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iSNARK! TV 13

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Pictured here is the Most Interesting Snark in the World, and he has a little snark friend (Devan).

The Most Interesting Snark in the World opens today's show.  We follow by rattling off some titles that we did during Holy Week, and then go into a funeral that I had to play at another church on the Tuesday of Easter Week.  One of the bullets I had to bite (er, one of the songs I had to play/sing) is the inspiration for this particular episode.  Watch and learn which song it is, and why!

The Most Interesting Snark in the world then returns to the set with a top ten list of his own revelations that make him so, well... interesting!  This list, incidentally, comes from the home office located in my Dodge!

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In today's episode, we delve further into the 1976 We Celebrate with Song hymnal for more hymns that we miss at Mass - this time running through numbers 151-200.  We also do a review of the pretty little hymnal pictured at left, the Vatican II Hymnal, made available at the Corpus Christi Watershed.
PLUS: The iSNARK! Studio smells like a walk-in beer keg after my return from the WC.  Gee, I wonder why?  And, guess what I had for din din last Friday!
Feasts for the Week: March 25-April 1
In What We Have Done, and In What We're Going to Do:  Music for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, the St. Joseph Solemnity, and the Fifth Sunday of Lent.
Miscellaneous Outburst:  My book's better!

Commercial: König Ludwig Weissbier
Top Ten Things I Rejoiced About on Laetare Sunday, from the home office somewhere in Rhode Island, home of Governor Gump.
Don't Do This at Church: Who gives a damn?

Music:
1. Joseph, Be Our Guide and Pattern (tune: Oriel)
2. The Son of David Will Live for Ever (written by yours truly)
3. By All Your Saints Still Striving (tune: St. Theodulph)
4. Come Now, and Praise the Humble Saint (tune: Land of Rest)
5. Holy Patron, Thee Saluting (tune: Pleading Savior)
6. Ave Verum (written by William Byrd), sung by the Aeode Consort, brought to you by The Classic Cat

Additional Links:
Motecta Trium Vocum, written by Kevin Allen, performed by Matthew Curtis
Holy Angels Mass, written by yours truly
Catholic Lost 45: Hosanna to the Living Lord (iSNARK! 178)
Catholic Lost 45: O God of Love, O King of Peace (CVA 52)
Catholic Lost 45: O Word of God Incarnate (CVA 51)
Killer free accompaniment of Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness (via YouTube)
Thomas Hewitt Jones (composer)

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Have you ever sang certain hymns and wonder just where they went?  Well, today we start a little series of hymns that we miss over here, and we're using a hymnal that I'll bet is hardly remembered - the 1976 (premiere) edition of We Celebrate (The picture on the left is one of the logos I describe).  We combed through just the first 50 hymns alone and you should see what we came up with.  Also, we combed through all four editions of Worship and came up with a new hymnal containing the best of all four: Worship - Ultimate Edition!
PLUS: Duck and cover (just ask Shamus O'Reilly), and a law student who wants to play, but doesn't want to pay!

Feasts for the Week: March 11-18
In What We Have Done, and in What We're Going to Do: the "have done" for First Friday and the Second Sunday of Lent, and the "going to do" for the Third Sunday of Lent.
Miscellaneous Outburst: What have you given up for Lent?
Commercial: König Ludwig Weissbier
Music: 2nd Movement of the Kyrie (2e Couplet du Kyrie) from Mass of the Convents (Messe pour les Couvents) (written by Francois Couperin), played by organist Corey Powell, courtesy of the Classic Cat.
Top Ten New Hymn Authors Lined Up for Gather Fourth Edition
Don't Do This at Church: Barney, guns, and sheep!

Additional Links:
The Lord's Kindness is Everlasting (.pdf) by Jeff Ostrowski
Glory and Praise to You (.pdf) by yours truly
I Will Walk before the Lord (.pdf) by Richard Rice
Twin Hymntunes (CVA #56); Hymn written by John Quincy Adams

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We're covering a couple of topics in this hour (give or take 14 seconds) of fun! One answers the question of what a funeral is like at my parish.  What music do I play?  What music do we allow and disallow?  We cover that, as well as play a good number of pieces from a recent funeral.  The other describes the differences, improvements, and declines in the four hymnals pictured at left.  Also, does a pop singer deserve to have the American flag flown at half-mast?
Feasts for the Week: February 22-March 4
Don't Do This at Church: Ashes on the fly!
Commercial: Krakowska Kielbasa
In What We Have Done and In What We're Going to Do: "Have done" for the Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time and Ash Wednesday, and "Going to do" for the First Sunday of Lent.
Random Thought: Bad mixes
Hymnody in Inflationary Language: Shamus O'Reilly lists some interesting "inflated" Lenten hymn titles.  Also, get a load of what he's giving up for Lent!

