First one of its kind in about ten years!
Last time I had a New Year's Eve Wedding was at Holy Name (it was the daughter of a couple that sang in the gospel choir there). This time, it's at Sacred Heart.
Entrance: Prince of Denmark's March / Clarke
Psalm 128: O blessed are those who fear the Lord / Gelineau
Alleluia for Christmas Season / BMP, adapted from "Divinum Mysterium", Mode V
Offertory: Ave Maria / Schubert
Sanctus and Agnus: Mass for Christian Unity / Vermulst
Memorial: We proclaim your death, O Lord (Holy Angels Mass) / BMP
Dresden Amen
Communion: Panis Angelicus / Franck
Recessional: Trumpet Tune / Purcell
Peace,
BMP
Showing posts with label weddings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weddings. Show all posts
Monday, December 26, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS (Nice Day Edition)
Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time - July 17, 2011
Sacred Heart Church, West Warwick, Rhode Island
Sacred Heart Church, West Warwick, Rhode Island
Saturday's guest organist: my predecessor and good friend David Sylvester.
Reason for that: I, the proud papa, will be giving my daughter Jessica away in marriage that afternoon.
However, I will be in for the three Masses on Sunday (and a funeral Saturday morning)!
ORIEL: To the name of our salvation
O. Alstott: Lord you are good and forgiving
Mode VI: Alleluia (verse sung to tone 6F)
LLANFYLLIN: O Jesus, I have promised (This tune is "Llangoffan", but in a major key.)
J. Vermulst: People's Mass (Sanctus/Agnus)
Danish: When we eat this bread / Amen
G.B. Polleri: Ecce Panis Angelorum
ORIENTIS PATRIBUS: Conquering kings their titles take
DARWALL'S 148th: Ye holy angels bright
Peace,
BMP
Reason for that: I, the proud papa, will be giving my daughter Jessica away in marriage that afternoon.
However, I will be in for the three Masses on Sunday (and a funeral Saturday morning)!
ORIEL: To the name of our salvation
O. Alstott: Lord you are good and forgiving
Mode VI: Alleluia (verse sung to tone 6F)
LLANFYLLIN: O Jesus, I have promised (This tune is "Llangoffan", but in a major key.)
J. Vermulst: People's Mass (Sanctus/Agnus)
Danish: When we eat this bread / Amen
G.B. Polleri: Ecce Panis Angelorum
ORIENTIS PATRIBUS: Conquering kings their titles take
DARWALL'S 148th: Ye holy angels bright
Peace,
BMP
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS (Triple Trouble!)
Sacred Heart Church, West Warwick, Rhode Island
Wedding Mass - 3 PM - Saturday, June 11, 2011
First wedding Mass for me in about four years! And the couple was very easy to deal with. The two requests they had I was able to fulfill. I ran through choices on everything else and almost everything I used was the first thing I played for them in each category. So, here goes!
Prince of Denmark's March / Clarke
Canon in D / Pachelbel (the only bullet I'm really biting - the Taco Bell Cannon, or Sominex Canon)
The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord / BMP
Alleluia / "O Filii" and Tone 2D, arr. BMP
Ave Maria / Schubert
Messa 'Cristo Riscuciti' / Picchi
Come, my way, my truth, my life / "The Call"
Joyful, joyful, we adore thee / "Hymn to Joy"
Trumpet Tune / Purcell
Pentecost Vigil and Sunday - June 11/12, 2011
Sat. 5 PM; Sun. 7:30, 9, and 11:15
Come, Holy Ghost/ Lambillotte
Gloria (Pope Paul VI) / Connor
Lord, send out your Spirit / "Respond and Acclaim", Alstott
Veni, Sancte Spiritus / Pentecost Sequence, in Latin (Sunday only)
Alleluia / "O Filii" and Tone 2D, arr. BMP
Fire of God, undying flame / Nun komm, der heiden heiland
Sanctus/Agnus (Cristo Riscuciti) / Picchi
Spirit seeking light and beauty / "Dohmnach Trionoide"
Regina Caeli / Mode VI
Now thank we all our God / "Nun Danket"
Most Holy Trinity - June 18/19, 2011
Sat. 5 PM; Sun. 7:30, 9, and 11:15
Come now, almighty King / "Italian Hymn"
Gloria (Pope Paul VI) / Connor
Glory and praise for ever/Alleluia / both from "Respond and Acclaim", Alstott
Holy, holy, holy / "Nicaea"
Sanctus/Agnus (People's) / Vermulst
When we eat this bread/Amen / Danish
De Trinitate / Tune: Anon.; Text: Adam of St. Victor (found in the Pius X Hymnal)
Jesus, my Lord, my God, my All / "Sweet Sacrament"
O God, almighty Father / "Gott Vater, sei Gepriesen"
Peace,
BMP
Wedding Mass - 3 PM - Saturday, June 11, 2011
First wedding Mass for me in about four years! And the couple was very easy to deal with. The two requests they had I was able to fulfill. I ran through choices on everything else and almost everything I used was the first thing I played for them in each category. So, here goes!
