Online survey reveals "favorite" liturgical music

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pnewton:
You guys would love the way I do music. I transpose over half the stuff I do down, sometimes as much as three steps. I find it is an effective way to encourage participation.

(a couple of women think I carry it too far sometimes, though)
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How would you like to move to Montpelier, Ohio. We could sure use you.
 
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spiritblows:
Dear Confiter,
I’m sure that some authors of songs of yesteryear also were gay, I bet my bottom dollar. Some of them might have been child abusers, alcoholics, womanizers. Mozart was a known hedonist, yet his Requim Mass is famous. Michealangelo was also a known practising homosexual.

In short, I judge the song or artwork on it’s own merits, period.
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Sounds like history taken from the movies as opposed to the reality. One cannot seperate the art from the artist - that is irrational.
 
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MusicMan:
Or by obtaining an older copy of the Organ Accompaniement Book from Oregon Catholic Press. While some may find their contemporary hymns to be tasteless, their removal of older language (thee and thou) annoying, and their gender equity reworking absurd, at least the older OAB came with a lower key option for most hymns.
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Funny you should say that. I have an older accompanient book from them that went with an older hymnal. I noticed the same thing and frequently use it.

I know what you meant by taking a song too low, though. I have a system of checks and balances. My wife is a soprano. 😃
 
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pnewton:
Funny you should say that. I have an older accompanient book from them that went with an older hymnal. I noticed the same thing and frequently use it.

I know what you meant by taking a song too low, though. I have a system of checks and balances. My wife is a soprano. 😃
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Worship III has a supplemental organ book that has arrangements of the hymns in lower keys for many of the hymns. My music director uses it for some of the hymns that go up to E or have wide intervallic “jumps” to high notes.
 
I respect both the traditional Latin and the contemporary–they both are wonderful.

Until the church condemns such songs (which I don’t think will happen) they are perfectly suitable…I’m sure you all would cringe at the Voice as One hymnal we use at our church…
 
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Dubervilles:
I respect both the traditional Latin and the contemporary–they both are wonderful.

Until the church condemns such songs (which I don’t think will happen) they are perfectly suitable…I’m sure you all would cringe at the Voice as One hymnal we use at our church…
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Voice as One…I just cringe at the title, but it’s one I haven’t heard of. Is that another spawn of the Oregon Catholic Press?
 
Maybe the culprit is bad or nonexistent catechesis? The parents should teach their kids what the Church teaches, and priests should teach what the Church means by Sacred Music. (and Sacred Art, and anything else that has capital ‘S’ Sacred in front of it!) 😉
 
as a member of the “tweener” generation, (between the ruler busting and the bra burning nuns) I’m just sick at times at the music that is reduced to the lowest common denominator. What has happened to "our very best " when it comes to addoration. Haas and Mozart are hardly in the same league. Between the “pizza hut” churches (at the demise of glorious churches that were ransacked of all that is Holy to be more open ) and our dumbing down of music that is the laughing stock of all other religions, I am at times perplexed as to how it became this bad?
This is typical of the “…I am, therefore I must be capable of everything” attitudes that are rampant in the society of today. What happened to using the God given talents that have been bestowed upon each of us by our glorious Lord, and making the absolute best of them?

I am not a carpenter and know nothing about pew building, but I could demand that everyone have a shot at pew design. Have a seat?

…I find nothing more restful and contemplative than listening to 60’s has been music being twanged by a middleaged rock group for the glory of “them”.

Good idea at the “time”.
The 60’s are dead. Long live the 60’s.

It has been said that " if you’ve been kept in the dark and fed *hit your entire life , you begin to crave it."

Tradition is not a bad thing.
 
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