Category: Music: Mass settings
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El papel del coro en la liturgia católica / The Role of the Choir in Catholic Liturgy
ANTHONY RUFF, OSB — ¡Más solos de coro! ¡Más por cada dólar! Disponible en español e inglés / More choir solos! More bang for the buck. Available in Spanish and English!
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Podcasts: ACU’s Speaking of Liturgy
STAFF — Marty Haugen and Cathy Murrowood explore the use of instruments in the liturgy and discusses how they can color and enhance the rites.
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Does the Sensus Fidelium include the tune?
MICHAEL O’CONNOR — When the priest and people sang the preface dialogue, it was sung faithfully to the notation found in the missal; this was particularly noticeable to me because it is not what I am now used to.
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Pray Tell’s review of Gather IV
Gather IV is designed to meet the needs of the modern pastoral musician
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New Music Review: Mass in Honor of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne
Stylistically sound and musically satisfying, Joncas’s latest setting of the 2010 Revised Order of the Mass offers dignified music for liturgical prayer. Reminiscent of some of his previous service music, including Sing Praise and Thanksgiving (WLP) and No Greater Love Mass (GIA), Mass in Honor of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne is lyrical and versatile. While some…
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Poll Results: Advent Mass Setting
Tthe top four responses are all unmetered chant.
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Cloud Hymnal — a New, Digital Worship Resource and Music Tool
Cloud Hymnal is a multifaceted worship resource that includes, for example, an ever-growing library of new and old sacred music. Some music is newly composed by the Center for Music and Liturgy at St Thomas More, and some music is newly contributed by other members of the Cloud Hymnal. Additionally, there are 25,000 public domain…
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Chanting the texts of the liturgy, from Tim O’Malley at Church Life
Tim O’Malley has a fascinating opinion piece over at Church Life today. He’s in favor of chant, not instead of hymnody, but instead of reading. I have to admit I find this argument intriguing: Last Sunday, we went to the Melkite Liturgy on campus. The entire liturgy, as anyone knows who has attended Eastern liturgies,…
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Church Music across History, part II
Are there resources out there that feature music from the seventeenth-century, for example, or which provide samples from across church history?