Too many people crossing the LCWR screen who are supposedly representing the Catholic church aren’t representing the church with any reasonable sense of product identity.
Cardinal Levada in an interview in the NCR.
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Friday, 15 June 2012
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Exams...
Tis the week of internal exams.
My list of spelling ishoos
accompaniment
clarinet
trombone
trumpet
cymbals
Parcell (Purcell) To be fair there were a couple of spelling of his name around during his lifetime.
but no Handle, chello or orcestra yet.
Two people think F minor has five flats
and one cellist cannot transcribe from tenor to bass clef. Tss.
We won't mention what 'Andante non tanto quasi moderato,' means, which is what Tchaikovsky wrote at the start of the Romeo and Juliet overture. How indecisive! Why not write minim = a number and be done with it. The syllabus says you have to be able to define it, so there we are.
My list of spelling ishoos
accompaniment
clarinet
trombone
trumpet
cymbals
Parcell (Purcell) To be fair there were a couple of spelling of his name around during his lifetime.
but no Handle, chello or orcestra yet.
Two people think F minor has five flats
and one cellist cannot transcribe from tenor to bass clef. Tss.
We won't mention what 'Andante non tanto quasi moderato,' means, which is what Tchaikovsky wrote at the start of the Romeo and Juliet overture. How indecisive! Why not write minim = a number and be done with it. The syllabus says you have to be able to define it, so there we are.
Sunday, 10 June 2012
Reductio ad absurdum
Back in the heady days of the late 80s when I went to university it was to study Maths and lots of it and one of those handy methods of proving stuff was by Reductio ad absurdum
In answer to something someone (OK the Editor of y'know) had put on twitter suggesting that there would be more vocations to female religious orders if married priest were allowed <- non sequitur? Someone suggested that if we could have married priests then we should have married nuns also. (That was meant as a joke, btw.)
Ha. Have we got to the absurd bit yet? The great thing with Maths is you know when you get 43=72 that you've got to the end and you get to chuckle and write, 'hence blah blah blah not true.'
The trouble with the modern crazy age is however absurd, it just goes on an on getting more absurd and not everyone gets when you are chuckling.
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Gregorian hymns supplement
As usual, Clare has gone to the trouble of writing down what was said to us into a blogpost.
I would add that the repertoire of hymns provides an invaluable window, gateway, doorway or whatever you like into Catholic thinking and music. You get great melodies, beautiful beautiful words and some of the best stuff that most people can sing if they want to or at least music that is not going to drive people nuts when they are at Mass. Also, I have had a number of conversations with people who are really very moved when you tell them just how old the music and words are. They are very chuffed to have access to the music. And why not. We are Catholics and it's our culture.
Looking for a hymn honouring The Blessed Sacrament? Why on earth would you not want to sing Adoro te devote. Words by um someone quite good on such stuff. Anything in Mode V sounds major to our 21stC ears so is very palatable indeed.
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I would add that the repertoire of hymns provides an invaluable window, gateway, doorway or whatever you like into Catholic thinking and music. You get great melodies, beautiful beautiful words and some of the best stuff that most people can sing if they want to or at least music that is not going to drive people nuts when they are at Mass. Also, I have had a number of conversations with people who are really very moved when you tell them just how old the music and words are. They are very chuffed to have access to the music. And why not. We are Catholics and it's our culture.
Looking for a hymn honouring The Blessed Sacrament? Why on earth would you not want to sing Adoro te devote. Words by um someone quite good on such stuff. Anything in Mode V sounds major to our 21stC ears so is very palatable indeed.
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Location:Home in the rain
Saturday, 9 June 2012
To St Cecilia's
All good fun.
The beautifully tended roses are out and smelling gorgeous. Roses are my favourite flowers by miles. So sunny was it that some of us had an ice cream on the way home.
So, no LMS Conference for me, but I think it's great that there are lots of things going on. Be a sad thing if there was only one Catholic event on at any one time.
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The beautifully tended roses are out and smelling gorgeous. Roses are my favourite flowers by miles. So sunny was it that some of us had an ice cream on the way home.
So, no LMS Conference for me, but I think it's great that there are lots of things going on. Be a sad thing if there was only one Catholic event on at any one time.
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Location:Ryde, Isle of Wight
Friday, 8 June 2012
Postcard time
Fr Ray has a post about posting a postcard to the Holy Father.
We're off to St Cecilia's tomorrow, so I think I'll be sending him greetings from the schola from there.
Otherwise it's
benedictxvi@vatican.va
I believe.
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We're off to St Cecilia's tomorrow, so I think I'll be sending him greetings from the schola from there.
Otherwise it's
benedictxvi@vatican.va
I believe.
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Location:Home, sheltering from the wind.
Corpus Christ - the aftermath
I went for C# in the end for Lauda Sion and it was fine and quite brisk. No point hanging around when you have 24 verses to sing. I notice from The Chant Café, that they went for a D in Rome. Good for them.
After a procession round the church, outdoors being a little too exciting weather wise, and Benediction, it was off to the after party in an, Mm,garden structure. 14 people round a table in candlelight, very snug.
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After a procession round the church, outdoors being a little too exciting weather wise, and Benediction, it was off to the after party in an, Mm,garden structure. 14 people round a table in candlelight, very snug.
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Location:Home
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