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Hymn: O Mother Mary of the Cross (MacKillop)

July 20, 2012, 10:25 pm
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Note: 2013-01-28, the attached PDF score and the sound file link have been changed to reflect minor changes in the descants.

In honor of Australia's (first) Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop (observed August 8), I have composed a hymn O Mother Mary of the Cross with original L.M. tune MACKILLOP and words by Veronica Brandt (aka. veromary). The attached PDF score gives the hymn with descants for the third and/or fourth stanzas, with an alternate harmonization and descant for the fourth stanza. The MP3 sound file for this setting (directly linked below to CPDL) is synthesized from a Finale source file, presents the first stanza with voices in unison together with organ accompaniment, the second stanza with voices alone in SATB harmony, the third stanza with descant, unison voices, and organ, and the fourth stanza the alternate harmonization, again with descant, unison voices, and organ.

I named the tune MACKILLOP in honor of St. Mary of the Cross, and the tune is drawn from my plainchant setting of the same text which is posted in another discussion here at MusicaSacra. Many thanks, in terms of inspiration, are due to several Australian friends and acquaintances.

Charles H. Giffen

O Mother Mary of the Cross - MP3
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Hymn text discussion: Worthy is the Lamb (Manalo)

July 21, 2013, 9:46 am
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"Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive honor and glory. Worthy are the ones who believe to receive the goodness of God."

Is this fine, dumb, or heretical?

1. WE are not "worthy" to receive ANYTHING from God.
2. I'm not sure who is implied by "the ones who believe," but from a theological point of view, I don't think anyone is "worthy" to receive the goodness of God.

Am I wrong? What am I misunderstanding?
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Hymn to St John Marie Vianney

July 20, 2010, 3:10 pm
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Does anyone know of a hymn in honor of St John Vianney? With his feast day coming up, our seminarians want to sing something special for this occasion, but we do not know where to look for this hymn and we would need to have the music as well so that they can start practicing it.

We would be very grateful to anyone who is able to help us out here, or to direct us to a web site which may have this particular hymn or hymns.

In Jesus + Mary

Ethel
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World Youth Day 2013 Official Hymn

July 25, 2013, 11:20 am
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Much of the discussion concerning the WYD 2013 music at Is This Cirque de [sic] Soleil? and World Youth Day opening mass July 23 has been rather unfocused. But perhaps a majority of the comments address the issue of musical form under the amorphous category of “pop music.” It’s the area of “de gustibus” once again.

While the “style” of the music used at the Copacabana and Aparecibo Masses is not my personal “cup of tea,” I am grateful that the approved liturgical texts were used for the Gloria, responsorial psalms, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, and that the presider at Copacabana chanted some of the prayers.

I would like to say that I think the official hymn this year is probably the best WYD hymn composed to this date. Get rid of the drums and I can even imagine it with organ accompaniment.

The range of the tune is a ninth. The text is based on Benedict XVI’s address announcing the theme of this year’s gathering. There are a number of scriptural allusions in the text.

I found this English translation at the WYD 2013 website. It is not the most accurate translation of the Portuguese original, but it’s close enough.
Hope of the dawn
(WYD Rio2013 Official Hymn)

Under the shadow, marked forever
With the sign of the Redeemer
On the hilltop, Corcovado
The whole world is filled with His love.

(Chorus)

Christ invites us:
Come to me, be my friends
Christ, He sends us
“Be missionaries!”

Can you see it, it is springtime
We have the hope of a dawn
Can you hear Him, He is calling
Receive His gift of faith
Can you imagine, if every nation
Every tribe and tongue, this generation
Saying no to war, no to hatred
Love, peace and goodness reigns.

From the East to the West
Our house is open, has no door
our land has no fences,
There are no limits to our love
We are scattered through the world
But we all keep the very same zeal
It’s your grace that sustains us
And keeps us faithful to you

We hear you, as you say
"Go make disciples, of all nations,
A new people, in unity
Bring their hearts to me”
Proclaiming your gospel
Lives are changed, we’re not the same
A new creation, the old has gone
We know a new world will come.


