[Magdalen] Trinity Anyone?

Jay Weigel jay.weigel at gmail.com
Fri May 29 20:54:40 UTC 2015


I will just play my Charpentier Te Deum full blast on Sunday.

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for this, Scott.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
> On 5/29/2015 2:28 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
>
>> That hymn is well known to Roman Catholics. Their version adds a couple of
>> yodels and a repeat that we haven't got in our version. I think the hymn
>> is
>> often sung at the end of benediction of the blessed Sacrament.
>> On May 29, 2015 12:22 PM, "Marion Thompson" <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Ah geez, our Te Deum will take the form of a hymn: Holy God we praise
>>> your
>>> name.  Probably some cheesy tune that nobody knows. NOT the same as the
>>> real thing with its majestic words.  Couldn't we recite it or something?
>>> How I pine for full throttle liturgy and music in a grand setting!  Oh,
>>> well.
>>>
>>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>>
>>> On 5/29/2015 1:09 PM, Marion Thompson wrote:
>>>
>>>  My little church will have both thuribles fuming away during the Te Deum
>>>> with the Sanctus bells ringing.  No choir, sadly, so who knows what our
>>>> Mr
>>>> Music will come up with for us.  In my own heart, I will revisit other
>>>> lovely musical times while giving up myself to the glorious cloud.  A
>>>> sad
>>>> footnote to my current life is that, with the total absence of smell
>>>> since
>>>> January, I have lost that fabulous aspect of incense. :-(((
>>>>
>>>> I'm preaching and haven't one word down yet.  The joys of having a house
>>>> on the market.  Yikes!
>>>>
>>>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>>>
>>>> On 5/29/2015 12:09 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Home parishes for any of our listmembers dusting off the
>>>>> handbells and double thuribles for a Solemn Te Deum at the
>>>>> conclusion of the main choral liturgy this Sunday, Trinity Sunday?
>>>>>    >From personal experience, it is one of the really fun liturgical
>>>>> moments when the altar tends to play hide and seek from all the
>>>>> smoke, and best observed from the back of the church or the
>>>>> rear gallery.
>>>>>    Ringing chord clusters on handbells is also much fun as the
>>>>> church choir drones on through the lovely solemn plainchant.
>>>>>        David Strang - a spike at heart.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>


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