Traditional Music for Mass

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Deo_Gratias42 said:
I am serious. 15 minutes, eh? Our priest informed us before Mass it was a “longer tract, about 5 minutes” and an “excellent opportunity to meditate”. I though that was a long 5 minutes.
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It still might have been close to 5 minutes. My schola director says that if you sing it at a good pace for chant, according to the solemes method, it should only take about 7 minutes. So you still might have only been there close to 5 minutes. Maybe he just didn’t want to scare everyone!
 
superamazingman said:
It still might have been close to 5 minutes. My schola director says that if you sing it at a good pace for chant, according to the solemes method, it should only take about 7 minutes. So you still might have only been there close to 5 minutes. Maybe he just didn’t want to scare everyone!
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I think he just doesn’t have a good sense of time. His announcements are also most as long as his sermons.
 
superamazingman said:
It still might have been close to 5 minutes. My schola director says that if you sing it at a good pace for chant, according to the solemes method, it should only take about 7 minutes. So you still might have only been there close to 5 minutes. Maybe he just didn’t want to scare everyone!
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The abbey I am affiliated with is part of the Solesmes congregation and our choirmaster is a former choirmaster at Solesmes. I’ve timed the tract on a couple of occasions (it is chanted every year) and the best time was just over 14 minutes.

I think it would be a major challenge for the average parish choir.
 
OraLabora said:
The abbey I am affiliated with is part of the Solesmes congregation and our choirmaster is a former choirmaster at Solesmes. I’ve timed the tract on a couple of occasions (it is chanted every year) and the best time was just over 14 minutes.

I think it would be a major challenge for the average parish choir.
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Maybe I misheard him then. 🙂
 
Deo_Gratias42 said:
Since you can’t have a catholic funeral with Eagles Wings, I recommend the tract from the the first Sunday in Lent from the 1962 missal. It’s psalm 90
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It would be a Catholic funeral with “Eagle’s Wings”. That is not the problem. The problem is that instead of looking alternately at the ceiling and his watch as he had at countless previous funerals while he endured that hated song, this time the deceased would knock the cover off of his casket in order to stoutly confirm that not even over his dead body does he* ever* want to hear that song again!! 😃

Song selections don’t have to be in Latin, although he did study Latin throughout high school. Songs just need to be something he might have heard in childhood and would have selected for his own father’s funeral. I’m looking for sentimental favorites, I guess.
 
EasterJoy said:
It would be a Catholic funeral with “Eagle’s Wings”. That is not the problem. The problem is that instead of looking alternately at the ceiling and his watch as he had at countless previous funerals while he endured that hated song, this time the deceased would knock the cover off of his casket in order to stoutly confirm that not even over his dead body does he* ever* want to hear that song again!! 😃

Song selections don’t have to be in Latin, although he did study Latin throughout high school. Songs just need to be something he might have heard in childhood and would have selected for his own father’s funeral. I’m looking for sentimental favorites, I guess.
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There was a typo in what I posted. It should have said, “It WOULDN’T be a catholic funeral without Eagles Wings.” I wasn’t suggesting the actual song, but rather the psalm it loosely based off of in haunting gregorian chant.
 
Nothing written after 1960…

However, I am entranced by Steven Janco’s “In paradisum”. It has become the hymn of choice as the casket leaves the altar. Either I sing and play it, or the cantor and I sing it together with an organ voicing. It is the exception to my desire/rule.
 
I don’t care for the “full” version. I prefer only one voice and “piano”/organ for the hymn version.
 
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