Category: “Devotional Music” (28 posts)
SMTV Vol. II, No. 5.5 – Chez Nous (Traditional French)
May 29, 2009 by — 0 comments.
(This entry is part 25 in the series “Sacred Music Television, Vol. II.”)
Chez nous soyez Reine, nous sommes à vous;
Régnez en souveraine, chez nous, chez nous!
Soyez la Madonne qu’on prie à genoux,
Qui sourit et pardonne chez nous, chez nous!
L’Archange qui s’incline vous loue au nom du ciel.
Donnez la paix divine a notre cœur mortel.
Chez nous [...]
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Devotional Music; Recordings; Videos.
SMTV Vol. II, No. 4.2 – “Seven Last Words of Christ,” no. 3 (MacMillan)
April 10, 2009 by — 1 comment.
(This entry is part 19 in the series “Sacred Music Television, Vol. II.”)
(Ecce Lignum Crucis
in quo salus mundi pependit:
Venite adoremus.)
(Behold the Wood of the Cross
on which The Saviour of the world was hung
Come let us adore him.)
Verily, I say unto thee, today thou shalt be with me in Paradise.
Composer: James MacMillan
Choir: Polyphony
Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia
Conductor: Stephen [...]
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Contemporary Religious Music; Devotional Music; Recordings; Videos.
English-language prayers of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, in three Gregorian modes (PDFs and mp3s)
April 3, 2009 by — 0 comments.
In anticipation for next week’s Divine Mercy Novena, here are three Gregorian Chant–inspired settings of selected prayers of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, in chant notation. The prayers set are: the “Eternal Father…” (to a Gregorian-informed melody), “For the sake…” (to a selected Psalm tone), and the Trisagion (to a melody similar in form to [...]
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Devotional Music.
Ninety-nine songs for ninety-nine cents (limited time)
March 26, 2009 by — 2 comments.
I got this in the mail recently, and I endorse it.
I wanted to let you know that over the next 5 days we are making 99 of our sacred chants available for only 99 cents on amazon.com.
The link to the deal: 99 Perfectly Relaxing Songs
The response we have received so far is PHENOMENAL…Lots of people [...]
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Announcements; Devotional Music; Recordings.
SMTV Vol. II, No. 3.3 – Choral Prelude BWV 639 “Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ” (Bach)
March 20, 2009 by — 0 comments.
(This entry is part 16 in the series “Sacred Music Television, Vol. II.”)
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Arranger: Andreas Kaesler
Guitarist: Andreas Kaesler
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Devotional Music; Recordings; Videos.
“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
March 14, 2009 by — 1 comment.
Fr. Dwight Longenecker, a convert from Anglicanism, provides this reflection on church music. While not claiming to know everything there is about it, he does make some points that have been made by others before him.
What we must do is trying to choose liturgical music is sort out some basic questions: First of all, what [...]
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Contemporary Religious Music; Devotional Music.
Theology’s aural side
March 12, 2009 by — 2 comments.
Scelata highlights a recent ZENIT Letter to the Editor:
A response to: Theology’s Visual Side
When one reads this article I believe you could easily replace the words “icon/iconography” with “liturgical music” and the same principles should apply. The principles described in this article are so often lacking when it comes to the arrangement and visual side [...]
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Catholic Punditry; Contemporary Religious Music; Devotional Music.
SMTV Vol. II, No. 2.4 – Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Bach)
February 27, 2009 by — 1 comment.
(This entry is part 13 in the series “Sacred Music Television, Vol. II.”)
Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit.
In ihm leben, weben und sind wir, solange er will.
In ihm sterben wir zur rechten Zeit, wenn er will.
God’s time is the best of all times.
In Him we live, move and are, as long as He wills.
In Him [...]
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Devotional Music; Videos.
SMTV Vol. II, No. 2.2 – O Sacrum Convivium (Messiaen)
February 13, 2009 by — 3 comments.
(This entry is part 11 in the series “Sacred Music Television, Vol. II.”)
O sacrum convivium!
in quo Christus sumitur:
recolitur memoria passionis ejus:
mens impletur gratia:
et futurae gloriae nobis pignus datur.
Alleluia.
O sacred banquet!
in which Christ is received,
the memory of his Passion is renewed,
the mind is filled with grace,
and a pledge of future glory to us is given.
Alleluia.
Hymn Writer: [...]
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Contemporary Religious Music; Devotional Music; Recordings; Videos.
Compared: a psalm translation and its paraphrase
February 5, 2009 by — 3 comments.
One of the emblematic fruits of what passed for liturgical music reform in the past generation is Marty Haugen’s “Shepherd Me O God,” which is marketed as Psalm 23 in GIA’s Celebration Series collection of music they intend for the liturgy.
I contend that, contrary to the psalm reference given at the top of the composition, [...]
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Devotional Music; Liturgical Reform.
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