UPDATE (VI-12-24): This hymn has now been included as the Offertory for I Advent in the forthcoming Christus Vincit Gradual. Also appointed for the Thursday after Ash Wednesday and the Wednesday of II Lent.
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
LORD, I LIFT MY SOUL TO THEE (Updated VI-12-24)
UPDATE (VI-12-24): This hymn has now been included as the Offertory for I Advent in the forthcoming Christus Vincit Gradual. Also appointed for the Thursday after Ash Wednesday and the Wednesday of II Lent.
Thursday, December 28, 2023
O GOD, ACCORDING TO THY GRACE
Newly added to the Christus Vincit Gradual! Text is from Psalm 51 and taken from The Psalter of 1912. While the first verse constitutes the Proper Offertory for Tuesday of II Lent, the text is very much handy for much of the Lenten Season. The tune is aptly named New 51st (to go along with my series of hymntunes, New 25th and New 30th), and set in a nice somber mood (A minor). This text could also be well-suited with Thomas Tallis' Third Mode Melody.
PDF - O God, According to Thy Grace
SATB hymn
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023
LORD, I WILL PRAISE THY NAME
Newly addedd to the Christus Vincit Gradual! Text is from Psalm 30 and taken from The Psalter of 1912. Written in G minor with Lent in mind, as this also serves as the proper Offertory for Ash Wednesday, this tune (New Thirtieth) is my first original hymn tune in several years and my first ever which scans the poetic meter 66 66 88 (or 66 66 448), which means the 1912 text could be also sung to tunes such as Darwall's 148th, Laus Regis, and Little Cornard.
When playing this back, I felt like I just added a new potential entry to The Hymnal 1940 (albeit its final update was back in 1981).
PDF - Lord, I Will Praise Thy Name
SATB hymn
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BLESSED ARE YOU, O MARY (Updated!)
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
AVE MARIA
Great to use as an extra anthem or hymn at other Marian feasts and solemnities as well. PLUS: since this setting is written entirely in Latin, you can also use it in an Extraordinary Form Mass.
Two versions are available, as a choral anthem in A-flat, or as a hymn in F. Both contain a copyable congregation part (which is in F in both versions), as well as parts for a string quartet.
PDF - Ave Maria - SATB, Organ and optional Strings; both keys (F and A-flat) are included.
LORD, YOU HAVE GREATLY BLESSED YOUR LAND
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
BRAND SPANKIN' NEW!!! Laud, O Sion, Thy Salvation
Wednesday, April 08, 2020
COVID-19 and the CHRISTUS VINCIT GRADUAL
The job I was laid off from was my organist position, due to public Masses being put on hiatus by just about every bishop in the country, including my bishop here in Providence.
Capella 8 is the first version of Capella that is compatible with Mac as well as Windows (for all you Mac-heads out there). Previous versions were for Windows only.
Peace,
BMP
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Did I Say that There Was Going to Be a "Psalm 152"?
Monday, May 14, 2018
Psalm 151 - New and Improved - IS HERE!!!
Monday, March 06, 2017
Alleluias and Gospel Acclamations
Alleluia I for Ordinary Time (Sundays II-V of the Year , plus Presentation of the Lord)
Alleluia "Adoremus in Aeternum" (Sundays VI-IX of the Year)
Alleluia "Providentiae" (Sundays XIII-XVII of the Year) (extracted from the now-obsolete Providence Mass, written by yours truly in 1997, in the memory of C. Alexander Peloquin)
Alleluia "O Clemens" (Sundays XVIII-XXII of the Year, plus Transfiguration and Assumption) (melody based on the ending of Salve Regina)
Alleluia V for Ordinary Time (Sundays XXIII-XXVI of the Year, plus the Exaltation of the Holy Cross) (Side note: Alleluias "Adoremus in Aeternum", "Providentiae", and "O Clemens" are virtually numbered Alleluias II, III, and IV for Ordinary Time, respectively)
Alleluia "Lux Aeterna" (Sundays XXVII-XXXI of the Year, plus All Saints and All Souls)
Alleluia "Christus Vincit" (Sundays XXXII and XXXIII of the Year, plus Christ the King, Dedication of the Lateran Basilica, and Thanksgiving Day) (extracted from the now-obsolete Missa Christus Vincit, written by yours truly in 2000, based on his own Christus Vincit setting of 1999)
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Come, Thou Holy Spirit, Come
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Christians, to the Paschal Victim
Friday, October 14, 2016
Pange Lingua (with alternate SATB tune!)
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
All Glory, Laud, and Honor
O Redeemer
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Festive Hosanna
Festive Hosanna (SATB, Organ, Brass)
Instrumental Parts (2 Trumpets in B-flat and Trombone or Horn in F)
Monday, July 27, 2015
NEWLY REVAMPED: Hymns and Miscellaneous Responsories
BMP