Tag: “Amy Welborn” (18 posts)

Questioning organ volume levels

May 20, 2008 by Aristotle A. Esguerra0 comments.

Amy Welborn revisits the topic of excessive organ volume levels, relating the moment she began to question them: It was Holy Thursday two years ago. Some of you might know that after the Gloria on Holy Thursday, there is not supposed to be any more musical accompaniment in Mass until Easter Vigil. A Capella is [...]

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USCCB Document on Sacred Music: "Sing to the Lord"

November 30, 2007 by Aristotle A. Esguerra0 comments.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has just made their new document on music in divine worship available on their website. Download it (PDF format). While I have kept the comment box open here, I have initiated a discussion of this document on the new forums provided by the Church Music Association of America [...]

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"Gregorian Chant is Returning from Exile. Maybe"

December 8, 2005 by Aristotle A. Esguerra1 comment.

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A Musical Journey through GIRM: Choir, congregation, the Ordinary, and the Catholic "both-and" I: Regulatory considerations

May 11, 2005 by Aristotle A. Esguerra10 comments.

Following a discussion on Amy Welborn’s blog between Todd Flowerday and Jeffrey Tucker regarding the appropriateness of choral Mass parts in general, and a choral Sanctus in particular, let us return to the General Instruction of the Roman Missal and see what it has to say on the matter.

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Don’t shoot the composers; they were doing their best

May 10, 2005 by Aristotle A. Esguerra0 comments.

In following up the response to this article, Jeffrey Tucker makes a this noteworthy comment on Amy Welborn’s site regarding contemporary composers’ ignorance of the chant: In our writing on this topic, we have received several very nice letters from big-name contemporary Catholic composers who have confessed that they know essentially nothing about chant–do not [...]

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First Mass of Pope Benedict XVI, April 20, 2005

April 21, 2005 by Aristotle A. Esguerra5 comments.

Music for Mass, Sistine Chapel, Vatican City Introit3: “Iubilate Deo in voce exultationis, alleluia,” with verses from Psalm 47(46) (Tone VIIa, Graduale Simplex 175) Sign of the Cross1: chanted, Latin Greeting1: chanted, Latin Penitential Rite2: Form A, spoken Latin, with Kyrie IX “Cum iubilo” alternated between cantor and assembly [ gif | mp3 ] Gloria2: [...]

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"Inside a Chula Vista Abortion Clinic"

January 22, 2005 by Aristotle A. Esguerra2 comments.

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Redemptionis Sacramentum Central

April 26, 2004 by Aristotle A. Esguerra0 comments.

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"A war of words"

January 17, 2004 by Aristotle A. Esguerra0 comments.

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Pelvic issues, cont’d.

October 29, 2003 by Aristotle A. Esguerra2 comments.

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