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Sunday 11 October 2009

"At the Name of Jesus..."

How does a mess of cretins behave?

Okay, we're singing something, (yes, it was I who programmed it, there are considerations...) an ordinary, both for which I don't care, and than which we can do much, much better.

And I realized that without ever having stated it, one of my standards for suitability and the quality of the setting, and a tool for determining appropriate tempo is -- can the Holy Name be properly reverenced when it occurs in the text?

Without incurring whiplash?

It's something I think actual Catholic musicians understand instinctively, but I don't know that I've ever heard or read it articulated.

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