Alright Classical music lovers, who here loves Baroque?

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Alan, you’re my kind of organist/cantor. It is NOT out of line to expose the congregation to the great music of their past instead of the “sacro-pop”/“muppet music” of their reality. You go guy!
 
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brotherhrolf:
Alan, you’re my kind of organist/cantor. It is NOT out of line to expose the congregation to the great music of their past instead of the “sacro-pop”/“muppet music” of their reality. You go guy!
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Funny you should mention muppets. I recently treated my children to classic muppets, as I “came into” a video file. It’s posted for the moment at wordsfree.org/mahnamahna.mpg.

Alan
 
I love Baroque music. In fact, there is a Baroque orchestra, Musica Angelica, that a friend and I attend almost monthly. They use all the period instruments and beatutiful music. We even saw pieces played for three or even more harpsicords…all in one room. AMAZING! :yup:
 
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brotherhrolf:
Alan, you’re my kind of organist/cantor. It is NOT out of line to expose the congregation to the great music of their past instead of the “sacro-pop”/“muppet music” of their reality. You go guy!
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I feel the same way, luckily the cantor/organist at my church plays the old stuff.
 
Pentecost is my favorite holiday,musically and spiritually!!

Come, Holy Ghost on a pipe organ! Very simple, maybe a dozen stops total, plus a few couplers. Two 16’ pedal stops. swell and crescendo pedals.

Yippee!

In another church, on a very nice simulated pipe organ with swell, great and crescendo pedals and two 32’ pedal stops. Oh, yeah. That just adds that nice low floor that often escapes conscious notice but never gets past the subconscious of the crowd. When they hear it again at some great cathedral, they will be programmed to musically align with it and it brings unity across parishes and constancy over time.

In other words, when I hear this stuff every year, I remember when I was in grade school in the 1960’s and played the exact same stuff and it gave me the same goose bumps.

At least two or three times a year I have to get in Praise To The Lord.

Alan
 
Oh, overall I detest the Contemporary Christian Music genre. There is exactly one artist I like who is classified as CCM genre only because there is none other that comes any closer, because he does sing about God. It is the late Rich Mullins, known by many as the author of “Awesome God,” who died in a horrible car accident the day before he was to receive his first Holy Communion.

As far as I’m concerned, there is Rich and then there are all the others, some more monotonous and undecipherable than others.

The following is probably interesting only if you know the Rich Mullins song “Sing your Praise to the Lord.” All others are welcome to either tune out or read on…

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Anyway, the other day I noticed that the song “Sing Your Praise to the Lord” that made him most of his money (he probably gave more charity concerts than paid) and for which he was ambivalent (Amy Grant ruined it because she edited out the wonderful Biblical interlude in the middle that is his favorite part, but the royalties are very nice), has a peculiar resemblance to “Praise to the Lord” played backwards, for about the first few measures.

Alan
 
baroque and classical music here.

gregory chant sounds great too.
 
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baroque and classical music here.

gregory chant sounds great too.
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never did learn about chant. heard maybe glimpses, not enough to know what it does
 
I have a beautiful new CD of Vivaldi “Gloria”. it contains wait for it…“Gloria”, “Dixit Dominus” and “Magnificat”.

The stunning choir of King’sCollege, Cambridge and the Academy of Ancient Music have made this magnificent recording.:tiphat:

Does anyone have much knowledge on Luigi Boccherini? I adored “La Musica Notturna Delle Strade Di Madrid” No. 6, Op.30 :love: which I first heard whilst watching “Master and Commander” at the cinema.
 
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lyoncoeur:
Baroque is indeed VERY nice, but I actually prefer earlier music, think Morely, Dowland, Byrd.
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I have a very nice CD of “Phillipe Verdelot:The Complete Madrigal Book of 1536.”.

Thomas Morley and Dowland are jolly but I find Bryd ‘come to me grief, forever’ and ‘Come, woeful Orpheus’ pretty heavy going:crying:
 
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AlanFromWichita:
never did learn about chant. heard maybe glimpses, not enough to know what it does
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you can search “gregorian chant mp3” on google and download some. I forget where I downloaded my copy(very low quality) but the link is certainly somewhere in this forum
 
Alan when my cathedral parish celebrated its 200th anniversary in 1992, we commissioned our new organ “Providence” in addition to rebuilding the choir loft (yay!). We had the cardinal archbishop of Lyon France in attendance and he brought his organist (Thierry ?) with him. He did an improvisation on Come Holy Ghost/Veni Creator Spiritus that SHOOK the building. The only thing that was missing were the trumpet pipes which were installed the following year.

We sing a good bit of Gregorian chant as a choral prelude before Mass. During Lent the parish chants the Kyrie, Sanctus, Great Amen, and Agnus Dei. The cardnial archbishop gave the apostolic blessing in Latin but only a few people in the congregation and the choir knew the proper responses.
 
Oh, yeah. For all you Vivaldi fans out there, Angel records has a 7CD collection of Vivaldi’s choral music. Some of it is OK but a good bit of it is stunning.
 
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brotherhrolf:
Alan when my cathedral parish celebrated its 200th anniversary in 1992, we commissioned our new organ “Providence” in addition to rebuilding the choir loft (yay!). We had the cardinal archbishop of Lyon France in attendance and he brought his organist (Thierry ?) with him. He did an improvisation on Come Holy Ghost/Veni Creator Spiritus that SHOOK the building. The only thing that was missing were the trumpet pipes which were installed the following year.
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Oh, yeah! I’d like to see one of those guys with loud rap music in their car compete with THAT! They could probably park in front of an open door and go “boom boom” and rattle their license plates off without anybody inside noticing them. :bounce: Poor things; they just don’t know what real sound power is. :cool:

My favorite music ever was the opening Mass of the third synod of Wichita, begun by Bishop Eugene Gerber and completed by Bishop Thomas Olmstead, for which I was the lamp carrier for my deanery. It was still the tail end of the Christmas season and there was a pipe organ playing in the Cathedral (the organ console has five full size keyboards) along with a small orchestra including brass, timpany, strings, a few winds and other miscellaneous probably 15-20 total, and a choir, all packed into a small loft.

All this, and then playing traditional Christmas hymns, with all the verses, with every verse a different arrangement. The musician there at St. Mary Cathedral is very talented at this sort of blowout! When I heard that music, plus some instrumental classics, my eyes dripped to the floor for minutes at a time.

Alan
 
My favorite was the Christmas concert our choir did in conjunction with the LSU Collegium. All medieval and renaissance music. We processed in, in candlelight to Personet Hodie with recorder, crumhorn, shawm, portative organ and bells. Our cathedral has hammer vaults and they were hung with red and green banners. Our choir robes were white albs with hoods - very, very medieval.
 
I love Vivaldi and Handel. Am I the only one who listens to Handel’s Messiah all year round?
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It’s a little off topic, but who here hates Copeland besides me? Seems some people think I’m crazy when I say that, but I really just don’t like his music. It’s boring. It’s dull.
 
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