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OutinChgoburbs
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You are assuming choir directors would care.
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joeysmom
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Hello:
This thread caught my eye. I do like Lord of the Dance as well as Marty Haugen and David Haas music, especially You are Mine. My least favorite would have to be Let There Be Peace on Earth :yup:
One time though during Mass, the pianist played Stairway to Heaven and I almost had a heart attack. I was in my 20’s at the time. I knew that was a no no so I had to tell her that was not a good choice for Mass.
Joey(name removed by moderator)
This thread caught my eye. I do like Lord of the Dance as well as Marty Haugen and David Haas music, especially You are Mine. My least favorite would have to be Let There Be Peace on Earth :yup:
One time though during Mass, the pianist played Stairway to Heaven and I almost had a heart attack. I was in my 20’s at the time. I knew that was a no no so I had to tell her that was not a good choice for Mass.
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CarolAnnSFO
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joey(name removed by moderator):
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Try “House of the Rising Sun” – I actually heard that one in my former parish.
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mpav
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I felt the same way, then I became confused about what a Protestant tone is, actually.
I love the hymn, “Sing of Mary” and was surprised to learn it had been written by an Anglican priest, albeit one with very Catholic tendencies. We use the English Catholic Hymnal and more than a few of the songs found there would have struck me as Protestant sounding once upon a time, yet some have joined my favorites. Let me direct you to “Best and Brightest” by George Rutler, in which the histories of nearly 100 hymns. It was quite an eye-opener.
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Jim
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Try “House of the Rising Sun” – I actually heard that one in my former parish.
House of the Rising Sun is a simple, pentatonic melody, so is I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing. I’ve heard both of these melodies with Amazing Grace lyrics sung to them! :whacky:
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CarolAnnSFO
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Sounds a little whacky, but I guess that’s better than the original lyrics! Unfortunately, when we heard “House of the Rising Sun” played as an instrumental, we were thinking of the orignal lyrics. :bigyikes:
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OutinChgoburbs
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Remember the Simpsons epsode where Bart changed the organist’s sheet music and the hymnals? The congregation was treated to the entire “In-A-Gad-Da-Da-Vida” originally by Iron Butterfly.
Sigh. I wonder if Bart and Homer had to put up with bad music when they went Vatican. Do you think they had to withstand “Gather Us In”?
Gather us in,
the Barts and the Homers,
gather us in,
with or without Marge.
Let us float down
that mystical river
all of us safe
on ol’ St. Peter’s barge.
Sigh. I wonder if Bart and Homer had to put up with bad music when they went Vatican. Do you think they had to withstand “Gather Us In”?
Gather us in,
the Barts and the Homers,
gather us in,
with or without Marge.
Let us float down
that mystical river
all of us safe
on ol’ St. Peter’s barge.
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LarryM
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Since the thread is drifting into song parodies … here is an exquisite one of an old standard that I found on another forum. 
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/contemporarycatholicmusic/message/13361
The original can be read at:Hi all,
It’s been kind of quiet here lately, so I hope a bit of
slightly-off-topic humor is welcome.
A while back there were some parodies of recent hymns posted here. Something got me thinking about them a few days ago, and having nothing better to do on my hour-long train ride to and from work, I thought, “Why not go old-school?” So I came up with the following treatment of “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee” (and, of course, couldn’t resist sharing it here). The text is not at all a reflection of my view of the hymn, but once I got going, it was hard to stop.
“Tearful, Tearful, We Implore Thee”
words by Chris Conroy, music by some dead guy
Tearful, tearful, we implore thee, please don’t make us sing this song;
If the music doesn’t bore thee, something in thy head is wrong.
Up and down the scale, repeating o’er and o’er and o’er again,
While the congregation’s pleading, “Please, O Lord, just make it end.”
Woeful, woeful, are the lyrics: mountains, flowers, clouds and birds;
Help me, Lord, I’m getting earaches just from thinking of the words.
Sun is shining, bells are ringing, childhood songs I now recall;
We might just as well be singing “It’s a small world after all.”
Painful, painful, is the tempo, crawling at a snail’s pace;
That old organist makes ‘lento’ look just like a NASCAR race.
Who said this would be uplifting? Sounds more like a fun’ral dirge;
Help me, Lord, I think I’m drifting off to sleep, must fight the urge.
Someone please inform this heathen: what makes Ludwig’s Ninth so great?
If that’s true, then why’d he even bother with the other eight?
Give me Schutte, Haas or Haugen, Ernest Sands or Joe Zsigray
Over Mister van Beethoven’s six-note clunker any day.
-Chris C.
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/contemporarycatholicmusic/message/13361
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OutinChgoburbs
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Actually, Joyful, Joyful is modern adaptation of the melody with new words.
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Affirmed
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That parody is a scream!!! I have some fellow musicians who I must show this to!! 
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Legatus
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The hymn Immaculate Mary was sung while my Aunt Mary’s coffin was being wheeled down the aisle at the end of her funeral Mass. No one mentioned it afterwards but I thought it was hilarious.