Prince of Denmark's March / Clarke
Canon in D / Pachelbel (the only bullet I'm really biting - the Taco Bell Cannon, or Sominex Canon)
The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord / BMP
Alleluia / "O Filii" and Tone 2D, arr. BMP
Ave Maria / Schubert
Messa 'Cristo Riscuciti' / Picchi
Come, my way, my truth, my life / "The Call"
Joyful, joyful, we adore thee / "Hymn to Joy"
Trumpet Tune / Purcell
Pentecost Vigil and Sunday - June 11/12, 2011
Sat. 5 PM; Sun. 7:30, 9, and 11:15
Come, Holy Ghost/ Lambillotte
Gloria (Pope Paul VI) / Connor
Lord, send out your Spirit / "Respond and Acclaim", Alstott
Veni, Sancte Spiritus / Pentecost Sequence, in Latin (Sunday only)
Alleluia / "O Filii" and Tone 2D, arr. BMP
Fire of God, undying flame / Nun komm, der heiden heiland
Sanctus/Agnus (Cristo Riscuciti) / Picchi
Spirit seeking light and beauty / "Dohmnach Trionoide"
Regina Caeli / Mode VI
Now thank we all our God / "Nun Danket"
Most Holy Trinity - June 18/19, 2011
Sat. 5 PM; Sun. 7:30, 9, and 11:15
Come now, almighty King / "Italian Hymn"
Gloria (Pope Paul VI) / Connor
Glory and praise for ever/Alleluia / both from "Respond and Acclaim", Alstott
Holy, holy, holy / "Nicaea"
Sanctus/Agnus (People's) / Vermulst
When we eat this bread/Amen / Danish
De Trinitate / Tune: Anon.; Text: Adam of St. Victor (found in the Pius X Hymnal)
Jesus, my Lord, my God, my All / "Sweet Sacrament"
O God, almighty Father / "Gott Vater, sei Gepriesen"
Peace,
BMP
Thursday, April 14, 2011
WEDDING MUSIC
Q: What does a polygamist sing at his wedding?
A: The Anne Murray classic, of course: Can I have this dance with the rest of my wives?
Now, now, did I say this discussion was going to be serious?????!!!!!
Peace,
BMP
A: The Anne Murray classic, of course: Can I have this dance with the rest of my wives?
Now, now, did I say this discussion was going to be serious?????!!!!!
Peace,
BMP
Sunday, February 13, 2011
BRIDEZILLA THE BARBARIAN
RSCT (for those who forgot what that is, "Red Sox Cap Tip") to Argent:
As I pasted the "embed" link to this, I can't get over the length of the code used to embed, compared to YouTube. Anyhoo...
I, like Argent, have been pretty lucky in not having too many "bridezillas" at the Wedding Mass. I've had many more struggles with funeral music than with weddings. I think the last time I wanted to strangle someone over music is when I was up in a choir loft (circa 1984), and a guitarist was downstairs by the altar. The guitarist was lucky of the distance between her and me in the church as I wanted so desperately to take the guitar and wrap it around her freakin' neck. Her song at Communion: "Up Where We Belong", from An Officer and a Gentleman. Now any time the song comes on the radio, I can't change the station fast enough!
As for the funeral struggles, Argent mentioned how people will ask for inappropriate music and then mention that they've worshipped here for x-amount of decades, and other useless "blah, blah, blah!" My former pastor from the "roundhouse" I once played would excuse such bad music by telling me that they're "good Catholic people." AH HA! So I guess that excuses them from proper catechesis?
Peace,
BMP
I, like Argent, have been pretty lucky in not having too many "bridezillas" at the Wedding Mass. I've had many more struggles with funeral music than with weddings. I think the last time I wanted to strangle someone over music is when I was up in a choir loft (circa 1984), and a guitarist was downstairs by the altar. The guitarist was lucky of the distance between her and me in the church as I wanted so desperately to take the guitar and wrap it around her freakin' neck. Her song at Communion: "Up Where We Belong", from An Officer and a Gentleman. Now any time the song comes on the radio, I can't change the station fast enough!
As for the funeral struggles, Argent mentioned how people will ask for inappropriate music and then mention that they've worshipped here for x-amount of decades, and other useless "blah, blah, blah!" My former pastor from the "roundhouse" I once played would excuse such bad music by telling me that they're "good Catholic people." AH HA! So I guess that excuses them from proper catechesis?
Peace,
BMP
Sunday, September 27, 2009
A NEW WAY TO GET A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP...
...and change your outlook on liturgy for good!
It's the amazing SNARK-O-PEDIC!
Listen to how this bed can help your inner nutcase. BTW, you'll hear a snippet of Salve Regina being chanted a cappella. See if you can guess which TWO BLOGGERS are chanting!
Peace,
BMP
It's the amazing SNARK-O-PEDIC!
Listen to how this bed can help your inner nutcase. BTW, you'll hear a snippet of Salve Regina being chanted a cappella. See if you can guess which TWO BLOGGERS are chanting!
