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More Dr. Horrible

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Playing catchup with liturgical compositions and YouTube

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I should’ve posted these ages ago, but busy blah blah blah procrastinating yadda yadda yadda lazy etc. etc. etc.

Psalm 34: Taste and See

Mass for a Risen Church: Eucharistic Acclamations

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My Freeze Ray

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If you haven’t yet watched Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, you really should.

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Guitar Praise: Solid Rock

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I’m just going to let this one speak for itself:

Guitar Praise: Solid Rock

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In the beginning was the Word, and it was confusing

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At a retreat I attended a decade ago, a priest was delivering a talk on the liturgy. He was firing off an explanation and said, “The Lord be with you.” Almost immediately, in a nearly involuntary reflex that would make Pavlov proud, everybody interrupted and chimed in with the response, “And also with you.” He paused, and then quipped: “Wow. If I rang a bell, would you all start salivating?”

Two days ago, the bishops’ Committee on Divine Worship finally released the new translation of the Order of Mass (800kb PDF). It’s not for use in worship yet—Rocco Palmo says the earliest it’ll be rolled out is 2011—but it’s being provided for study and formation.

So, start unlearning 35 years of ingrained congregational responses like “And also with you,” and get used to “And with your spirit.” Other responses, as quoted from Whispers in the Loggia:

The more significant changes of the people’s parts are:

• et cum spiritu tuo is rendered as “And with your spirit”
• In the Confiteor, the text “through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault” has been added
• The Gloria has been translated differently and the structure is different from the present text
• In the Preface dialogue the translation of “Dignum et justum est” is “It is right and just”
• The first line of the Sanctus now reads “Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts”
• The response of the people at the Ecce Agnus Dei is “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.”

A few years ago, John Wilkins wrote an excellent article for Commonweal chronicling the painstaking and painful history of ICEL’s translating process. It’s a fascinating and disturbing history of clashing interests and church politics, of literalist translation versus dynamic equivalence, and of authority over collegiality.

I’m not happy with the text, but that’s not for me to decide. I will finally be able to work on either creating or updating the Mass settings I’ve composed, and hopefully prepare them for publication.

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FREAKING HARDCORE.

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Jimi Hendrix, eat your heart out:

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Aase ringtone

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I took this and made it into a 24-second ringtone (187.5KB MP3, 64kbps, mono, 22050Hz). It loops pretty well.

If you don’t know how to upload MP3 ringtones to your phone—a Bluetooth connection helps—Google it (and please don’t ask me). Using the model of your phone (e.g., “razr"), “bluetooth”, “upload”, “ringtone”, and the name of your OS (e.g., “mac os x") as keywords will probably give you what you need.

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Grieg via GarageBand

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Off and on for the past two weeks, I worked in GarageBand on a mix of “Aase’s Death” from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite. I grabbed the MIDI strings from the Mutopia Project and dropped them into GarageBand, using individual string section sounds from the Orchestra Jam Pack. I tweaked them to sound more organic and less synth-y.

After working for a few days adjusting the velocities, starts, and releases, I listened and thought: “This would sound totally wicked with a beat.”

Here’s the finished product (6.6MB zipped AAC, 192kbps).

Copyright © 2007 by Christian Cosas. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

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