Society of Saint Gregory

Does this help from the Guide for composers Eucharistic Prayer — Use of Additional Acclamations 84. When approved by the Bishops’ Conference additional acclamations may be included in the complete musical settings of the Eucharistic Prayers, found in the Roman Missal, for optional use when the praye...

Slavish adherence to Latin syntax produces Yoda speak. It is just shameful!

Nick Baty wrote:

alan29 wrote:And what is appropriate at Westminster Cathedral...

should surely be appropriate to us all!

Goes without saying!

Isn't appropriateness a culturally based concept? What would be totally excellent in Caracas, Madras or Pretoria might not seem so apt in Llanberis or Buddleigh Salterton. And what is appropriate at Westminster Cathedral would be worse than inappropriate in our parish where any attempt to sing a Pal...

Well I have seen Faith of our Fathers in non-catholic hymn books. I guess it would fit martyrs of both sides in certain parishes on either side.

Are the UK texts actually out there in their very-most-finalest form? I am under the impression that they are still a work in progress. like others I have been fiddling with them, trying to make musical sense of the Gloria. But without too much effort in case they change again.

Thanks for the suggestion Presbyter. Nick, you are a very cheeky boy!
thinks ........ I quite like composing things for the liturgy, but if we all shoot off and do our own thing, what happens at diocesan "dos?"

I think tjhe translators have rather shot themselves in the foot by providing texts that are so very unhelpful. Its a bit rich to expect composers to set Yoda-speak in a way that congregations will find catchy and memorable. I fear that the strict application of the requirement for straight text alo...

What irritates me in my experience, is that if a Reader or Eucharistic Minister cannot come, they always seem to ask a choir member to cover their duty - because they know that said choir members will always be there. A tribute to my choir's loyalty maybe, bit very irritating if (as has happened) t...

Cancrizans would have been better if he had been a canon.

It reminds me of the universal practise in my youth of priests appearing cancrizans just before communion to help with the distribution. And swiftly de materialising straight afterwards.
Plus ca change, innit.

Why won't they let people create a bar of free-time and then enter the text under the reciting note? Is it because they can't imagine people doing without a Midi click? I see it as real deal-breaker in a piece of £500 software. Can you imagine a word processor that ham-strung you in that way?

I use Sibelius too, its fine most of the time. But an absolute pig when you want to do anything that involves setting text under a reciting note. Anyone who works in church music will hit that problem repeatedly. Maybe they have corrected it in more recent versions.

Superpowers is not the language one should hear from liturgists.

But there is plenty of stuff going on in the middle. Parishes which sing musically literate stuff based on the scriptures. It doesn't have to be "I look at Jesus/the Sacred Heart and He/It looks at me" tat.
As ever the extremes try to make the most noise and are generally wrong.