Recently added articles from Pastoral Music:
From the President
Feb 01, 2009; ... We hear a lot about borders today. The issue of border security in our own country turned out to be a major stumbling block to immigration reform during the most recent session of Congress. Much of the conflict in the Middle East is experienced most intensely at border checkpoints, especially ...
Association News
Feb 01, 2009; ... 2009 Convention Just What Is an NPM Convention? In September 2008, the NPM Board of Directors approved this formal description of what an NPM convention is and accomplishes: An NPM convention is a gathering of NPM members-pastoral musicians, clergy, liturgists, and other ...
Chrysogonus Waddell, OCSO 1930-2008
Feb 01, 2009; ... At the end of Tuesday night rehearsals, we turn off the lights, sit in darkness, and light candles on each side of the icon of the Madonna and Child. The piano softly offers the chord, and we intone, "Oh, hail, holy Queen . . . ." The first few notes hang in midair, painting a d-minor triad on ...
Multicultural Liturgy at St. Rita
Feb 01, 2009; ... A single highway traces through the middle of Benin, West Africa. It carries much of the country's goods- yams, cotton, gasoline, and cement-back and forth between the port city of Cotonou and the inland hub of Parakou. The village I serve as a Peace Corps volunteer is on that highway, and its ...
The Two Shall Become One/Ya no serán dos, sino uno solo
Feb 01, 2009; ... When a couple enters into marriage, they give their consent, they take vows of fidelity, and they understand that there will be good times and difficult times and, along the way, sacrifices to be made. They choose to take two completely different backgrounds and put them together to live one ...
"Conviene que el salmo responsorial sea cantado"/"It Is Preferable that the Responsorial Psalm Be Sung"
Feb 01, 2009; ... POR FABIÁN YANEZ A principios de los años 70, mi mentor me platicó de un incidente que hoy parece curioso: Se encontraba él en una reunión nacional cuando un editor se le acercó y le preguntó había tanto énfasis en el uso de las partituras musicales para el salmo responsorial. Según el ...
Celebrando nuestras fiestas: la piedad popular en el contexto del Año Litúrgico
Feb 01, 2009; ... El pueblo latino americano sabe y quiere celebrar. Celebramos con gran alegría y con profunda pena nuestro recorrer por la vida, desde el nacimiento hasta la muerte. Marcamos el transcurso del tiempo cada año con fiestas celebradas en el Año Litúrgico, como el Miércoles de Ceniza, el Viernes ...
Popular Piety and the Liturgy
Feb 01, 2009; ... Music, song, and dance have been part of all of human history, particularly as humans have sought ways to relate to God. Deep feelings seem to require expression through symbols, through poetry, through music, through those things that lead the spirit beyond itself. Many ancient religions held ...
Summer Institutes 2009
Feb 01, 2009; ... Cantor Express 4 Dates and Locations The weekend has something to offer cantors at all levels: beginner, advanced, and professional. Most cantors are proficient in some areas but need to develop in others. Some participants are discerning whether this ministry is right for them ...
Recursos litúrgicos y musicales en Español: Una bibliografía anotada/Liturgical and Musical Resources in Spanish: An Annotated Bibliography
Feb 01, 2009; ... Durante la última década poco más o menos, se ha dispuesto de un número creciente de recursos para los músicos pastorales que ejercen su ministerio en comunidades católicas de hispano-hablantes en los Estados Unidos. Aquí se presenta una lista de los documentos que todos los ministros de música ...
One Body, Healed of All Division/Un solo cuerpo en que no haya ninguna división
Feb 01, 2009; ... The phrase appears before us in the first Eucharistic Prayer on Reconciliation of the Roman Missal: "one body, healed of all division." More than the Church's wishful thinking in an attempt to describe the dreams and hopes of Jesus of Nazareth, this phrase hits us as a mandate given to all who ...
No Greater Love/No Hay Amor Más Grande
Feb 01, 2009; ... Bilingual and Spanish Collections No Greater Love/No Hay Amor Más Grande Various Composers. OCP. 20382, keyboard accompaniment songbook, $13.00; 20383, choral only songbook, $6.00; 20753, guitar accompaniment book, $11.00; 20381, CD, $20.00. This work contains songs for the Paschal ...
El Señor Nos Invita
Feb 01, 2009; ... El Señor Nos Invita Various composers. OCP. 20552,keyboard, guitar, solo instrument in C, vocal accompaniment book, $13.00; 20553, songbook for children, $3.00; 20551, CD, $17.00. This collection of songs for the sacraments of reconciliation and first Communion displays compositions ...
My Mouth Will Proclaim Your Praise/Mi Boca Proclamará Tu Alabanza
Feb 01, 2009; ... My Mouth Will Proclaim Your Praise/Mi Boca Proclamará Tu Alabanza Pedro Rubalcava. OCR 20447, choral songbook with keyboard and guitar, $15.00; 20448, congregation songbook, $6.00; 20446, CD, $16.00. This collection is the answer to our prayers! A setting of the liturgy of the hours ...
Del Pesebre a la Cruz
Feb 01, 2009; ... Del Pesebre a la Cruz Diego Correa y Damaris Thillet. OCP. 20564, vocal, guitar, C instrument, and percussion accompaniment book, $13.00; 20563, CD, $17.00. These are songs in Spanish for worship during the seasons of Advent, Christmas, and Easter. This work displays a colorful array of ...
Gloria/Glory
Feb 01, 2009; ... Bilingual Choral Recitative Gloria/Glory. Pablo Sosa. SATB, congregation, piano, guitar. GIA, G-7010, $1.30. This single song is part of the musical collection És te Es El Día/ This Is the Day, a compilation of several songs and a CD recording. It is available now as an octavo arranged for ...
Amanecer/At the Break of Day
Feb 01, 2009; ... Amanecer/At the Break of Day. Pedro Rubalcava. Three-part choir, keyboard, guitar, flute. OCP, 20760, $1.30.This single song is part of the collection Amanecer, now presented bilingually on a single octavo with arrangement for keyboard, guitar, flute, and three-part choir. It's a very calm, ...
Ven, Oh Ven Emmanuel/Come, Emmanuel
Feb 01, 2009; ... Ven, Oh Ven Emmanuel/Come, Emmanuel. Jaime Cortez. SAT, keyboard, guitar. OCP, 20327, $1.30. Other arrangements available online. This single song taken from the Adviento collection is set as an octavo arranged for keyboard, guitar and three-part choir. It can be used either in Spanish, in ...
Oh Dios de Luz y Oscuridad/O God of Day and God of Night
Feb 01, 2009; ... Oh Dios de Luz y Oscuridad/O God of Day and God of Night. Pedro Rubalcava. SATB, keyboard, guitar, and flute. OCP, 20668, $1.50. This song, taken from the collection Mi Boca Proclamará Tu Alabanza/ My Mouth Will Proclaim Your Praise, is set to be sung for vespers of the liturgy of the hours. The ...
What Would Jesus Sing? Experimentation and Tradition in Church Music
Feb 01, 2009; ... Books What Would Jesus Sing? Experimentation and Tradition in Church Music Ed. Marilyn Haskel. 186 pages, paperback. Church Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-0-89869-563-2. $15.00. "Well that certainly didn't work!" exclaimed a supportive and discerning pastor to one of the book's authors ....