Organ Accompaniment for Canticle of the Sun
I'm being required to play Canticle of the Sun where I work because it is a "catchy tune" and maybe the people will sing it (yeah right!). Anyway, this written accompaniment for it is for the piano,...
View ArticlePublic domain metrical Psalm 130
I'm looking for a good metricization of Psalm 130 (Out of the Depths) in the public domain. Any ideas?
View ArticleThe Divine Music Project
This is a good site for music for the Divine Liturgy:https://www.stanthonysmonastery.org/music/Index.htmlDescription:This website contains more than 6000 pages of Byzantine music in Western and...
View Article15 Reasons Why We SHould Be Using Hymnals
This is probably old news to most of you, but in case anyone hasn't seen it, a paean to actual hymnals, with actual bindings, from a Protestant blogger's perspective. I imagine we'd all agree with at...
View Articlehymn paraphrases of Marian antiphons?
Hey all,Does anyone know of any hymn paraphrases of “Alma redemptoris” or “Ave regina cælorum”?
View ArticleA Catholic Organist's Book of Hymns - online and in print.
When developing A Catholic Organist's Book of Hymns, we selected useful public domain hymns from various hymnals without thinking of them as anything but a resource for us.As a reminder, the COBH is a...
View ArticleNubilem Christi gregorian hymn tune
Can somebody post a mp3 of this hymn melody from Solemnes Liber Hymnarius (same tune for Christe cunctorum sator, Magdalae sidus, Nobilem Christi,Quas tibi laudes)
View ArticleA Catholic Organist's Book of Hymns Sample Pages- 6 Hymns with Chorale...
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View ArticleChesterton carol
Here is a setting I made for a friend a few years back of this lovely Chesterton poem. It is (to follow on another discussion) more of a hymn than a carol, but seasonal nevertheless. Feel free to...
View ArticleCopyright permission for St. Gregory hymnal?
My pastor wants to use a hymn from the St. Gregory hymnal for Holy Family this year and print it in a program. To whom or to what would I address my questions for copyright? Who holds the copyright on...
View ArticleQui creavit caelum
Does anyone have a good score for this, preferably the authentic unison version?1. Qui creavit caelum, Lully, lully, lu,Nascitur in stabulo, By, by, by, by, by,Rex qui regit saeculum, Lully, lully,...
View ArticleVon Himmel hoch - A solis ortus cardine
I had somewhat envied the Lutherans this tune, as there are some good organ pieces on it.But see p. 5* here - you can use the melody of Von Himmel hoch with the text of A solis ortus cardine, the Lauds...
View ArticleA Solis Ortus Cardine / From Lands That See the Sun Arise [St. Croix]...
Here is John Mason Neale's translation of the Christmas hymn A solis ortus cardine (stanzas 1-7 & a Doxology) by Sedulius set to my Long Meter Double hymn tune ST. CROIX. The Latin score is posted...
View ArticleArticle in AIM magazine on office hymns and scripture
In the Spring magazine/ planning guide from WLP there's an article that discusses one of my hymn translations that is in their new hymnal.I wanted to point it out not only for the usual self-promotion,...
View ArticleIn search of the ultimate hymnal
If you were a music director, with an ideal pastor committed to orthodoxy and the best forms of sacred music....and then this pastor asks you to choose a new hymnal to replace the OCP...
View Article150 Indispensable Catholic Hymns?
Cross-posted at the Chant Café. This is a very casual post. No desire to create a "white-list" repertoire, et cetera. I would really love to hear thoughts from the collective wisdom of this...
View ArticleCatholics behaving badly
Organist at Catholic church, on hearing a recording of today's Mass.NB: I was minorly shocked when I listened to this recording. On the fourth verse "sorrowing, sighing" I accompany on the Swell, thus...
View ArticleHymns in literature and film
I'm teaching an evening class called "Discovering Hymns", and after working my students very hard so they can tell their Watts from their Wesley, and recognise Double Common Metre at a hundred paces, I...
View ArticleThrid verse 'O God beyond all praising'
Third verse for Thaxted Does anyone have a third verse for 'O God beyond all praising'? I swear I have used one for an ordination, but I cannot find it. I realize there are only two verses in the...
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