Peace,
BMP
Monday, June 2, 2008
A TALE OF TWO WEDDING MARCHES
Yes, I'm talking about Wagner's Bridal Chorus (Here comes the bride, big fat and wide...) and Mendelssohn's Wedding March (from a Midsummer Night's Hallucination).
Gary Penkala at CanticaNOVA Publications has a very good take on these two marches and why they're discouraged in many parishes, and even disallowed in some. I usually try to discourage it, and I have in my last three parishes with a 95% success rate. I've very rarely had to bite the bullet with this one (DAG NABBIT! If I was only so lucky at funerals with discouraging Beagle's Things, Be Not Afraid, How Great Thou Art, and Gentle Woman!).
In fact, the rubrics call for the Entrance Song - yes, something sung by the congregation, as opposed to the big march (my most popular option for marches, btw, is putting the Clarke Trumpet Voluntary, aka The Prince of Denmark's March, and the Purcell Trumpet Tune at the front and back ends of the Mass respectively). I rarely get to enjoy the hymn option, though I've had a couple of instances where I've gotten to do BOTH - the march while the party is processing, then the hymn as the couple approaches the edge of the sanctuary (or in some cases, the altar rail).
The late Fr. Rene Gagne, who I worked with for 6-1/2 of the eight years I was at Precious Blood Church, was a big opera buff who would not think twice about travelling from Woonsocket, RI to New York City to see a good opera. I can't remember which opera, Wagner's and/or Mendelssohn's, but Fr. Gagne did mention to me that in at least one of them, the bride featured in the respective march was a prostitute. I often use that defense for my discouraging the two. But now with Mr. Penkala's reference to the groom in the Mendelssohn turning into a jackass, now I think I might have some more clout! Thanks, Gary! :)
Peace,
BMP
PS: I say all this with all due respect to Felix Mendelssohn, who has excellent sacred works in his catalog.
Gary Penkala at CanticaNOVA Publications has a very good take on these two marches and why they're discouraged in many parishes, and even disallowed in some. I usually try to discourage it, and I have in my last three parishes with a 95% success rate. I've very rarely had to bite the bullet with this one (DAG NABBIT! If I was only so lucky at funerals with discouraging Beagle's Things, Be Not Afraid, How Great Thou Art, and Gentle Woman!).
In fact, the rubrics call for the Entrance Song - yes, something sung by the congregation, as opposed to the big march (my most popular option for marches, btw, is putting the Clarke Trumpet Voluntary, aka The Prince of Denmark's March, and the Purcell Trumpet Tune at the front and back ends of the Mass respectively). I rarely get to enjoy the hymn option, though I've had a couple of instances where I've gotten to do BOTH - the march while the party is processing, then the hymn as the couple approaches the edge of the sanctuary (or in some cases, the altar rail).
The late Fr. Rene Gagne, who I worked with for 6-1/2 of the eight years I was at Precious Blood Church, was a big opera buff who would not think twice about travelling from Woonsocket, RI to New York City to see a good opera. I can't remember which opera, Wagner's and/or Mendelssohn's, but Fr. Gagne did mention to me that in at least one of them, the bride featured in the respective march was a prostitute. I often use that defense for my discouraging the two. But now with Mr. Penkala's reference to the groom in the Mendelssohn turning into a jackass, now I think I might have some more clout! Thanks, Gary! :)
Peace,
BMP
PS: I say all this with all due respect to Felix Mendelssohn, who has excellent sacred works in his catalog.
Monday, August 28, 2006
CHRISTUS VINCIT PODCASTING 44
You can listen below, or save the file by clicking here. (31:20/14.3 MB)
(I just bought a new mic, but I'm still making adjustments. So bear with me.)What is a bench fee, and why is it highly supported by parish organists? This pertains primarily to funerals and weddings.
Feasts for the week: St. Augustine of Hippo; Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist
Music List: Twenty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time (We finished our third and final consecutive week of Taste and See as the responsorial Psalm)
Music:
Sanctus XVIII (Chant); Ubi Caritas (Chant, Mode VI)
Grand Frere, by Pierre Journel, courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network
Commercials: Going Fourth; iPadre Podcast and Videocast; Disciples with Microphones
Christus Vincit Sports: Shamus talks about the slumping Red Sox and wishes he had steroids. Blogs mentioned: The New Liturgical Movement, Catholic Caveman
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Receiving the Holy Eucharist edition (encore from Podcast #12), brought to you by Inflatable Church
Thank you for your Podcast Alley votes this month. 14 is most votes in one month in Christus Vincit history!
Closing notes, a plug for my parish by the author of The Reform of the Reform?, and we read some feedback from our listeners.
Christus Vincit Sports: Shamus talks about the slumping Red Sox and wishes he had steroids. Blogs mentioned: The New Liturgical Movement, Catholic Caveman
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Receiving the Holy Eucharist edition (encore from Podcast #12), brought to you by Inflatable Church
Thank you for your Podcast Alley votes this month. 14 is most votes in one month in Christus Vincit history!
Closing notes, a plug for my parish by the author of The Reform of the Reform?, and we read some feedback from our listeners.
Vote at Podcast Alley / Message Board / Subscribe at iTunes
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