Alleluia, Song of Gladness [BEAUDRY 87. 87. 87] (Charles H. Giffen)
Here is John Mason Neale's translation "Alleluia, Song of Gladness" of Alleluia, dulce carmen, set to my hymn tune BEAUDRY. It is especially appropriate for the last Sunday before Lent.There are three...
View ArticleAn SAB hymn honoring a member of CMAA.
Angela Marie Manney works tirelessly and happily with little children at Mini O'beirne Crisis Nursery in Illinois.In appreciation of her efforts there and her diligent work promoting excellent sacred...
View ArticleUseful article by Karl E. Moyer, F.A.G.O. from an Anglican discussion list.
Karl writes:Tempi are part of a yet-broader and more important kind of distinction between "this" kind of hymn and "that" kind of hymn. To some degree these distinctions ought to reflect the basic...
View ArticleUsing actual Latin Hymns at an actual Latin Mass - a taboo few dare to cross!
I want to know why very few people will use a latin hymn at a latin mass. Can anyone think of a time when they hear this combination? I do not mean a motet or a processional but a regular latin hymn at...
View ArticleHarmonization - The Glory of These Forty Days
Here is a harmonization I recently did of "The Glory of These Forty Days".The object was to make it as straightforward as possible.
View ArticleCatholic Book of Worship III
I am absolutely dismayed at the text in this hymnal. I bought a choir edition for my choir and we use the Glory and Praise 2nd edition hymnal as well as the CBW III. Now, I am thinking I should have...
View ArticleSweet Sacrament We Thee Adore: Extra verses?
I'm looking for extra verses for this hymn, suitable for procession.
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...
View ArticleProcessional Hymn to St. Patrick
As it the Feast of St. Patrick today, and it is almost Easter...From the Analecta Hymnica Vol. 43 pg. 266https://archive.org/stream/analectahymnica43drevuoft#page/n269/mode/2upDe Sancto PatricioSalve,...
View ArticlePublic Domain Text--The removal of Thee and Thou
When hymnal publishers change original public domain text, do they own a copyright to those simple changes? i.e. removal of thee, thou, thy. The text for "The King of Love My Shepherd Is" (St. Columba)...
View ArticleName Your Ten Favorite Common-Meter (86.86) Hymn Tunes*
Please share your ten favorite Common Meter/CM/8686 hymn tunes below. Well-known, obscure, even overdone tunes are welcome...as long as they're among your favorites.If you wish, give a reason why a...
View ArticleWhat do you think of the new St. Michael Hymnal?
What do you think of the new St. Michael Hymnal? I just got one, and it seems a vast improvement over the former. I don't like the smattering of contemporary hits, but overall it's more complete,...
View ArticleGood Metrical Psalters?
Which modern metrical psalters are generally considered good?[I'm assuming most will be Protestant versions - I haven't really seen many Catholic metrical psalms outside of John Dunn's in HPASC, and...
View ArticleChant Hymns in English
Under a previous pastor I had a weekly "Chant Mass" using "By Flowing Waters" and a chant Schola that sang the Communion Antiphons from the Graduale once a month. Under the new pastor the weekly chant...
View ArticleCombine two or more hymn titles to create something new
Silence, Frenzied, Unclean Drummer Boy
View ArticleHymn Text (Marian) for Epiphany
[2015 EDIT -- This text underwent some revision. Scroll down for final(ish) version.]O mighty city of our GodRise up! Your light has come at last.Your streets, the path our Lord shall trod,And peace,...
View Article"Homegrown" hymnals? Do tell...
A few years ago I prepared a cost analysis for our previous pastor examining projected savings from cancelling subscription worship aides in favor of weekly ordos. My (new) current pastor wants to...
View ArticleLooking for a PD or CC text for MONK'S GATE
I am looking for a PD or CC text that works for MONK'S GATE, preferably a general hymn of praise (Meter 11.11.12.11) for a project I'm working on. The text I really like is, unfortunately, under...
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