Warm ups
Starting off choir practice with a game or two. Then a prayer before choir practice.
Articles
Summer Sacred Music Workshop 2015
Summer Sacred Music Workshop in Jasper, GA, on August 15.
Carpeting Is the Enemy of Congregational Singing
The removal of carpeting is the most effective way to improve many aspects of the liturgy. Externally, what benefits most is congregational singing.
Is Latin Impossible For Choirs?
When priests came into Bishop Trautman’s office asking permission, he would start speaking Latin to them.
Musical Resources • 8th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
“The master in this Gospel is praising, not the wrongful act of the unfaithful steward, but the peculiar astuteness with which he makes friends who will be useful when things go amiss.” (Maredsous N. T.)
Afterthoughts on the Colloquium
Some afterthoughts on the Sacred Music Colloquium XXV
“Asperges Me” • Gregorian Chant
In the Extraordinary Form, the “Asperges Me” is only used on Sundays.
1951 Solemn Pontifical Field Mass • With 100-Voice “Palestrina Cathedral Choir”
Following the Mass, Archbishop Joseph H. Schlarman was made an honorary Indian chief.
SATB “Kyrie Eleison” • Henri Durieux
It’s extremely short and not difficult—yet fresh & gorgeous.
The Day Fulton J. Sheen Made A Mistake
“Sheen told a friend of mine that anything he’d ever said of significance was taken from either Knox or Chesterton.” —Fr. George Rutler
Vesting Prayers • Part 2 of 9
The Hand Washing
Five ways to print the Propers
Printing copies of the propers is very handy for singers not yet confident with the Liber and other books.
“You Will Now Feel These Interior Sentiments…”
Can you imagine a liturgical commentator standing at the front of Church declaring something like that?
As church musicians, what sustains us?
As musicians, what sustains us? Certainly, good music is a requirement. Not just good music, but beauty itself.
Musical Resources • 7th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
The organist will play softly at the Offertory.