Tag: “Sung Mass (Missa Cantata)” (28 posts)

Sound files from the 2010 CMAA Winter Chant Intensive

January 9, 2010 by Aristotle A. Esguerra1 comment.

On the MusicaSacra Forum, Richard Chonak shared the following files from yesterday’s Missa Cantata in the Ordinary Form, celebrated in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Charleston, S.C., at the conclusion of the Church Music Association’s 2010 Winter Chant Intensive. The Intensive was led by Scott Turkington, organist and choirmaster of the Basilica [...]

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The Liber Usualis for iPhone and iPod Touch

September 23, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra0 comments.

This announcement definitely isn’t for those who want to turn the clock back…all the way, anyway :¬)
From an e-mail to Fr. Zuhlsdorf:
My name is Michael Drake.  Over the past months I have been working on an application that combines an electronic version of the 1961 Liber Usualis with the Roman Calendar (also 1961), thereby reducing [...]

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Selected audio files from Saturday’s Missa Cantata in Matamoras, PA

August 2, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra3 comments.

Below are selected audio files from Saturday’s Missa Cantata according to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, celebrated in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Matamoras, Pennsylvania.
Introit: Salve, sancta Parens (3:16)[1]

Kyrie IX (1:50)[2]

Gloria IX (3:03)

Gradual: Benedicta et venerabilis es (2:37)[3]

Alleluia: Post partum (2:31)[4]

Offertory: Ave Maria (1:51)[5]

Preface dialogue; preface; [...]

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Sound files from Ember Saturday in the Octave of Pentecost at Holy Innocents Church, NYC

June 7, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra2 comments.

Here are some MP3s from yesterday afternoon’s Sung Mass in the Extraordinary Form, celebrated at Holy Innocents Church on West 37th Street in Manhattan. The schola is comprised of singers from all around the New York/New Jersey metro area.
Introit: Cáritas Déi; Ordinary: Kyrie I (5:04)

Alleluia: Spíritus est (1:21)

Alleluia: Spíritus éjus (0:53)

Alleluia: Dum compleréntur (2:24)

Alleluia: Véni [...]

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Music for the English Language Roman Missal: The Sung Epistle (with audio)

May 19, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra0 comments.

Following up on my initial post on ICEL’s release of selections of Music for the English Language Roman Missal, I decided to provide an illustration of how to point and deliver the sung Epistle according to the formula provided by ICEL.  The text chosen is the Revised Standard Version of Ephesians 4:1–13 — the Second [...]

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Music for the English Language Roman Missal: An Introduction (Sung Readings)

May 15, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra2 comments.

This morning, the International Committee on English in the Liturgy released on their website “Music for the English Language Roman Missal: An Introduction,” which outlines the processes used to adapt the Roman-rite melodies and melodic formulas of the Mass to the new English translations.
While those who are familiar with chanted English in the Ordinary Form [...]

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Stamford Advocate video on the CMAA Extraordinary Form workshop for priests

May 3, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra0 comments.

The Stamford Advocate features a report by Devon Lash on the recently concluded Sung Extraordinary Form Workshop for Priests and Seminarians, sponsored by the Church Music Association of America.
Accompanying the written report is a video segment by Chris Preovolos featuring interview responses by Fr. Scott Haynes, SJC, and Fr. Thomas Kocik, author of The Reform [...]

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Sound files from the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker at Guardian Angel Church, NYC

May 3, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra0 comments.

Here are some MP3s from the Sung Mass in the Extraordinary Form, celebrated on May 1st — the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker — at Guardian Angel Church on West 21st Street and 10th Avenue in Manhattan.  The schola is comprised of volunteer chanters from all around the New York metro area and is [...]

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Hymns vs. propers at Mass – questions for reflection

April 26, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra2 comments.

In no particular order, below are some questions I have come up with regarding the hymns-versus-propers discussion, which seems to have gained a certain momentum in the Catholic blogosphere.  Some of them perhaps are leading questions, others require a yes/no answer, but all of them I hope will provoke some thought on this matter.

Does the [...]

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Singing the Mass versus singing at Mass – the last word?

April 23, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra4 comments.

An article from Susan Benofy, published in the November 2007 edition of the Adoremus Bulletin with the title  “Singing the Mass: we cannot say that one song is as good as another”, is making the rounds at the MusicaSacra Forum and the New Liturgical Movement.  Read the article here.
The focus of the discussion centers [...]

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