Tag: “Graduale Simplex” (15 posts)
Fr. Pierre Paul — a “humble visionary… of great courage with an eye to the future of sacred music”
August 10, 2009 by — 0 comments.
Jeffrey Tucker spoke to Fr. Pierre Paul, maestro di cappella at St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, about the steps Fr. Paul has taken to realize the vision for liturgical music as outlined in the Church’s liturgical legislation and traditions. A summary of the conversation may be found on NLM. Some excerpts are below (emphases, comments, [...]
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Style wars, the competent musician, and truly market-driven worship
April 29, 2009 by — 4 comments.
Jeffrey Herbert at The Authentic Update has been following the discussion at the Gotta Sing Gotta Pray blog post highlighted yesterday on this site, and has commented on it at length (reproduced below with links, footnotes, comments, and emphases): A commenter asked the following question after listening to several clips from the latest settings of [...]
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“In aeternum cantabo”
April 24, 2009 by — 0 comments.
Fr. Mark Daniel Kirby, who blogs at Vultus Christi, offers what he calls a “modest contribution” to the discussion on New Liturgical Movement (and by extension the MusicaSacra Forum and this blog post) surrounding the question “Can Hymns Licitly Replace Propers?” In fact, the contribution ends up being much more valuable than how he describes [...]
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Credo I, in segmented mp3 files
April 18, 2009 by — 5 comments.
The Second Vatican Council called for steps to be taken so that the faithful may also be able to say or to sing together in Latin those parts of the Mass which pertain to them, regardless of how predominant the usage of the vernacular could and indeed has become.[1] Given the widespread musical illiteracy of [...]
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On needless repetition in the Ordinary Form Mass
April 16, 2009 by — 2 comments.
Earlier this year on the MusicaSacra Forum, “Pes” makes a few observations about needless repetitions in the Roman Rite. Some background: while repetitive elements such as the second Confiteor had already been omitted from the missal in the 1962 revision, other elements were subject to the pruning shears of the Consilium headed by Archbishop Bugnini, [...]
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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.
A Simple Gradual for Mass (Lent B) / Un Graduale Simple Para la Misa (Cuaresma B)
April 1, 2009 by — 0 comments.
For Spanish-speaking faithful who are (or will be) interested in Gregorian plainsong melodies to their language, Fr. Randy Soto has collaborated with Fr. Samuel F.Weber of the Institute of Sacred Music to produce this Simple Lenten Gradual of thirteen antiphons for Mass. Download the PDF here. The visual treatment of the elisions, which are very [...]
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Super flumina: A look at the synthetic propers
March 25, 2009 by — 2 comments.
People have asked me if I’m a composer. I usually respond that I write music, but that whether or not I’m a composer I’ll leave entirely up to the judgment of others. For certain, I am no Igor Stravinsky. I say this because I’m about to criticize the work of others in rather unmitigated tones, [...]
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A Simple Gradual for Lent
March 19, 2009 by — 1 comment.
Fr. Samuel F. Weber OSB, who heads the Institute of Sacred Music in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, provides a Simple Gradual for Lent. About this small collection, Jeffrey Tucker writes, Fr. Samuel Weber has put together a small collection of Lent music for everyone that can be used for any occasion during Lent, whether [...]
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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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