Category Archives: Sacred Liturgy

How fast the chant?

How fast the chant? Posted by Jeffrey Tucker If you sing the chant too slowly, you lose the sense of the chant, you lose the meaning because the chant, the text, becomes less and less understandable.

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How fast the chant?

"He was alive!"

When I first viewed this profoundly distressing interview the first thing that struck after the deep look of guilt and regret on their faces was that the two on each side were obviously Hispanic, confirmed a few moments later when their names appeared.

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"He was alive!"

Ecclesia Institute Website: UPDATE

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Catholic liturgical music is serious, solemn, transcendent, but Catholic musicians are never more fun and inspiring than when they are talking about what they love most. This is what happens at sacred music events around the world: the social and intellectual are critically important elements.

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Ecclesia Institute Website: UPDATE

Words With Wings – Audio is Out

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Well, this is a moment we’ve dreamed about. Finally the audio CD of Words with Wings is out.

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That He may bide with you forever

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About the Chant Café Catholic liturgical music is serious, solemn, transcendent, but Catholic musicians are never more fun and inspiring than when they are talking about what they love most.

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That He may bide with you forever

Last Day to Book Room At Guaranteed Rate

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If you’re coming to the Sacred Music Colloquium and you’ve been putting off booking your room, don’t wait.

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How and why The Chant Café was in Wired

At the risk of looking like I am trying too hard to cling desperately to whatever fame I have recently garnered (which I would totally do), I thought I should tell this story for at least three reasons not having to do with my own narcissism:It’s funny (well, I think so). It demonstrates the value of modern technology for the spread of Sacred Music The article does not mention any of the other people involved in this sort of work, which makes me look like a either a hero (if you don’t know any better) or a publicity hog (if you do).

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Cafe on Google Plus

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Cafe on Google Plus Posted by Jeffrey Tucker It seems that Google Plus is really taking shape as a serious player in the world of social media. If you haven’t investigated it recently, you might take a look.The ChantCafe has a community that anyone can join and you are free to post there.

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Open Source Chant Mascot

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Catholic liturgical music is serious, solemn, transcendent, but Catholic musicians are never more fun and inspiring than when they are talking about what they love most. This is what happens at sacred music events around the world: the social and intellectual are critically important elements

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Open Source Chant Mascot

ChantCafe in Wired!

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Catholic liturgical music is serious, solemn, transcendent, but Catholic musicians are never more fun and inspiring than when they are talking about what they love most.

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ChantCafe in Wired!

The Kids’ Bulletin for Pentecost Sunday, May 19th, 2013

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Colloquium Registration Extended

Remember this video from the 2008 Colloquium? It just keeps getting better and better

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Colloquium Registration Extended

A Month-long Immersion in Chant, Philosophy, and Theology for Young Adults

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The CMAA is happy to announce a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in chant for five weeks with the Community of St.

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Is PBC 2.0 Backwards Compatible?

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A question appeared on this blog about the second edition of the Parish Book of Chant, regarding whether it works to have and use both simultaneously. The answer is that no contents of the 1st edition have been removed or changed in the 2nd edition only adds material such as litanies, sequences, hymn verses, and more ordinary chants.

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Is PBC 2.0 Backwards Compatible?

"Habemus Papam" said the Cardinal. We most certainly do!

Vatican City, 15 May 2013 (VIS) – This afternoon, the Holy See Press Office issued the following press release: “His Eminence Cardinal Keith Patrick O’Brien, archbishop emeritus of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, for the same reasons he decided not to participate in the last Conclave, and in agreement with the Holy Father, will be leaving Scotland for several months for the purpose of spiritual renewal, prayer, and penance.

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English Propers for Pentecost: Vigil and Mass of the Day

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We are now in the final week of the Easter Season and are closing in on the great feast of Pentecost.For Pentecost Sunday the Church gives us an optional but actual Saturday Vigil Mass (as opposed to the anticipated Mass that is often mistakenly called a “vigil”) which has a striking similarity to the Easter Vigil that took place some 50 days before.Following is a free download of the English proper chants for the Vigil Mass of Pentecost, including the extended Responsorial Psalmody, in addition to the antiphons for the Entrance, Offertory and Communion that are proper to this liturgy:PENTECOST SUNDAY: AT THE VIGIL MASS Parishes are perhaps more familiar with the Pentecost Mass of the Day, however, although most parishes have probably never sung the proper texts for this liturgy. Following is a free download of the propers for Pentecost Day, including the great Pentecost Sequence which sets the official English Lectionary translation of the Veni, Sancte Spiritus to the ancient chant melody from the Graduale Romanum:PENTECOST SUNDAY: AT THE MASS DURING THE DAY Both of these scores correspond to the Lumen Christi Missal, the first installment of the Lumen Christi Series.

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Lecture Series offered at Colloquium

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As an option for those who choose not to sing in a polyphony choir at this year’s Sacred Music Colloquium, Dr. Susan Treacy, professor of Music at Ave Maria University, will be offering an afternoon lecture series commemorating the 110th anniversary of the 1903 motu proprio on sacred music of Pope Saint Pius X

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A Psalm with its Antiphon? Or an Antiphon with its Psalm?

I’ve been wondering lately whether we give the Psalms full credit when considering the Propers.If you were to ask me, “What is a Proper?” I would answer, “It’s an antiphon–and some verses of a Psalm if you have time.”Two things have recently made me wonder if I’m not looking at the Propers from a 180 degree wrong angle.

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A Psalm with its Antiphon? Or an Antiphon with its Psalm?

Sunday’s Canonization Mass, St. Peter’s Square

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Sunday’s Canonization Mass, St.

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Pope Francis and the Liturgy

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Catholic liturgical music is serious, solemn, transcendent, but Catholic musicians are never more fun and inspiring than when they are talking about what they love most. This is what happens at sacred music events around the world: the social and intellectual are critically important elements

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