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by Southern Comfort
Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:21 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Using Midi
Replies: 40
Views: 12652

Re: Using Midi

if for any reason you'd wanted to slow down or speed up at any point, you wouldn't have been able to. I can – and I did. Tell us how. It's a pre-prepared track, right? You're playing along with it with both hands, right? Therefore not able to tweak the midi playback speed in mid-performance, right?...
by Southern Comfort
Mon Apr 13, 2009 3:18 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Using Midi
Replies: 40
Views: 12652

Re: Using Midi

To be entirely unfair to Nick (mea culpa), it wouldn't have been a problem if he'd stuck to the music proper to the liturgy, as recommended by the Council and most of the 20th century's popes. As was done at three cathedrals I've heard about this weekend, entirely to the exclusion of the assembly, ...
by Southern Comfort
Mon Apr 13, 2009 3:06 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Using Midi
Replies: 40
Views: 12652

Re: Using Midi

I was pounding away at the Sanctus – midi was playing a basic piano part and I was playing (yes, live!) second piano at octaves above and below. With both parts coming out of the same instrument, giving something of pub piano effect, I wondered who would even know which notes I was playing live and...
by Southern Comfort
Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:23 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Is Bach's Passion Chorale a pub song?
Replies: 3
Views: 1869

Re: Is Bach's Passion Chorale a pub song?

Well, I heard a London bus operative of Caribbean descent whistling the chorale Jesu, meine Freude not long ago...... The Passion Chorale was a love-song tune before Luther borrowed it, so why shouldn't folk find it appealing?! But, to answer Nick's question more seriously, I do think there are melo...
by Southern Comfort
Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:06 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Using Midi
Replies: 40
Views: 12652

Re: Using Midi

May I ask one thing of the above posters: Once I've removed all those things which meet with your disapproval, once I've persuaded our assembly to drop items they love and to sing the rest unaccompanied, will your lives be any richer? I suspect not. Our, however, will be somewhat poorer. I don't qu...
by Southern Comfort
Sat Apr 11, 2009 5:53 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Terrors of the Triduum
Replies: 73
Views: 24561

Re: Terrors of the Triduum

This comes from the "New" Catholic Encyclopaedia of 1914. Nope, it's from a book by Louis Duchesne, in turn quoted in the Catholic Encyclopedia. Indeed it is, a book that was published in 1889, and which is notable for its lack of source references. This lack of background information was...
by Southern Comfort
Sat Apr 11, 2009 8:13 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Using Midi
Replies: 40
Views: 12652

Re: Using Midi

it is v difficult to create Rubato etc in Sibelius but not too difficult when inputting directly into midi or adding later. <snip> If inputted directly you get what you put it – rubato, legato etc. It would be good to have an explanation of this that a lay person can understand. Do you input by pla...
by Southern Comfort
Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:26 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Using Midi
Replies: 40
Views: 12652

Re: Using Midi

Nick..Midi stuff in his situation…what we are doing when we use pre-recorded music of any description Midi is not pre-recorded music. We do not (and never will) use pre-recorded music in our parish. It simply doesn’t work. The biggest problem, already mentioned, is the inflexibility. Not true – we ...
by Southern Comfort
Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:08 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Terrors of the Triduum
Replies: 73
Views: 24561

Re: Terrors of the Triduum

It is merely the Communion separated from the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist properly so called. The details of the ceremony are not found earlier than in books of the eighth or ninth century, but the service must belong to a much earlier period. At the time when synaxes without liturgy we...
by Southern Comfort
Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:00 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Using Midi
Replies: 40
Views: 12652

Re: Using Midi

We've had this argument before. It's about authenticity. Much as I appreciate the care that Nick takes over preparing Midi stuff in his situation (and he probably takes more care than most), what we are doing when we use pre-recorded music of any description is simply not being true to the resources...
by Southern Comfort
Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:41 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Terrors of the Triduum
Replies: 73
Views: 24561

Re: Terrors of the Triduum

Nick is right. For hundreds of years only the celebrant communicated (even if there were loads of other clerics there). You have to go back to the earliest of the Ordines Romani (8th/9th century) to find everyone communicating. This is also the first mention of the Mass of the Presanctified (as it u...
by Southern Comfort
Sat Apr 04, 2009 1:53 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Archbishop of Westminster
Replies: 76
Views: 25569

Re: Archbishop of Westminster

keitha wrote:There is a precedent for there being 2 concurrent cardinals in England & Wales


And in Scotland - Gray and Heard.
by Southern Comfort
Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:48 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Thomas Muir stuck in Africa?
Replies: 32
Views: 14272

Re: Thomas Muir stuck in Africa?

Hotmail only close down accounts that have been inactive for 6 months. Do not be fooled by e-mails such as the above.
by Southern Comfort
Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:49 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: On Entrance Antiphons - Reforming the Reform
Replies: 11
Views: 4993

Re: On Entrance Antiphons - Reforming the Reform

It's worth remembering that John Paul II actually signed off on the new GIRM in Holy Week 2000, even though it was not published until July of the same year and had already been altered by that stage. My apologies: this was not totally correct. The date of the Pope's 'signature' on the document is ...
by Southern Comfort
Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:52 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Thomas Muir stuck in Africa?
Replies: 32
Views: 14272

Re: Thomas Muir stuck in Africa?

Dot wrote:I can get the full header info from "properties - details" (that which presbyter displayed in his 1st post), but I don't know if that's what the guy wants.


Yes. Give them the e-mail plus the details that presybter gave in both his posts.