I prefer the recording of the Spanish version to those in Portuguese and English. Get past the soloists – many of whom sang their parts without a lot of pop music clichés (the guy from Spain seemed to go overboard the most) – and it’s really quite presentable. Give it a listen – or two:


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Latin-English hymns

April 17, 2013, 6:03 am
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Cross-posted with Chant Cafe

Here is a catalog of the hymn translations I have made so far from Latin to English, listed with their usage, according to the Liber Hymnarius.

Most are not on the internet, for various reasons. If you need one of these for your parish or other institution, drop me a line (email on sidebar) and I'll send you the text.

I really enjoy translating these. I feel like the discoverer of pristine cave paintings, and am learning so much about our Catholic culture.

A Solis Ortus Cardine: Christmastide, Lauds
Ad cenam Agni provide: Eastertide, Vespers
Adorna, Sion, thalamum: Presentation, Lauds
Adoro Te Devote
Aeterna caeli Gloria: Lauds Friday
Aeterna Christi munera, Several Martyrs, Lauds
Aeterne rerum Conditor, Sunday Lauds
Aeterne rerum conditor...mare, Guardian Angels, Readings
Agnes beata virginis, St Agnes, Lauds
Anglorum iam Apostolus, St Gregory the Great, Lauds
Antra deserti, Birth of SJB, Readings
Apostolorum passio, Sts Peter and Paul, Lauds
Aptata, virgo lampade, One Virgin, Lauds
Auctor perennis gloriae, Sat, Readings, Day
Aurea luce, Sts Peter and Paul, 1 Vespers
Aurora iam spargit, Lauds, Saturday
Aurora lucis rutilat, Eastertide Lauds
Aurora velut fulgida, Assumption, Readings
Beata Dei genetrix, Birth of BVM, Vespers
Christe pastorum, One Pastor, Readings
Consors paternis luminis, Morning Readings, Tuesday
Custodes hominum, Guardian Angels, Vespers
Deus Creator Omnium, Sunday Vespers
Deus tuorum, One Martyr, Vespers II
Dulci depromat carmine, One Virgin, Readings
Excelsam Pauli Gloriam, Conversion St Paul, Vespers
Gaudium mundi, Assumption, Vespers
Haec est dies, St Teresa of Avila, Vespers
Haec femina, One Holy Woman, Readings
Iesu corona celsior, One Holy Man, Lauds
Iesu, corona virginum, Virgins, Vespers
Iesu, redemptor omnium, One Holy Man, Vespers II
In caelesti collegio, St Francis, Lauds
Inclitus rector, One Pastor, Lauds
Iste Confessor, St Martin of Tours, Vespers
Martyr Dei, One Martyr, Lauds
Nocti succedit lucifer, Sts Joachim + Anne, Lauds
Nunc tempus acceptabile, Lent, Readings
O Gloriosa Domina, BVM, Lauds
Orbis Patrator optime, Guardian Angels, Lauds
Petrus beatus, Chair of Peter, Lauds
Primo dierum omnium, Sunday Readings
Regis superni nuntia, St Teresa of Avila, Lauds
Stabat Mater Dolorosa, OLSorrows
Virginis virgo venerande custos, St John Evangelist, Readings
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Thinking about hymns

August 1, 2013, 3:14 am
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Pope Benedict famously said, "We cannot say that one song is as good as another."

When choosing among hymns, separating the wheat from the chaff, doubtless we all think about the various hymns' quality. And surely there is more to our thinking than "The congregation knows this one," or "Everyone knows this one is drivel, so we won't use it unless forced," or "I like how it sounds on verse 4 with the descant and alternate harmonization."