While on the subject, I can’t tolerate “How Great Thou art,” I’m an Anglican. We have great hymns, many translated from Latin and sung to Gregorian chant others sung to first rate tunes with descants and all. Forget all this Post Vatican II drivel! Get something like “The New English Hymnal” or some other good traditional Anglican hymnals like it. There is a lot of excellent Catholic theology in these hymnals and that incudes Eucharistic hymns and Marian hymns. The hymns composed for the Roman Catholic Post Vatican II Liturgy really have no theology to them at all and are so banal it made me gag just reading the postings on the past few pages. I hate to sound snobbish but I don’t know how you people can stand them.
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LarryM
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Good point. It’s another example of taking a great tune written for one purpose and changing lyrics to make a hymn.
The music was written in 1824. The religious text of Joyful Joyful was written in 1907 by Henry J. van Dyke.
But the original poem for which Beethoven composed the music was Ode To Joy, written by Frederich von Schiller and edited in 1785. The poem Ode To Joy has always struck me as being marginally Christian at best. E.g., it translates in part:
Joy, beautiful spark of the gods,
Daughter of Elysium,
We enter fire imbibed,
Heavenly, thy sanctuary.
Here is the full text of Ode To Joy in German:
mx.geocities.com/sergio_bolanos/original.htm
the English translation:
mx.geocities.com/sergio_bolanos/origin.htm
And more on it from Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_to_Joy
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Elzee
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Originally Posted by Bonnie
*No disrespect meant to Mother Mary, but the song Immaculate Mary has always bothered me. The way it’s usually sung, I feel like I’m being hit on the head every third note or so: im MAC ulate MARY, your PRAISES we SING. You REIGN now IN Heaven WITH Jesus our KING.The chorus is nice, tho!
**Ditto Bonnie! But you forgot, ‘Ave, Ave, Ave MarEEEEEia, Ave, Ave, Maria’.
*No disrespect meant to Mother Mary, but the song Immaculate Mary has always bothered me. The way it’s usually sung, I feel like I’m being hit on the head every third note or so: im MAC ulate MARY, your PRAISES we SING. You REIGN now IN Heaven WITH Jesus our KING.The chorus is nice, tho!
**Ditto Bonnie! But you forgot, ‘Ave, Ave, Ave MarEEEEEia, Ave, Ave, Maria’.
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OutinChgoburbs
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Now we’re in agreement. I can’t reach the notes on this one, it’s always pitched way too high. I unfortunately should be thinking about the Blessed Virgin during this one, and I have to wonder if dogs in the vicinity are howling because of the pitch.
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OutinChgoburbs
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This morning I was obliged to attend the Mass where we don’t have hymns to glorify God, but a performance by the Kumbaya Chorus. I sat between my husband, who was resentful of not going to another Mass, and a friend who is a musician. Not only were 2 of the hymns of the “praise us God, for being here” variety, and one a good old Protestant standard (thank you, John Newton). My musician friend was being driven insane by trying to sing along with everybody in the Kumbaya Chorus playing at their own tempo, and one totally off-key (trying for harmony?).
I could only think of the old show Petticoat Junction, and the Hooterville Band. They played one song, “Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight”, no matter the request, and always at a much slower tempo without any regard for the other musicians.
Yes, I know. These people volunteered to be up there. It is their gift to the parish. I have no room to criticize. I probably couldn’t do any better, morevoer probably worse. Still ::sigh:: it would be nice if…
I could only think of the old show Petticoat Junction, and the Hooterville Band. They played one song, “Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight”, no matter the request, and always at a much slower tempo without any regard for the other musicians.
Yes, I know. These people volunteered to be up there. It is their gift to the parish. I have no room to criticize. I probably couldn’t do any better, morevoer probably worse. Still ::sigh:: it would be nice if…
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Joe_Mariano
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Let there be Peace on Earth.
Ok until I get to…“and let it begin with me”.
Ok until I get to…“and let it begin with me”.
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y2daddy
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I should preface this by saying that I’ve spent the better part of the past 20 years in various Protestant churches, so my opinion probably doesn’t count. But I went to the Defending the Faith conference this summer in Steubenville, and the majority of songs they sang were the pop-rock worship songs that I’m getting at the Assembly of God church right now. I really wanted something different- that was the whole reason I was at the conference. I can go to a rock concert for a rock concert. When I do go to Mass, I want to go to Mass.
So anything by Hillsongs, Vineyard, Matt Redman, etc. are songs I like to listen to in my car, but not at Mass. I really missed Jim Cowan at that conference.
So anything by Hillsongs, Vineyard, Matt Redman, etc. are songs I like to listen to in my car, but not at Mass. I really missed Jim Cowan at that conference.
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aurora77
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I know what you mean!! Our Saturday night folks, God bless 'em, just aren’t that good and that’s the only Mass I can get to on the weekends. It doesn’t matter what they sing, it’s all painful. But, I’d be worse, I’m sure.
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