Society of Saint Gregory

"Non-secular" does not always stay that way, either. Music tagged "gregorian" at last.fm, for example includes a mix of "real" Gregorian Chant and modern "New Age" or "Chill" music in somewhat similar styles, from groups such as Era and Gregorian

mcb wrote:I'm a proud father.

ditto godfather

... a beautiful setting by Monteverdi, too difficult for our parish resources and too long for our modern day liturgies unfortunately. It completely slipped my mind until I was looking through the papers this evening: we sang this at last year's Summer School. Dispatched it with considerable aplomb...

JW wrote:I'm a bit concerned about the cost of both Sibelius and Finale.

I use Noteworthy Composerhttp://www.noteworthysoftware.com which at $49 is less expensive than the professional programs, but is good enough for my needs

Nick Baty wrote:

TimSharrock wrote:the acclamations at a given feast are usually the same as the previous year

But no longer!

yes - and given that we will probably give it some thought together at the liturgy meeting

... The folk who attend the Triduum will be lost if the organ and choir strike up with, for example, a Holy which they are not used to singing. For acclamations, at least, the various ensembles should have a common repertoire. In practice it does not seem to cause us a problem - probably because th...

We are another "separate planning" parish. Of the five Sunday Masses in the church itself two are normally sung. The 10am Mass has a children's music group two Sundays each month, for which my wife and I choose the music - typically just a week in advance. It would be could if we could pla...

mcb wrote: Preparation and planning for the event is now literally at fever pitch.)

so between G and G# an octave and a bit below middle C (if you work in Fahrenheit) or a bit above D an octave and a bit lower again in Celsius... (sorry)

Doc is right. The Calamus licence does cover the Psallite products. If you don't have a Calamus licence, you need to buy a licence from the UK agents, Magnificat Music. That is not at all clear from the books, and Liturgical Press were happy to take my money and did not point me elsewhere.... (but,...

Of course simply being in posession of a parish licence does not mean one can reproduce the stuff willy-nilly- acknowledgments must be printed and returns filled in, but that's a topic for another thread. so at least since I have paid for the Psallite license directly I don't need to worry about th...

and contacted Liturgical Press for a Psallite antiphons reprint license Do you not have a Calamus Licence? I have been told that the Parish does have a Calamus License (though I have not seen it with my own eyes, and am not at all sure that those who told me know exactly what it does and does not c...

Inspired by the music at this year's Summer School, we came back with a few copies of Where two or three are Gathered (the year-A sampler) and one cantor/choir edition of Psallite . My thought was that we would try one or two of the psalms from the sampler, and see how they went in our context. We a...

It is not something we have considered for our Children's Music Group. I don't think I would want to award certificates, as one thing we want to do is to differentiate from school. On the other hand, we do give the children (and child-like adults) something chocolate at Christmas and Easter, and we ...

Mithras wrote:I did not see much of the broadcasts, lacking a TV

If you have broadband, http://www.thepapalvisit.org.uk/Replay- ... atch-Again has on-demand video of many of the events - for example the Gloria at the Beatification Mass starts just over 26 minutues into http://www.thepapalvisit.org.uk/Replay- ... nal-Newman

It was my first Summer School - it was wonderful Apart from all the "serious" things I have learned and experienced, I had never before ⋅ had "Happy Birthday sung to me so well ⋅ sung a piece in 27 parts ⋅ heard a contra-bass-clarinet ⋅ been in ...