Do you like this version of Holy Holy?

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This link has a well-known version of the song “Holy Holy Lord” played on organ. Do you like this version?
 
Only with those deep bass accords. 😉

And death to the PIANO!!!

Long live the ORGAN, TRUMPET and DRUMS!!!

(the snare and bass, not the set!!!)
 
It’s pretty, but the whole problem with the “Mass of Creation” in my opinion is that it is very Andrew Lloyd Webber/Phil Collins/Broadway. It makes me expect people dressed as cats or something to come dancing down the aisles.
 
Neil_Anthony said:
This link has a well-known version of the song “Holy Holy Lord” played on organ. Do you like this version?
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I’m not fond of the “Mass of Creation” at all. It’s never even done at my parish, actually. My dislike for this setting aside, I think that if it is done at a mass, I prefer to hear it on the organ. We used to do it often on the guitars when I was involved in the music at Newman Center masses in college since that mass and the Heritage mass where the only two masses available to us to use there and we weren’t well-versed enough at the time to realize there were more settings. On the guitars it always sounded a hoaky and corny- kind of 1970-ish. (And being in a room where all the decor was from the 1970s didn’t help it either. 😛 )

On a side note: We had a bride once who literally thought the “Mass of Creation” was called “The Massive Creation”. That’s how she wrote it down on the music sheet and how she called it when speaking to her.
 
bpbasilphx said:
The thing is–it’s one people know and will sing.
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That’s true, but when I used to cantor at a parish that did do this mass setting, people would complain about the music for the Lamb of God. Where you sing “You take away the sins of the world”, they think it’s too high. It really isn’t, but the way it is composed and then having a word like “the” on the top note can make it a little more difficult to sing for an untrained singer or one who sings in the bass voice. If the music was composed in a way that gradually brings the voice to the top note and has it on an easier word with a more open vowel, there wouldn’t be a problem singing it.
 
It’s ok. Even though the Mass I attend is in English, we sing this in Spanish and I like that better.
 
The best English version of the Sanctus is the Community Mass setting found in the Worship III hymnal. In fact, the whole setting (Gloria without repetitive refrain and a different Memorial Acclamation) is far superior to whatever Haugen wrote. It is also very easy to sing and you can even sing it acapella.

The Spanish versions of the parts of the Mass are tricky. Bob Hurd’s versions aren’t faithful to the text, nor are the ones labled “tradicional”. They take excessive liberties with the Gloria (omitting references to God the Father and even the Holy Name of Jesus Christ).
 
benedictgal said:
The best English version of the Sanctus is the Community Mass setting found in the Worship III hymnal.
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I would agree that the Richard Proulx “Community Mass” is a good setting. We do it often at my parish and the congregation, as well as the priests, sing it very well. The melody line is easy to negotiate for an untrained voice.
 
I’ve always loved this version, though it isn’t my all-time favorite. Still, to me it exudes reverence and awe.
 
Pro_Domina said:
Only with those deep bass accords. 😉

And death to the PIANO!!!
Long live the ORGAN, TRUMPET and DRUMS!!!

(the snare and bass, not the set!!!)
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Gee, thanks. 12 years of piano lessons down the toilet.

If my day could get any happier, I would be at a funeral.
 
Yes i love this version of the Sanctus, at mass last week we had some strange version of the Sanctus that sounded like some kiddie version, i’m not sure what “setting” it was. You know having all these different settings is so confusing to me, the mass i go to rotates cantors so the Sanctus, Lamb of God, and Gloria is different every few weeks.
 
Cat said:
Gee, thanks. 12 years of piano lessons down the toilet.

If my day could get any happier, I would be at a funeral.
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Aww, don’t worry… I happen to like the harpsichord…:rolleyes:

Anyways, I pretty much despise everything Haugen has ever done… except this one peice. I think it sounds good on the organ, although, like everything, it sounds like **** on folk guitars and little tambourines. It might be beause I’m so used to it, but i do like this Sanctus. I’ve heard much better ones, but this is okay.
 
I think in its intended use it is good, however my church uses it with basically a full on rock band in some Masses(Im talkin one mass that has two acoustic(the only saving grace) guitars, an upright bass, a piano, a drumset, and sometimes others including, but not limited to, flutes, trumpets, claranets, oboes, and violins.
 
reff said:
You know having all these different settings is so confusing to me, the mass i go to rotates cantors so the Sanctus, Lamb of God, and Gloria is different every few weeks.
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I don’t understand why the cantors would change the mass settings. The music choices are usually up to the music director or if no music director, then the organist/pianist and sometimes the pastor. I’ve cantored at numerous parishes for regular Sunday masses and never once did I have a choice in the music. The only time I’ve ever had a say was during a funeral should the family not have any requests for music, or during a wedding when the couple left it up to the musicians to choose all of the music or didn’t have a preference for any particular mass setting.

All that aside, I can understand getting confused with the settings changing constantly like that no matter who is deciding the music.
 
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