We also think for ourselves about the texts, right? But how?
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Holy God We Praise Thy Name in Spanish

August 1, 2013, 8:41 am
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Does anyone have a version of "Holy God We Praise Thy Name" en Espanol? A score would be optimal but even the words alone would be helpful. Thank you.
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Relatively obscure verses to commonly known hymns

August 8, 2013, 5:54 pm
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From Come Down, O Love Divine

Let holy charity mine outward vesture be,
And lowliness become mine inner clothing;
True lowliness of heart, which takes the humbler part,
And o'er its own shortcomings weeps with loathing.
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Adeste Fideles reharmonization

August 12, 2013, 5:41 pm
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Hi everyone,

Does anyone know of a free downloadable reharmonization of Adeste Fideles. If you do, could you please give a link?
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Hymn-Tune Propers, Ad Lib. Eucharistic Antiphons

August 13, 2013, 1:13 pm
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I started working on metrical settings of the 7 ad lib. Eucharistic antiphons last night. I'm not really a poet or writer, so please let me know what you think. Note that I much prefer 'archaic' language in hymn texts, and poetry of any kind; for some reason the pronoun 'You' grates on my ears when sung. I hope that these texts are better than those in Archbishop Parker's Psalter.

The tunes given are what I was singing to myself when I wrote them, obviously any tune in that meter may be used. Also, under the tune name a psalm tone is given if verses are wanted to be chanted.

GUSTATE ET VIDETE
(Tune: OLD HUNDREDTH, [LM])
(Psalm-tone mode VII)

O come, ye children of the Lord,
Approach unto this heav’nly food;
How blest is he who trusts in Him,
O taste, and see that He is good.

QUI MANDUCAT CARNEM MEAM
(Tune: WINCHESTER OLD, [CM])
(Psalm-tone mode VI)

Thus saith the Lord, O he who eats
My flesh and drinks my blood,
Abideth ever more in Me,
And I in him abode.

PANEM DE CAELO DEDISTI NOBIS
(Tune: TALLIS’ CANON (THE EIGHTH TUNE), [LM])
(Psalm-tone mode VII)

Lord, Thou hast given unto to men
The bread come down from heaven’s height,
Containing in its every taste
All sweetness and each good delight.

MANDUCAVERUNT, ET SATURATI SUNT NIMIS
(Tune: WINCHESTER NEW, [LM])
(Psalm tone mode VIII)

They ate and all did have their fill,
They ate and all were satisfied;
The Lord gave them all they desired,
Their every want was not deprived.
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Anyone ever used The Catholic Hymn Book from the London Oratory?

August 13, 2013, 5:33 am
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Hello all,

I was in Westminster Cathedral, London and Prinknash Abbey, Gloucester last week and I came across "The Catholic Hymn Book". It seemed like a decent book, but I didn't really get a good chance to look through it. I looked it up more online when I got back to Scotland and it seems like a decent book. Can anyone tell me more about it's contents? I saw it has some common hymnody that we hear often. Does it contain any chants like the Veni Creator, Salve Regina or Alma Redemptoris Mater? Does it contain Hymns that were written by Anglicans such as Abide with me or Jesus Christ is Ris'n Today or is it purely form Catholic Hymn Writers?

Help would be appreciated, considering suggesting it as the new Hymn Book for the Parish. Then we can have a ceremonial burning of "Hymns Old and New"! God bless.
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A Metrical Responsorial Psalm for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time / C

August 18, 2013, 3:45 pm
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There’s been some discussion the past two days about today’s responsorial psalm, as well as Rory Cooney’s setting of Psalm 40, and, finally, “psalm paraphrases” and “hymns being used in place of psalms.”

Huguenots, Calvinists, Presbyterians and Dutch Reformed, to name but a few, have a long practice of singing “metrical psalms” at worship. Since “Psalms arranged in metrical form” are now permitted by the USA’s GIRM 61, those interested may wish to clip the following for use as the responsorial psalm three years from now. It’s by the distinguished Dr. Isaac Watts. Oh, but since it probably is not in any Catholic hymnal which has been published with ecclesiastical approval, you’ll need to get your diocesan bishop’s approval. But you have three years.

