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Mozart Requiem

CFCA_MozartsRequiem_posterThe 3rd annual Summer Classical Series concert of the Central Florida Community Choir will be a performance of Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor.
Jacob Haines, music director
Central Florida Community Arts Orchestra
with Wm. Glenn Osborne, Organist

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Centennial Celebration Gloria

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Gloria.Centennial.Unison1 For many years when planning large multilingual diocesan celebrations, I felt Latin would be the best option for the Mass Ordinary. Because these special celebrations often are festive occasions where I had supplemental instrumental resources, using the traditional Latin chants always felt out of place, especially for the Gloria which follows so soon after what typically is a rousing entrance procession. Even though I love chant, the contrast between styles always seemed to make this hymn of praise more of a funeral dirge.

Finally, I took the time to write a more festive accompanied setting of the Latin text for the closing celebration of the Centennial of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Kissimmee, Florida. While I may eventually do an SATB version and instrumental parts, the piece was first performed by on June 30, 2013 in unison by the combined choirs of Holy Redeemer. There is a congregational-friendly refrain and the verses are marked for women/men/all choral groupings but could just as easily be sung by a cantor alone.

Purchase of the downloadable score grants permission to reprint as necessary for performance by the person or organization. All other rights (including further distribution) are reserved.

RSCM Tulsa

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Prelude and Fugue on themes from RSCM Tulsa 2013This past week I was able to attend the RSCM Tulsa Course with Malcolm Archer as director and Bruce Neswick as organ instructor. It was a wonderful week of music making which included the following partial repertoire list:

  • Missa omnes sancti – Malcolm Archer
  • Rejoice in the Lamb – Benjamin Britten
  • Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in A – Stanford

Included as part of the week’s activities was a talent show on Saturday evening. After deciding to perform a piano duet with another participant, I offered to write a piece for us to play. In addition to themes from the pieces listed above, I included a musical rendition of the name of our conductor for the week: M-A-L-C-O-L-M A-R-C-H-E-R. I was a little concerned about meeting the deadline with so little free time in between and after rehearsals, but I think the piece was clearly a success, especially for all those who recognized the theme citations. The video below was recorded on my iPhone. Enjoy!

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Alphabetical list of my hymn tunes

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For a list of tunes sorted by meter, please click here.

  • Azure Blue – CM
  • Advent Beginnings – 10 10 11 10
  • Bitterwood – 76 76D
  • Casser – 11 11 11 11
  • Changing Words – 77 77D
  • Chaos Shelter – 87 87 with refrain
  • Classic Unity – CM
  • Demon Driven – 87 87D
  • Double Unity – CMD
  • Easter Morn – 88 88 88
  • Elm Street – LM
  • Extended Cloud – 77 76
  • Faithful Church – 11 11 11 11 with refrain
  • Farewell Friend – LM
  • Friends Today – 87 87D
  • Glad Acclaim – CM
  • Green World – 77 77 with refrain
  • Hillside Wheat – 87 87D
  • Hubbard – 66 67D
  • Idle Depths – 85 75
  • Light Unfading – 87 87 87
  • Living Church – LM
  • Love Me Not – CM
  • Matinal – 86 88
  • Merciful Shadow – SM
  • Mystic Spirit – 87 87 77
  • No Royal Crown – LM
  • Present Here – CMD
  • Proud Wisdom – 10 9 10 9
  • Refuge Call – SM
  • River’s Child – 7777
  • Rooted Chain – 87 87D
  • Sea Fishing – 88 88 88
  • Sea Walk – LM (w/repeat)
  • Sent Forward – 11 8 11 9 with refrain
  • Steadfast Mercy – SM
  • Trampled Shame – SM
  • Trusting Christ – CM
  • Unexpected Harmony – 87 87 87
  • Unfading Light – 87 87
  • Weary World – 76 76 D
  • 1 more unnamed tune
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Cantate Domino

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Written by request for the choral concert given on May 22, 2011 by William Picher and the Basilica Choir with friends. The choral group for the day contained 16 singers, and Bill was looking for a 16-voice piece. I sat with this request for quite a while before finally settling on this text and the general style of the piece. Most of the piece is written for 8-part choir, but the middle section is a 16 part fugue. The recording below was made at the dress rehearsal prior to the concert.

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Psalm 96: 1-3
Cantate Domino canticum novum:
Cantate Domino omnis terra.
Cantate Domino, benedicite nomini eius:
Adnuntiate diem de die salutare eius.

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Hymn Tunes by meter

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Listed below are the named hymn tunes I have written sorted by meter. For an alphabetical list, please see my post here.

CM

  • Azure Blue
  • Classic Unity
  • Glad Acclaim
  • Love Me Not
  • Trusting Christ

CMD

  • Double Unity
  • Present Here

LM

  • Elm Street
  • Farewell Friend
  • Living Church
  • No Royal Crown

LM with repeat

  • Sea Walk

SM

  • Merciful Shadow
  • Refuge Call
  • Steadfast Mercy
  • Trampled Shame

66 67D

  • Hubbard

76 76D

  • Bitterwood
  • Weary World

77 76

  • Extended Cloud

77 77

  • River’s Child

77 77 D

  • Changing Words

77 77 with refrain

  • Green World

85 75

  • Idle Depths

86 88

  • Matinal

87 87

  • Unfading Light

87 87 with refrain

  • Chaos Shelter – 87 87 with refrain

87 87 77

  • Mystic Spirit

87 87 87

  • Light Unfading
  • Unexpected Harmony

87 87D

  • Demon Driven
  • Friends Today
  • Hillside Wheat
  • Rooted Chain

88 88 88

  • Easter Morn
  • Sea Fishing

10 9 10 9

  • Proud Wisdom

10 10 11 10

  • Advent Beginnings

11 8 11 9 with refrain

  • Sent Forward

11 11 11 11

  • Casser

11 11 11 11 with refrain

  • Faithful Church
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The British Way Concert Videos

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While looking around on-line today, I discovered that TampaKurt had posted videos from the Festival Singers of Florida concert in January. The video playlist includes 11 selections from The British Way! and may be seen here. It was a pleasure to work with Dr Kevin Fenton and the Festival Singers.

As a teaser, here’s the first piece on the program: ‘Let The People Praise Thee, O God’ by William Mathias

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Crucifixion Hymns

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Americans are used to reading hymns with the text set between the treble and bass clef staffs with the syllables more or less lined up with the music. British hymns are usually set with the music at the top of the page and all the lyrics at the bottom in a format that makes the poetry more obvious. The score for The Crucifixion by John Stainer presents the five hymns in British style. While preparing for the CFAGO combined choir performance of the work, this has proved a bit of a challenge for my American choir, I have taken the time to set the text within the music and am offering the files for download below. Some files include the performance instructions which we followed.

Hymns from the Crucificion by John Stainer: