Gather IV is designed to meet the needs of the modern pastoral musician
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Category: Music: Mass settings
New Music Review: Mass in Honor of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne
Stylistically sound and musically satisfying, Joncas’s latest setting of the 2010 Revised Order of the Mass offers dignified music for liturgical prayer. Reminiscent of some of
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Poll Results: Advent Mass Setting
Tthe top four responses are all unmetered chant.
Read moreCloud Hymnal — a New, Digital Worship Resource and Music Tool
Cloud Hymnal is a multifaceted worship resource that includes, for example, an ever-growing library of new and old sacred music. Some music is newly composed by the Center for Music and Liturgy at St Thomas More, and some music is newly contributed by other members of the Cloud Hymnal. Additionally, there are 25,000 public domain sacred works offered. The music is easily searched and then shared online or printed.
Read moreChanting the texts of the liturgy, from Tim O’Malley at Church Life
Tim O’Malley has a fascinating opinion piece over at Church Life today. He’s in favor of chant, not instead of hymnody, but instead of reading.
Read moreChurch Music across History, part II
Are there resources out there that feature music from the seventeenth-century, for example, or which provide samples from across church history?
Read moreReading suggestions for history of church music?
A colleague of mine at Villanova University is putting together a course on church history and as part of this course she wants to give attention to the history of music used in / for worship. She and I are looking for suggestions for texts that address this topic. Please share your ideas here on PT.
Read moreCRCCM Composition Contest Results Announced
The winning antiphons were performed at the annual meeting of the Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians, January 4 – 8, held at Saint Joseph Cathedral in Hartford, CT and Saint Michael the Archangel Cathedral, Springfield, MA.
Read moreOpening Rites at Mass with Pope in Kenya
Look what happens in the dance between the opening Collect and the First Reading.
Read more“Don’t Forget”: The Pope’s Final Mass in Philadelphia
All in all, “don’t forget” are some pretty fine words with which to end such a visit. I know that Pope John Paul’s visit to Chicago in the late 1970’s is still part of this city’s collective memory. I hope that in a similar way, the American Church will have a hard timing forgetting Francis’ visit.
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