BTW, the text is really quite a nice translation/paraphrase/metrical psalm/hymn, whatever. Sing it to NEW BRITAIN, and you may achieve the critical mass otherwise known as FACP.
I waited patient for the Lord,
He bowed to hear my cry;
He saw me resting on his word,
And brought salvation nigh.

He raised me from a horrid pit,
Where mourning long I lay,
And from my bonds released my feet,
Deep bonds of miry clay.

Firm on a rock he made me stand,
And taught my cheerful tongue
To praise the wonders of his hand,
In a new thankful song.

I'll spread his works of grace abroad;
The saints with joy shall hear,
And sinners learn to make my God
Their only hope and fear.

How many are thy thoughts of love!
Thy mercies, Lord, how great!
We have not words nor hours enough,
Their numbers to repeat.

When I 'm afflicted, poor, and low,
And light and peace depart,
My God beholds my heavy woe,
And bears me on his heart.
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Hymn doxologies--history

August 24, 2013, 8:29 am
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Is anyone familiar with the history of concluding office hymns with a doxological verse? Would this be an ancient practice--would Ambrose's and Gregory's texts have concluded this way, for example?

Thanks!
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Music score of Hymn to St. Michael ( Holy Michael great Archangel)?

September 1, 2011, 8:19 am
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Our schola will be singing for Missa Cantata on the Feast of St. Michael, 9/29.

We would like to sing the following hymn with the congregation after the Mass with all the beautiful Gregorian Propers. Does anyone know where I can find the music score for this hymn?

Hymn to St. Michael, or Holy Michael great archangel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3x0XLZo9sE&feature=related

Thank you.
Mia
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marking in hymn arrangements/alternate harmonizations book

September 2, 2013, 10:14 am
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My organist has purchase a used copy of Thalben-Ball's alternate harmonizations, and she (and I) are stumped by notations in the book which she describes thus:

"Whoever had this book used it frequently over the past 20 years. Here's the mystery: over and over again at top of page, he/she writes FF, or FM, or both, and also notes whether it's Pre, Off, or Post; then a date is listed. What services could those be?"

Anyone?
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Suo gan

September 3, 2013, 5:33 am
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Looking for an SATB arrangement in the public domain of Suo gan. There are several tunes by this name (it simply means "lullaby" in Welsh). I'm looking for the one that sounds a little bit like this here:

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Gender-species neutral group composition exercise

September 3, 2013, 4:51 am
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Faith of our parents and dogs and cats...
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New Latin hymn in honour of Blessed J.H. Newman

October 9, 2013, 2:24 pm
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Who today would be capable of writing a Latin hymn in First Sapphic stanzas to honour the founder of the Birmingham Oratory? Who but Father John Hunwicke of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham (co-patron: Bd JHN)? It is to be found on the Oratory website.

There are some very nice touches. I note especially in the second verse, the phrase lux benigna, which is the name of the hymn tune by John Bacchus Dykes to which many of us have sung Newman's words, "Lead, kindly Light". The remainder of the strophe alludes to Newman's epitaph: Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem.
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Looking for Hymn Accompaniment

October 14, 2013, 1:00 pm
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I was asked to play a hymn, Te Saeculorum Principem, but the music provided only has two voices (for a couple sections) and unison. There's no proper organ accompaniment with it. Does anyone have the organ accompaniment available for the piece?

I've attached the music so you can see what it is.
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Advent Introit Hymns

October 20, 2011, 4:25 pm
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Hey! Advent is right around the corner!!

Related to this thread.

I like the idea of Tietze Introit hymns a lot, but I don't care for the specifics of the execution.

