 22, 2014 2:39 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Long-standing music director axed as £1m debt forces cutback
- Replies: 23
- Views: 29890
Re: Long-standing music director axed as £1m debt forces cut
when financial considerations are given as the ostensible reason for dismissing people whom a diocese then laments, the actual reason is usually political. In the case of Hallam, £50,000 a year debt is peanuts, and not a reason for firing a valued minister to the diocesan community. Hallam is not t...
- Tue May 20, 2014 10:08 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Long-standing music director axed as £1m debt forces cutback
- Replies: 23
- Views: 29890
Re: Long-standing music director axed as £1m debt forces cut
Whether business criteria should really be appropriately applied to the particular music ministry of this topic. Were the same criteria applied to our education deliverers they may be found wanting but often unnecessarily so. On the surface this seems to prove my point. We find financial considerat...
- Tue May 06, 2014 11:43 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Long-standing music director axed as £1m debt forces cutback
- Replies: 23
- Views: 29890
Re: Long-standing music director axed as £1m debt forces cut
Yes, the situation at Llandaff is serious. The cathedral authorities restored the organ; but, for financial reasons, they then abolished the choir. As a result some people have refused to continue donating money to the cathedral, thereby compounding the financial problem. Note that this is an almost...