Pipe Organ: Ride On! Ride On in Majesty!

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If only we’d had this (or All Glory Laud and Honour) at mass this morning - I had to endure "Sing Hosanna 😦
 
The pipe organ is my favorite instrument; I love hearing it during Mass. Thank you for sharing.
 
OraLabora said:
Organ? On Palm Sunday?

:nope:
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I have never been to a mass on Palm Sunday that did not have an organ accompanying the choir.

Except maybe in the 70’s when they used piano, electric guitars and drums. Would that be better do you think? :rolleyes:
 
InThePew said:
If only we’d had this (or All Glory Laud and Honour) at mass this morning - I had to endure "Sing Hosanna 😦
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We have a recently arrived parishioner who has decided he doesn’t like Saturday evening Mass without singing so each week he chooses hymns he knows and leads us in singing them a capella. Last night he sang* All Glory Laud and Honour* for the Processional as that what is specifically listed in the Palm/Passion Sunday page in our hymnal. It was wonderful to have singing at that moment.
 
Phemie said:
We have a recently arrived parishioner who has decided he doesn’t like Saturday evening Mass without singing so each week he chooses hymns he knows and leads us in singing them a capella. Last night he sang* All Glory Laud and Honour* for the Processional as that what is specifically listed in the Palm/Passion Sunday page in our hymnal. It was wonderful to have singing at that moment.
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A volunteer cantor. Wow!

How do people feel about that? Would some prefer no hymns?
 
Phemie said:
We have a recently arrived parishioner who has decided he doesn’t like Saturday evening Mass without singing so each week he chooses hymns he knows and leads us in singing them a capella. Last night he sang* All Glory Laud and Honour* for the Processional as that what is specifically listed in the Palm/Passion Sunday page in our hymnal. It was wonderful to have singing at that moment.
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That must have been a beautiful moment. (I am assuming he can carry a tune if he is comfortable doing this.)
 
Irishmom2 said:
I have never been to a mass on Palm Sunday that did not have an organ accompanying the choir.

Except maybe in the 70’s when they used piano, electric guitars and drums. Would that be better do you think? :rolleyes:
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I’ve never been to one where there was an organ accompanying the choir. At the abbey where I usually attend Mass, the organ is silent from Ash Wednesday to Holy Thursday except for Laetare Sunday and the solemnities falling within Lent. The choir sings a cappella.

I also sing in a schola, and we have often sung at Palm Sunday at the cathedral. We always sing a cappella.

And in the Youtube video in the OP’s post, there’s no accompanying… it’s just the organ.
 
OraLabora said:
I’ve never been to one where there was an organ accompanying the choir. At the abbey where I usually attend Mass, the organ is silent from Ash Wednesday to Holy Thursday except for Laetare Sunday and the solemnities falling within Lent. The choir sings a cappella.

I also sing in a schola, and we have often sung at Palm Sunday at the cathedral. We always sing a cappella.

And in the Youtube video in the OP’s post, there’s no accompanying… it’s just the organ.
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Paschale Solemnitatis says that music, organ or whatever the parish uses, is only to be used to support singing during Lent and the Triduum. I do recall a time when there was no music after the Holy Thursday Gloria, and a “crécelle” (rattle) replaced the bells.
 
Beryllos said:
A volunteer cantor. Wow!

How do people feel about that? Would some prefer no hymns?
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Some probably would.
Irishmom2 said:
That must have been a beautiful moment. (I am assuming he can carry a tune if he is comfortable doing this.)
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He has a nice voice and I think in his culture it would be unthinkable to have Mass without singing. He’s from Africa (I’m embarrassed to say that I don’t know which country as I haven’t spoken to him yet) and he and other Africans also did a post-Communion hymn last week that I’ve heard them do at other times. They sing it from memory (I think the only hymn I know by heart is Silent Night) and the words are beautiful. You can tell they mean every word of it. I just called my friend to find out what it is but he can’t recall. He’ll call me back once he has a chance to ask his wife, who was also singing.
 
At the Palm Sunday Mass here we used Ride On! Ride On in Majesty! as the Entrance Hymn with an organ accompaniment.
 
TimothyH said:
I think Trent called for a return to the more traditional use of the harp. 😉

-Tim-
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Indeed.
1 Chronicles 15:28 New American Bible (Revised Edition)

Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with joyful shouting, to the sound of horns, trumpets, and cymbals, and the music of harps and lyres.
As you see, King David and all Israel praised the Lord with string instruments, horns, and percussion…

… not unlike a rock band, 😛 or jazz. 😉
 
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