Music:
1. Requiem Aeternam (Chant, Mode VI); 2. Lift High the Cross (tune: Crucifer)
3. Alleluia (written by Theodore Marier, with funeral verse sung to Psalm Tone 5)
4. Glory and Praise to You (written by yours truly, based on Vexilla Regis, Chant, Mode I)
5. Sanctus XVIII; 6. Mortem Tuam Annuntiamus, Domine (from Jubilate Deo)
7. Agnus Dei XVIII (Missa Pro Defunctis version); 8. Lux Aeterna (Chant, Mode VIII)
9. Let Thy Blood in Mercy Poured (tune: Jesus, Meine Zuversicht)
10. I Believe that My Redeemer Lives (written by Henri St. Louis)
11. In Paradisum (Chant, Mode VII/VIII)
12. Ave Verum (written by Camille Saint-Saens), sung by the Choeur de Marais, brought to you by The Classic Cat.

Additional Link:  GIA Publications

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Another hymnal to review, this time, the Adoremus Hymnal, produced by the Adoremus Society and published by the Ignatius Press.  And in the middle of it all, I've been keeping my word from iSNARK! #185 by giving my opinions title by title for songs in Worship IV.  You can find these on Christus Vincit - the BLOG!  But first, we welcome you in Latin, German, and baby talk.
Feasts for the Week: January 29-February 5.  We also give a congratulatory shout-out to Mount Calvary Parish in Baltimore, MD.  Find out why!  Also: new source for the Ordinary Form Calendar: Women for Faith and Family.
Don't Do This at Church: two instances, scattered.
Commercials: the usual three, scattered about.

Music:
1. Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation (tune: Westminster Abbey)
2. Alleluia (written by Theodore Marier); 3. O Jesus, I Have Promised (tune: Day of Rest)
4. We Proclaim Your Death, O Lord (from Holy Angels Mass, written by yours truly)
5. In Thee Is Gladness (tune: In Der Ist Freude); 6. I Sought the Lord (tune: Artavia)
7. Jesus Shall Reign (tune: Duke Street)
8. All Creatures of Our God and King (tune: Lasst uns Erfreuen), arranged and performed by Johnny Proctor, courtesy of Soundclick.

Top Ten Song Titles that Almost Made It into a Major Hymnal, brought to you by Ineffable.

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The second in a series of new hymnals to be reviewed. This time, we review GIA's new flagship hymnal, Worship - Fourth Edition.
Also: Happy Ordinary Time! Or is it Happy Post-Epiphany? That, and moveable feasts for 2012 and 2013.
Feasts for the Week covers feasts from January 14-22.
Two instances of Don't Do This at Church, and the usual commercials, scattered within.
In What We Have Done, and in What We're Going to Do: What we did for the feast day of Blessed Brother Andre Bessette (in which Richard Chonak from the Catholic Light blog discovers a hymn with 14 verses) and the Epiphany, and what we're doing for Sunday II of Ordinary Time.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Kingsfold Edition, brought to you by the Society for a Moratorium on the Music of Marty Haugen and David Haas Facebook Page

Music:
1. Lord, Every Nation on Earth (written by yours truly)
2. As with Gladness Men of Old (tune: Dix)
3. The Liberty Bell March (written by John Philip Sousa), performed by the Hampshire Guitar Orchestra, courtesy of Music Alley

Additional link: Christus Vincit - the BLOG!

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Happy, blessed and prosperous New Year to all friends, family, listeners, and snark-o-maniacs!

I have in my possession a copy of the latest edition of the St. Michael Hymnal, and you're going to hear a review of it right here on iSNARK!
Also, we hear from technologically created Christus Vincit and iSNARK! guests past and present as to how they celebrated the New Year.

You'll hear from Basso Profundo, the Singing Fish, Fr. Jud McFry, The Bitmap, Papa Joe Ratzi, Frank A. Rinze, and of course, Shamus O'Reilly! You'll also hear how I celebrated, New Year's Rockin' Eve, and certain disposable drinking cups.

Also:
Two instances of Don't Do This at Church, and the usual commercials, scattered within.
In What We Have Done, and in What We're Going to Do: What we did for the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, and what we're doing for the First Friday (January 6, the optional memorial of Blessed Andre Bessette) and the Epiphany.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Christmas Carols Edition, brought to you by Crack

Music:
1. Puer Natus in Bethlehem (Chant, Mode I), sung by Basso Profundo, the Singing Fish
2. Not So Silent Night, written and performed by Charlie Crowe

Additional Links:
The Scandal of What We Sing; Bad Poetry, Bland Theology: Let's Write a Hymn; and Songs of the Saved and the Bland, the three mentioned articles about bad hymn alterations by Professor Anthony Esolen
Johnny Proctor; Chabanel Psalms

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