Saturday, December 31, 2011

iSNARK! 183


Listen below, or download here. (1:12:57/66.7 MB)

Merry and Blessed Christmas to all of you!  Are we too late to say that? Hell, no! Christmas just started last Sunday. And today we bring you our Christmas Special, featuring a good chunk of the music we did at Mass this Christmas.

Feasts for the Week, covering the entire Christmas Season, and most of the Jungle Screechers' gift vodka is missing. Where did it go?
Don't Do This at Church: Santa's got a gun?
Commercials: the usuals, usually scattered.

In What We Have Done, and in What We're Going to Do: (today's feature topic) featuring what we did for Christmas, and what we will be doing New Year's Weekend (a funeral, a wedding, AND Mary Mother of God).
Shamus' Christmas Adventures: Shamus O'Reilly discovers a Christmas Tree on Smith Hill.
Random Thought: remakes

Music:
1. Good Christian Men, Rejoice (tune: In Dulci Jubilo) (Brass trio)
2. O Little Town of Bethlehem (tune: Forest Green) (Quartet)
3. Tollite Hostias (written by Camille Saint-Saƫns) (Quartet)
4. What Child Is This (tune: Greensleeves) (Brass trio)
5. O Come, All Ye Faithful/Adeste Fideles (arranged by David Willcocks) (Brass trio, Quartet, and Congregation)
6. Gloria from Mass of the Shepherds (written by Pietro Yon) (Quartet)
7. For Ever I Will Sing (written by yours truly) (Quartet and Congregation)
8. Alleluia (with verse from the Vigil Mass) (adapted by yours truly from the Mode V chant tune Divinum Mysterium) (Quartet and Congregation)
9.  Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (written by Felix Mendelssohn, arranged by David Willcocks) (Brass trio, Quartet, and Congregation)
10., 11. Sanctus and Agnus Dei from Mass of the Shepherds (written by Pietro Yon) (Quartet)
12. O Holy Night (written by Adolphe Adam) (Quartet)
13. Silent Night, Holy Night (tune: Stille Nacht) (Quartet and Congregation)
14. Hallelujah (from Messiah, by George Frederic Handel) (Quartet)
15. Fugli sings the Coventry Carol, brought to you by Music Alley

Additional link: All the Ends of the Earth, written by Richard Rice.

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Saturday, December 10, 2011

iSNARK! 182



Listen below, or download here. (58:46/53.8 MB)

Uploaded before 5:00 Mass tonight. Show notes written after 5:00 Mass and concert at friend's parish!
Today's show takes a more positive approach in its feature topic. iSNARK! recommends many good Mass settings written in English according to the Roman Missal, Third Typical Edition.  And we manage to keep it unusually positive!  We also cover a whole bunch of happenings at Christus Vincit - the BLOG!
Feasts for the Week: December 11-18
Miscellaneous Outbursts (two of them, scattered)
Commercials (the usual three, scattered as usual)

In What We Have Done, and In What We're Going to Do: What we have done for First Friday, Second Sunday of Advent, and Immaculate Conception, and What we're going to do for the Third Sunday of Advent, while the studio gets invaded briefly by chickens and Cadbury Egg rabbits.
Don't Do This at Church
Liturgy 911: RETURNS! Papa Joe Ratzi and Frank A. Rinze encounter a copy of the 2012 OCP Music Issue.

Music:
1. Creator Alme Siderum (Chant, Mode IV); 2. Veni, Veni, Emmanuel (Chant, Mode I)
3. Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending (tune: Helmsley)
4. On Jordan's Bank (tune: Winchester New)
5. The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came (tune: Gabriel's Message)
6. We Proclaim Your Death, O Lord, from Holy Angels Mass (written by yours truly)
7. Dresden Amen
8. Ave Maria (melody by Charles Gounod, written over the Prelude in C by J.S. Bach)
9. Johnny Proctor sings his own Hail Mary, courtesy of Soundclick

Additional links:
Pro Ecclesia, Pro Familia, Pro Civitate; Catholic Light
.pdf of My Soul Rejoices in My God by Richard Rice; iSNARK! TV 7; iSNARK! TV 12
World Library Publications; Liturgical Press; GIA Publications
Oregon Catholic Press (OCP); Corpus Christi Watershed Mass Settings
St. Michael Hymnal; Adoremus Hymnal; Orthometer

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