Singing Candlemas – A guide
As we love anniversaries in our parish, Candlemas or The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the anniversary of …
Monthly Archives: January 2012
We are four today!!
The 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time marks our parish choir’s fourth birthday. We were formed after a particularly challenging, cold, …
Singing O Sacrum Convivium
There are so many wonderful polyphonic settings of the Corpus Christi Antiphon O Sacrum Convivium, some easier than others, um, …
Should we really sing the Gradual?
Switching from the Responsorial Psalm to the Gradual could be deemed controversial in many parishes. Despite the stipulation that the …
Introit for Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
In Years A and B for the third Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Introit is Dominus secus mare Galilaéae rather …
Brighton’s shocking proposed cuts to music service
Why can’t low income children learn a musical instrument in Brighton? Before Christmas, Brighton and Hove Council (run by the minority …
Seaford English Propers for 2nd and 3rd Sundays in Ordinary Time
Tom Haggar from St Thomas More, Seaford has kindly sent me his propers for the next eight weeks of Ordinary …
A year of Introits
Yesterday I opened my Graduale Triplex to look at the introit Omnis terra adoret for this Sunday, the second Sunday in …
Parish Book of Chant – 2nd edition
Richard Rice has uploaded to Musica Sacra the current draft of the second edition of the Parish Book of Chant. …
Epiphany at St James Spanish Place and the Gregorian Bocadito
As we Catholics love things to come in threes, especially at the Epiphany, I thought it was only appropriate that …
