Comments for Church Music https://www.sixmaddens.org Blogging Catholic Liturgical Music Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:31:43 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Defend Me, O God, And Plead My Cause NLPHB 55 by maddg https://www.sixmaddens.org/defend-me-o-god-and-plead-my-cause-nlphb-55/#comment-88300 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:31:43 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=21624#comment-88300 In reply to Chris Wroblewski.

Chris

4th para.

I remember getting my first proper word processor – an early MS Word on floppies – and inflicting the marker of my assignments with esoteric punctuation just because I could.

I decided with that psalm that if the response was essentially triplets I would do that where feasible in the verses.

Geoff

]]> Comment on Defend Me, O God, And Plead My Cause NLPHB 55 by Chris Wroblewski https://www.sixmaddens.org/defend-me-o-god-and-plead-my-cause-nlphb-55/#comment-88299 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:25:49 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=21624#comment-88299 I don’t have the timing skills to successfully sing Gelineau, but as your midi shows, they really do have attractive melodies.

It’s worth mentioning that these were originally published (in English) back in 1963, before we had an English lectionary, so almost all the responses published for the lectionary are later compositions. While books with the original Grail text are still in print, I don’t believe that any with the complete original full psalm and antiphon music (as included in NLP) are. A selection is included in the psalm section of the Worship, 4th ed. hymnal, all be it, with Revised Grail 2010 text.

Outside of the responsorial psalm in the Mass, it is common practise to include a doxology as the final stanza when a psalm is sung/said as part of the Divine Office or a proper at Mass.

I have to ask: where is this M dash you speak of? I can’t see it anywhere!

]]> Comment on Defend Me, O God, And Plead My Cause NLPHB 55 by Ryan https://www.sixmaddens.org/defend-me-o-god-and-plead-my-cause-nlphb-55/#comment-88298 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:25:04 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=21624#comment-88298 Would AI write a line as clever as “3/4 of the Wiggles” in a church music blog post? I think not. Thank you for the laugh!

]]> Comment on Cry Out With Joy to the Lord, All the Earth NLPHB 53 by Gio https://www.sixmaddens.org/cry-out-with-joy-to-the-lord-all-the-earth-nlphb-53/#comment-88283 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:34:20 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=21608#comment-88283 The Gelineau psalms are quite interesting. It’s the same thinking as behind I Am the Bread of Life. You have the bars and you fit the words in. Just make sure it’s not too fast so it gets all garbled.

I first heard the Gelineau psalms in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Byzz9CHgI
I first heard it and fell in love with the alleluia – Did some digging and found it was Dom Anthony Gregory Murray.

The Gelineau psalms paved the way for the responsorial psalms we have in Mass today.
Really cool history to look into.

]]> Comment on Music for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Year A June 6th/7th 2026 by Ryan https://www.sixmaddens.org/music-for-the-solemnity-of-the-most-holy-body-and-blood-of-christ-year-a-june-6th-7th-2026/#comment-88278 Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:35:34 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=21525#comment-88278 Gathering: Table of Plenty (Schutte)
Mass Parts: Mass of St. Ann (Bolduc)
Psalm: Praise the Lord, Jerusalem (Haugen – The Lyric Psalter)
Gifts: As Christ Is for Us (Whitaker)
Communion: The Supper of the Lord (Rosania)
Look Beyond (Ducote)
Closing: Sent Forth by God’s Blessing (Westendorf; ASH GROVE)

]]> Comment on Music for the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time Year A 25th/26th July 2026 by Chris Wroblewski https://www.sixmaddens.org/music-for-the-seventeenth-week-in-ordinary-time-year-a-25th-26th-july-2026/#comment-88268 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:25:14 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=21541#comment-88268 CWB2:643 – Who Can Measure Heaven and Earth? [Idle / DIX]
CWB2:570 – O God, We Give Ourselves Today [Nye / MARTYRDOM]
CWB2:449 – Alleluia! Sing to Jesus! [Dix / HYFRYDOL]
CWB2:455 – Be Thou My Vision, O Lord of My Heart [Hull / SLANE]

]]> Comment on Music for the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Year A 18th/19th July by Chris Wroblewski https://www.sixmaddens.org/music-for-the-sixteenth-week-in-ordinary-time-year-a-18th-19th-july/#comment-88267 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:24:16 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=21539#comment-88267 CWB2:126 – Great God of Mercy, God of Consolation [Quinn / ISTE CONFESSOR]
CWB2:616 – The Kingdom of God Is Justice and Joy [Rees / HANOVER
CWB2:520 – In Faith and Hope and Love [McAuley / ARALUEN]
CWB2:485 – Father, We Give You Thanks Who Planted [Tucker / RENDEZ A DIEU]

]]> Comment on Music for the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time Year A 11th/12th July 2026 by Chris Wroblewski https://www.sixmaddens.org/music-for-the-fifteenth-week-in-ordinary-time-year-a-11th-12th-july-2026/#comment-88266 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:23:12 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=21537#comment-88266 CWB2:497 ‐ God Has Spoken by His Prophets [Briggs / HYMN TO JOY]
CWB2:644 ‐ Word of God, Come Down on Earth [Quinn / LIEBSTER JESU]
CWB2:608 ‐ Take and Eat [Quinn + Joncas]
CWB2:488 ‐ For the Fruits of All Creation [Green / AR HYD Y NOS]

]]> Comment on Music for the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time Year A 4th/5th July 2026 by Chris Wroblewski https://www.sixmaddens.org/music-for-the-fourteenth-week-in-ordinary-time-year-a-4th-5th-july-2026/#comment-88265 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:22:05 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=21535#comment-88265 CWB2:551 ‐ Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service [Bayly / IN BABILONE]
CWB2:470 ‐ Come to Me, All Ye Who Labour [anonymous / MISNEACH]
CWB2:397 ‐ Jesus, in Your Heart We Find [McAuley / SANCTA SOPHIA]
CWB2:642 ‐ What Does the Lord Require [Bayly / SHARPTHORNE]

]]> Comment on Music for the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time Year A 27th/28th June 2026 by Chris Wroblewski https://www.sixmaddens.org/music-for-the-thirteenth-week-in-ordinary-time-year-a-27th-28th-june-2026/#comment-88264 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:18:57 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=21532#comment-88264 CWB2:467 ‐ Christ Is the World’s Light [Green / IN CHRISTE SANCTORUM]
CWB2:612 ‐ Take Up Your Cross, the Saviour Said [Everest / ERHALT UNS, HERR]
CWB2:578 ‐ O Lord, at Your First Eucharist You Prayed [Turton / SONG 1]
CWB2:519 ‐ In Christ There Is No East or West [Dunkerley / SAINT BERNARD]

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