I'm sensing a market.....

[oopsorganist]

............. for a nice simple CD of Mass parts for the simple parish new translations.

[gwyn]

Be assured Oops, if there's money to be made then it'll appear fairly early on the scene. There'll be new hymn books at some point too, which will include settings of the new translation, some of which will be terrible! But there'll be a the odd delight too I'm sure..

[oopsorganist]

I just want the odd delight.

[quaeritor]

Be assured Oops, if there's money to be made then it'll appear fairly early on the scene. There'll be new hymn books at some point too, which will include settings of the new translation, some of which will be terrible! But there'll be a the odd delight too I'm sure..

. . and you can bet there won't be small supplements containing some selected settings - it'll be the whole thundering great tome including all the stuff you've got already, and costing about thirty-odd quid a time - and hotly followed by a well known competitor's offering with "even more new settings of things you'll never sing anyway" - and then the original front runner responds with "yet more settings that you didn't even know you didn't want to sing anyway".

I accept the right of an individual to wish to make a living in the service of Our Lord ("Dignus est operarius . . " etc) but I strongly resent those around the fringes who seek to profiteer by the faithful's need of resources in order to worship that same Lord.

For my own part I would be more than happy for anyone to use my own poor efforts if they thought them worth it (but not to see someone else making a fortune out of selling them on) so what I would like to see is not a cd to buy but a resource like to cpdl where we could share our efforts freely for any use except publishing for profit. Perhaps this site could host such a venture?

Ah well . . . a man can dream!

Q

[oopsorganist]

Yes I too, have a dream. Born out of kind of laziness, perhaps caused by too much anaylsis of "data" in the Early Years sector, etc. In my dream I have that lovely Gloria I brought away from Summer School, sung well, but not too operatically - that I can play over the PA for a few weeks until my reluctant parish think they know it. And then, away we go. If it had the odd gap for Clapping ! then they would like it too (but that is some people's nightmare).

We literally want one Gloria, one Holy Holy, one Lamb of God (still called that is it?) and then away we go for oooo, at least three years work on them. Supported by the kind of things they love to sing and that would do for the moment.

[Nick Baty]

We literally want one Gloria, one Holy Holy, one Lamb of God

Not sure this will encourage people to sing. Do you really want to sing the same thing week after week? We're aiming small to begin with: two Glorias and four/five sets of acclamations over the next year or so. At least we'll be able to change them seasonally.

[Nick Baty]

. . and you can bet there won't be small supplements containing some selected settings - it'll be the whole thundering great tome including all the stuff you've got already, and costing about thirty-odd quid a time

The ignore it all.
Just get a Calamus licence and you'll be covered for everything – well, everything you'd want to use any way.

[Nick Baty]

I just want the odd delight.

There's heaps of stuff about to burst onto the market. The Panel has only met two or three times (most recently last week).
The items they are approving cannot be published until 26 April – but you're bound to receive loads of adverts before then.
And workshops are being advertised – so you'll have an opportunity to get together with other people and sing all this stuff – and that's the real proof of the pudding: how it sounds when people sing it for the first time – polished studio performances don't really show how an item will work at St Polycarp-by-the-Sea. See Events for Parish Musicians
Also, the Panel will be publishing a list of approved, published settings on the Liturgy Office website!

[alan29]

Why not share among ourselves?

[contrabordun]

For my own part I would be more than happy for anyone to use my own poor efforts if they thought them worth it (but not to see someone else making a fortune out of selling them on) so what I would like to see is not a cd to buy but a resource like to cpdl where we could share our efforts freely for any use except publishing for profit. Perhaps this site could host such a venture?

Well...why not upload to cpdl then? There's a surprising amount of contemporary music on there, for precisely this reason.

[Nick Baty]

Remembering that, if it includes the new ICEL texts, it must be approved by the Panel first!