What I like about the idea is:
-It's the Proper text. Hoo-rah!
-While the Offertory and Communion song/hymns can easily (well...) be replaced with Chants or other choral works, the *Processional Hymn* seems like a hard nut to crack.
-Having a Proper text set to a congregational hymn in the Protesant style seems like a very worthwhile thing in the world which deliberately and traditionally lives on the border between Catholicism and Protestantism (Anglo-Catholics; Anglican Use Catholics; High Church varietals of Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists, and others; etc...)

What I don't like so much:
-I can't say I particularly care for the way the texts are set poetically.
-Lots of hymn tunes I don't know. Which almost certainly means lots of hymn tunes most congregations don't know.
-Lots of uncommon meters, making it difficult to correct the above point through re-setting to another tune.
-Under copyright. So even if I had a tune I could set some particular text to, I'm not sure I'd be allowed to. Plus, can I put them in my programs? I don't know.

******SO, THEREFORE...******

In a fit of Ritalin-induced creativity (and thanks be to God for my new doctor, and his Rx pad), and inspired by Kathy's compliment, I wrote some hymn adaptations of the Advent Introits.

Things to note:
  1. I set the antiphon in one stanza, and compressed the ideas of the Psalm verses into two stanzas. If you repeat the Antiphon after the two other stanzas, and then sing a metrical doxology, you've got a five-stanza hymn, which I think is just about right for a good processional.
  2. These are VERY OBVIOUSLY PARAPHRASES. Sometimes I'm able to hew very closely. Sometimes I had to take liberties, which (of course) requires some interpretation of the underlying meaning. For that reason, I don't think that these satisfy "Option 1." I think of them as above-average Option 4.
  3. I put all of them in LM (88 88). This is because:
    • It's my favorite meter.
    • It gives potential users a pretty wide variety of options, and could even allow someone to re-use the same melody and doxology throughout the season.
    • I was thinking of Conditor Alme Siderum
  4. This is a first draft. As always, suggestions and critiques are helpful.
  5. I will likely release these under a Creative Commons license, but notice that I have not yet.
  6. Given the speed of their production, I cannot vouch for the quality.


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Advent 1 - Introit

My soul is raised, in Faith, O God,
Let not my trust be put to shame.
Let not the evil ones be pleased;
Save those who wait upon your Name.

Make me to know your ways, O Lord;
Guide me along your pathways true.
You are the God who saves my soul,
All through the day I hoped in you.

Your love, and your compassion, God,
Are from of old, have always been.
Remember, in your goodness, Lord-
remember me, forget my sin.

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Advent 2 - Introit

O Zion, and your people, hear
The majesty of God's own voice.
All nations shall be saved by him
Who stirs your spirit to rejoice.

O shepherd, hear your people cry,
Shine forth and lead us by your grace.
Rise up in might to save your own,
Bring us to you, show us your face.

How long, O God of Hosts, how long?
How long shall tears be daily bread?
How long shall weeping fill our days?
How long, O Lord, this night of dread?

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Advent 3 - Introit

Rejoice, all people, in the Lord!
Rejoice, I say again, Rejoice!
Be never anxious for this world.
In prayer to God, raise up your voice.

The captive children of our race,
You set them free from sin's strong hand.
You turned your wrath away, O God.
And led them to your promised land.

Bring us into that land, O God.
Let not our sin call forth your rage.
Show us your mercy, set us free.
Let mercy be from age to age.

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Advent 4 - Introit

Like morning dew, the Just One comes.
From heaven He, like rain, descends.
And from the Earth, which bears him forth,
the Saviour of our race ascends.

The skies proclaim the pow'r of God,
The star shine forth the message clear.
Day unto day the sound goes forth,
Night unto night, til all shall hear.

Across the sky, the Sun shall race,
Rejoicing as it brings the day.
The morning of our joy has come,
the light of love will show the way.

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Possible Doxology:

To God the Father, God the Son,
And to the Spirit, Glory be.
All praises to the Three in One,
All glory to the One in Three.
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