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by Peter
Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:32 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Active Participation?
Replies: 31
Views: 11777

Re: Active Participation?

Welcome to the forum, Helen! We had a liturgy meeting- quite well attended, a few weeks ago, and the one thing to come out of it was that a planning group should meet and plan music a month at a time. ... The main proposer of this for this did not want to be involved with HW&E planning, and I wo...
by Peter
Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:57 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Easter Sequence
Replies: 21
Views: 8952

Re: Easter, Exsultet, er........

Having suggested ... There is also a hymn version, by James Quinn, in Laudate no 259. ... I got some flak for using it this morning on the grounds that it is too long, the tune ("Gelobt sei Gott" aka "Vulpius") is not very exciting and people got restive. Admittedly it is longer ...
by Peter
Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:07 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Cringe-making lines in hymns
Replies: 36
Views: 21050

Re: Cringe-making lines in hymns

What's making me cringe most is that organist is posting at 3.34am. Since I stopped working overnight in a Swiss lead lined shed I'd forgotten such a time existed. Yes, I'd wondered whether organist was going for the record early-bird post, after posting at 5.27 a week ago and 4.26 yesterday. Howev...
by Peter
Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:23 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: The wickedness of face cream
Replies: 150
Views: 370774

Re: The wickedness of face cream

Mention of Stainer's "Crucifixion" on another thread reminded me of the time when I sang the tenor solo part some years ago and had to take care not to make the line "Here in abasement..." towards the end of "King ever glorious" sound as if we'd gone below street level:...
by Peter
Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:59 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Evening of Feb 2: Presentation or Sunday?
Replies: 11
Views: 4602

Re: Evening of Feb 2: Presentation or Sunday?

Christmastide continued until 2nd Jan in the Catholic church too until John XXIII's reforms moved it to the Baptism. Has that not happened we would have been straight out of Christmas and directly into Lent this year! Did you mean 2nd Feb ? If so, that would have produced a really bizarre situation...
by Peter
Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:29 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Good Friday ecumenical service
Replies: 6
Views: 3211

Re: Good Friday ecumenical service

The Pope John Sunday Missal (Redemptorist Publications 1984, 85 ISBN 0 85231 068 4) has a version of the Stations in which all the meditations take the form of extracts from Scripture even if some of the links are a bit tenuous (eg 4th Station: Lk. 2:45-59, Sg. 3:1-4; 6th: Is. 53:2-3, Is. 52:14-15, ...
by Peter
Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:44 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: What do you do if you, your choir or cantors foul up?
Replies: 51
Views: 20297

Re: What do you do if you, your choir or cantors foul up?

The cantor didn't know why it happened. We have weekly rehearsals, for cantors alone as well as full choir, and every singer has a detailed music list.. He had been having trouble with the syncopation in the verse for The Baptism, but had got it "sussed" and told me had been looking throu...
by Peter
Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:12 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: What do you do if you, your choir or cantors foul up?
Replies: 51
Views: 20297

Re: What do you do if you, your choir or cantors foul up?

The reaction of whoever suspended you says much more about his hang ups than about you. Agreed: the phrase "attitude problem" springs to mind if you read ... As my previous Anglican PP said to me, somewhat platitudinously(?), when I told him I had really done my best and it had gone wrong...
by Peter
Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:40 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Easter Sequence
Replies: 21
Views: 8952

Re: Easter, Exsultet, er........

There is also a hymn version, by James Quinn, in Laudate no 259.
by Peter
Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:50 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Easter, Exsultet, er........
Replies: 8
Views: 4536

Re: Easter, Exsultet, er........

Resurrexit is being "reprinted" or "out of print" on Decani website at the moment so I suppose I could try a music shop for a copy. Might not have time though. If you know which one you want, it might be worth asking Decani if they could print off that piece for you. ... it is o...
by Peter
Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:35 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: What do you do if you, your choir or cantors foul up?
Replies: 51
Views: 20297

Re: What do you do if you, your choir or cantors foul up?

It's very sad, asb, if you feel the need to resign over something that was not your fault (you played the right verse, the cantor sang the wrong one) and sadder still if there are people in the congregation willing you to get it in the neck for a mistake that's very easily made (one of my singers ha...
by Peter
Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:21 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Easter, Exsultet, er........
Replies: 8
Views: 4536

Re: Easter, Exsultet, er........

Several years ago my then (very ecumenically minded but since retired) PP found the hymn below, which he substituted for the "Exsultet" at the Vigil for a while. It fits the tune "Woodlands" (which is quite jolly) and a notice in the book it came from says it's OK to reproduce it...
by Peter
Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:12 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: O Come, O Come. To pause or not to pause
Replies: 7
Views: 3081

Re: O Come, O Come. To pause or not to pause

The source given in most books I've found is "Adapted by T Helmore from a French missal"; Laudate says "From a 15th century French manuscript", though in the 15th century all missals were presumably in manuscript anyway. In the English Hymnal it is given as a plainsong line (arr ...
by Peter
Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:26 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Confitemini Domino- extra parts?
Replies: 3
Views: 1841

Re: Confitemini Domino- extra parts?

Songs from Taizé - Instrumental Parts , Ateliers et Presses de Taizé, 2001, ISBN 2-85040-185-4, contains parts for guitar, recorders (single line and duet), flute, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, trumpet, trombone and cello or bassoon for Confitemini as well as accompaniments for many other Taizé c...
by Peter
Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:37 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: pre-midnight Mass carols
Replies: 24
Views: 10682

Re: thread

It is common to have half an hour of carols before the service? Full circle. Not in my church, where the previous PP supported Dunstan's and Docmattc's view, expressed on another thread, that Christmas begins with the Midnight (or possibly for those who attended that instead, Vigil) Mass and that C...