Tag: GIA Publications
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Retrospectives on Composing for the Church’s Worship, Part 4
MICHAEL JONCAS — I awoke from a deep sleep sometime ca. 2 AM early that March with a single line of text and melody in my mind: “The way ahead is dark and difficult to see.”
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Retrospectives on Composing for the Church’s Worship, Part 3
MICHAEL JONCAS — The General Instruction of the Roman Missal #61 … opened up to me another compositional avenue for creating a setting of the Responsorial Psalm as an art song.
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Addendum to “New English-language Hymns for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe”
Since my recent posting about two English-language hymns for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe that appear in The Divine Office Hymnal (2023), Stephen Kasperick-Postellon, the music director-liturgist at St. Paul’s Benedictine Monastery in Oakdale, MN, has provided a great deal of information that I had not been able to find prior to the…
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New English-language Hymns for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
One of the happy surprises contained in the new Divine Office Hymnal (Chicago, IL: GIA Publications, Inc, 2023) is the inclusion of two English-language hymns intended for use on 12 December, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the USA. Almost all the hymns in this publication are translations from Latin originals, usually set to both metrical-chorale…
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Music for the Church’s Worship 3: Liturgical Music by Dr. Lynn Trapp
In my experience it is quite rare to find a composer who can write idiomatically in both “classical” and “folk” styles, let alone one who has such a sense of what is appropriate for ritual, conducive to prayer, and within the capabilities of most parish musicians. I hope that Dr. Trapp will continue to bless…
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Ruff on chant book at The Catholic Channel
Topic was my new book and CD from GIA, Canticum novum. Here is the soundtrack of the program.
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What Mass Settings Are We Using?
At the recent Collegeville Conference on Music, Liturgy, and the Arts, Michael Silhavy (now at GIA Publications) gave a plenum presentation on Mass settings with the revised Missal translation. This post is based on his remarks and the participants’ comments.
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A Review of Worship–Fourth Edition
by James E. Frazier “GIA has successfully kept in touch with the evolution of liturgical music since Vatican II, monitored the changing temper of the musical times, and in its latest volume, despite its faults, the company’s Worship–Fourth Edition presents a mature proposal for a liturgical music that is worthy of the church and its…
