Forth in Praise
Liturgy Commission Music

The Singing Day on Saturday 19 May will include excerpts from a new Australian Mass,
the Mass of St Francis by Paul Taylor.
More details about the day, including the timetable, can be found on our Events page.

• Forth in Praise will hold a Singing Day in Linlithgow on Saturday 19 May. More details can be found on the Events Page.

• In response to a number of complaints that the ICEL Holy Week chants are difficult to read, Forth in Praise has produced staff notation files of the Exsultet, and some other chants. You can find these on the Publications/Downloads Page.

• Kirkcaldy composer John McLean has uploaded his music for the New Mass on his own website. Link to it here. More details on the Edinburgh Page

• Music Newsletter no.20 has been issued, rather unexpectedly, as we thought no. 19 would be the last. See it on the Newsletter Page.

• The audio file for Evelyn Stell's prize-winning organ voluntary 'Gloria' has now been uploaded here.

APPROVAL COMMITTEE

1. There is now an approval committee in being in Scotland which gives permission (they call it an imprimatur) for music settings of the new Mass translation to be published. This committee is anonymous. Details can be found here, where there is also a list of approved settings.

2. An approval committee has been operating in England for a year or more. Their permission is called a concordat. Details can be found here, and their list of approved settings here.

3. For other countries, please consult their bishops' websites here.

4. The Scottish committee has made a few decisions, and we are pleased to report that Tony Giovanazzi from Edinburgh has had three Mass settings approved. Noel Donnelly's Dalreoch Mass has also been approved. We don't as yet have publisher details in either case.

5. Very important note: you do NOT need permission from an approval committee if you are using your own music in your own community. It is only if you want to have it published. This applies in Scotland and England. Other countries please check.

OTHER NEWS

• Forth in Praise is hosting an Edinburgh page to contain samples of Mass music by composers in our own archdiocese who don't have their own websites. More details can be found here.

• Decani Music have produced a supplement to their Laudate hymn book especially for the new liturgy.

• Galloway composer Nicola Lawrence now has her own website and is uploading her music to it. Link to it here .

• All Evelyn Stell's music for the new translation is now on her own website with downloadable accompaniment PDFs for chords and organ. Evelyn has recently won a national composing competition with an organ voluntary called 'Gloria', based on Gregorian chant. This has now been published by Fagus Music.

The text itself and the official chant

in Scotland

in other countries

ICEL chant in staff notation

Mass settings, new and revised

ICEL chant in staff notation.
Also accompaniments for beginner organists

Freely downloadable from Forth in Praise

Melodies in staff notation. Four different accompaniments for each chant, including chords. Organists can choose and download according to skill level.

KYRIE, GLORIA, SANCTUS, MEMORIAL ACCLAMATIONS,
AGNUS DEI now all online for downloading.