Category: “Publications” (10 posts)
Buy Sing Like a Catholic – help win scholarship money
March 20, 2009 by — 0 comments.
Along with other print-on-demand volumes offered by the Church Music Association of America, Jeffrey Tucker’s new book Sing Like a Catholic — about which I have neglected to blog thus far — is currently storming the best-selling charts of self-publishing enabler Lulu. We are thrilled to see that the CMAA is listed as #4 in this [...]
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Announcements; Conferences and Workshops; Liturgical Reform; Publications.
Easter Vigil responsorial psalms set to Gregorian chant melodies
February 22, 2009 by — 3 comments.
Hopefully these are posted in time for someone to consider using them. Like the interlectionary chants in the Graduale Romanum, all of these are in Mode VIII. The melodies are adaptations of those commonly found in the antiphons of the Divine Office, and the psalm tones for the verses (8G or 8c) are fully notated [...]
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Liturgical Reform; Publications; Vernacular Plainsong.
Plainsong settings of the New ICEL English translation of the Mass Ordinary
February 13, 2009 by — 2 comments.
As reported on MusicaSacra.com and The New Liturgical Movement, plainsong settings of the new ICEL translation of the Mass Ordinary are now available via e-mail. I have included a banner on the right sidebar for people to sign up to receive these settings, as well as any updates, additions, and announcements pertaining to them. At [...]
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Announcements; Liturgical Reform; Publications; Vernacular Plainsong.
SacredMusicProject.com – English-language Missal propers set to music
February 6, 2009 by — 0 comments.
Fr. Columba Kelly OSB of the St. Meinrad Archabbey will be making available PDF booklets of the Missal propers set to plainsong. At the time of this post, the liturgical year up to Lent is available, but the entire year (and all three cycles) will be made available eventually. These are for free download and [...]
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Liturgical Reform; Publications; Vernacular Plainsong.
Gregorian chant organ accompaniments, now available for free
October 12, 2008 by — 2 comments.
Thanks to Jeff Ostrowski and Corpus Christi Watershed, who has brought to the world the Chabanel Psalms Project, seven volumes of the Nova Organi Harmonia are now available in PDF format for download and use. This collection of Gregorian chant harmonizations for the organ* according to the Belgian school of chant harmonization, and ordered to [...]
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Schola survey and results posted
October 8, 2008 by — 0 comments.
Noel Jones, a regular contributor to the MusicaSacra Forum, conducted what I believe is the first survey of Gregorian chant schola directors in a long time…perhaps ever. He limited his sample to 100 respondents, and asked the following questions (paraphrased below in some cases): How many singers do you have? When/how often does your schola [...]
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Announcements; Publications; Relevant Reading; War Stories.
Offertory verses to the Introit/Communion psalm verse tones
August 26, 2008 by — 0 comments.
Richard Rice, the master chant typesetter and editor of The Parish Book of Chant, has taken selected verses from the Offertoriale Triplex, set them to the psalm tones sung at the Introit and Communion, supplied English translations of the Latin, included performance notes, and compiled them all into a neat little PDF formatted volume to [...]
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The new ICEL translation and Creative Commons options
August 5, 2008 by — 0 comments.
The USCCB has made available the final ICEL translation of much of the Ordinary of the Mass on their website in PDF format, along with a letter from the Congregation of Divine Worship signed by Cardinal Arinze and Archbishop Ranjith. (Fr. Zuhlsdorf has commented on this letter on his site.) Readers who have viewed the [...]
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Liturgical Reform; Publications.
Sing to the Lord, available in print from the USCCB
June 10, 2008 by — 0 comments.
Rich Leonardi alerts us to the USCCB’s printed edition of Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship. While the document was originally issued on November 14 of last year, and a PDF version is available from the website of the conference’s Committee on Divine Worship, their edition may be had for $9.95. Rich reminds [...]
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National Association of Pastoral Musicians magazine archives are open
December 2, 2007 by — 1 comment.
On the NPM website: NPM is providing free access to the first twenty-nine volumes of Pastoral Music, extending from October-November 1976 through August-September 2005. Each issue of the magazine is posted here in PDF format for the use of pastoral musicians and others doing research on liturgical and musical issues. Readers are invited to contrast [...]
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