Polish Lenten Hymnody
Could anyone share a four part score to the Polish hymn Jezu, Tyś cały krwią zbroczony?And/or, does anyone have suggestions and access to four part scores for other Polish Lenten hymns that would be...
View ArticleNuptial Chants in English?
Friends, I have been looking around for the Proper in English for a wedding Mass. So far, I have only been able to locate English propers in Adam Bartlett's Simple Engish Propers. However, the bride...
View ArticleHymns based on Office of Dead responsories/Songs of Farewell
The Order of Christian Funerals provides 7 responsories (most from the former Officium Defunctorum, but not necessarily well translated) that can be used as a "Song of farewell" or other processional...
View ArticleIt's the annual time to consider a published hymnal for your parish.
It's the annual time to consider a published hymnal for your parish BEFORE the Pastor's phone starts ringing in June and some contracts for missallettes automatically renew.Start getting prices and get...
View ArticleA Catholic Organist's Book of Hymns - online and in print.
When developing A Catholic Organist's Book of Hymns, we selected useful public domain hymns from various hymnals without thinking of them as anything but a resource for us.The 3 part hymns are easier...
View ArticleLet Thy Blood in Mercy Poured ... score and a cappella Youtube performance
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View ArticleLet Us Rise in Early Morning [tune: Corde Natus] (Charles H. Giffen)
The text is from the Golden Canon for Easter Day, Ode V, by St. John Damascene (d. ca. 754-787), as translated by John Mason Neale (1818-1866) and appearing in Hymns of the Eastern Church, 1866. The...
View ArticlePre-Urbanite Hymns
I recall reading somewhere that the pre-Urbanite hymns may be used ad libitum for the Divine Office in the traditional Latin rite, i.e., no special permission is necessary to substitute them for those...
View ArticleHymn "O Holy Spirit! now descend on me" [MacKillop 10] (Charles H. Giffen)
The text of this hymn, by Christina Forsyth (1825-1859), is well-suited to Pentecost or Confirmation. Although the original text has nine stanzas, most earlier hymnals seem to have included typically...
View ArticleOn This Day the First of Days
1st stanza:On this day, the first of days,God our Maker's name we praise;Who, creation’s Lord and springDid the world from darkness bring.Curious what others think: Should this hymn be understood in...
View ArticleHymn for the new memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church
I wrote this originally for the Immaculate Conception, and it's easy to see that great feast's influence here:The first verse is taken from the definition of the Immaculate Conception, which I believe...
View ArticleSt. James Music Press
Has anyone used this online resource? I am particularly interested in it for the children. They charge a yearly subscription for $139 and you can print as many pieces off for the whole year. It looks...
View ArticleMusic Resources in South Jersey?
I am a former parishioner and choir member at St Paul's, Cambridge, MA, now living in New Jersey. I would like to find church music contacts in Burlington and Camden counties, with the ultimate goal of...
View ArticleHelp! In need of SATB setting of "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence"
Does anybody know a nice, relatively simple, SATB setting of "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence" ?
View ArticleCustom Spanish/English/Latin Parish Hymnals
We have gradually expanded a bit to be able to produce tri-lingual hymnals for parishes, including assisting them in full production and copyright compliance.Choose and pay for only the hymns and music...
View ArticleHymn text: prayer of St. Michael the Archangel
Esteemed colleagues: I know many of you are hymn writers...I would like some feedback on my attempt at arranging the prayer of St. Michael for 7676D. I have in the mind the tune AURELIA and to use it...
View ArticleHymn for the feast of St. Peter & Paul (in English)
I would like to find some beautiful, orthodox and not so difficult hymn for the feast of St. Peter and Paul.Its text should be in English. Could you give me some suggestions? Any suggestion will be...
View ArticlePalestrina Pange lingua and falsobordone
Dear allI know Palestrina wrote a polyphonic setting of the hymn Pange lingua, but I see that Sir Richard Terry gives a falsobordone version for alternating verses in his Music for Holy Week volume....
View ArticleHymns in honour of Saint John the Baptist
Melody abstracted (yet again) from the SSPX hymn Sancte Pie Decime.
View ArticleMagne Pater Augustine (Mode 5 hymn melody).....having a hard time finding it
Anybody know where I might find it?So I'm looking for a particular melody to the hymn Magne Pater Augustine that I really liked when I first heard it. This hymn has at least three different plainchant...
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