Society of Saint Gregory

Thank you all for the reminder of restraint at Advent and Lent - I had kept going willy nilly! For 'coming in' music we usually rehearse the psalm - again despite weekly practices - at the request of my nervous soloists! We do it quietly! Our pp has suggested we use the time before Mass to play over ...

Ta for your replies - I'll assume Mr Ballet won't mind - sure I wouldn't if I'd been dead for nearly 300 years!

Will try to include a washboard in setting1

Hey, you guys re psalms - get your own thread!!

Well I usually start off sessions with our local WI choir with some physical warm-ups - breathing and out to counts of six, then eight etc. Next, raising and dropping shoulders, then shoulder rolls. All this serves to encourage good posture, open up the 'column of air' to produce a good sound, and ...

Can anyone help, please? I have just nearly finished setting the text of the Lute-Book Lullaby for - hopefully- a performance at Christmas 2005 (I'm also a saddo who gets her Xmas cards in January!) The original text and music by one William Ballet (17C) are in OUP Carols for Choirs 1, arranged by ...

Firstly, many thanks for your replies and encouragement! Keep 'em coming! Hi Merseysider, been there and done that with diocesan liturgy commission - perhaps in future, there will be an opportunity!

Sorry, not yet used to this posting lark, so if another message comes out weird - sorry!!

Totally agreed with the quote - gregorian chant was, is and ever shall be a basis of good musical composition for the Church - subjective, I know!!

Hi Merseysider, Firstly, a big thank you for all your encouragement! I think we may have been at crossed purposes regarding my first paragraph - I was lamenting the lack of musical education/ choir/church schools in Italy, not this country - therefore lack of direction from Rome - if the South Bank ...

This is my first proper post, so with some trepidation, here goes! Around Christmas (cannot remember the date) I watched the South Bank Show about music education in schools, on which apparently the government is spending more. At the end of the programme, they gave a summary of church/choir schools ...

As I am only just over 5' tall, I frequently have problems seeing number boards! It is useful if a pp announces the hymn number and says the first line only, then part of the first line is played over (without the harmonies so that the tune is clearly heard - I have been told by members of the ...