Cantate Domino Sing to the Lord a New Song (or play it on your harp?)
Here is the second track on the 1936 record Rythmique Grégorienne, uploaded to YouTube by Folklore Québécois and reissued by Sony-Universal on a four-CD set in 2011. The Introit Cantate Domino is sung by the Benedictine monks of the Abbey of Saint-Benoït-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada: Below you can see a page from the 1948 book Rythmique […]
Rythmique Grégorienne
Sometime around 2014/2015 shortly after Vox Celeste was released I was searching YouTube videos for examples of sung Gregorian chant that were decidedely not Vatican-produced (not that there’s anything wrong with the Holy See’s perspective on sacred music… their own Fr. Marco Frisina is one of my favorite contemporary liturgical composers), but I wanted a different […]
Reawakening
After more than six months of inactivity both here on my blog and in my studio, I’m finally in a position to start arranging, recording and posting again. My emotionally and physically exhausting daily job of caregiver to both of my elderly parents after 18 months at home with us is over; dad died last […]
Harp Music for a Wedding! Nuptial High Mass arranged for Harp ~ Deus Israel
George’s granddaughter Christine got married recently. Her wedding was on December 12, 2019 in Boston. Being an at-home caregiver to my elderly mom with Alzheimer’s dementia, I wasn’t free to travel but I could be there in spirit. And on YouTube! With my harp. Or in this case, Jasmine’s harp. For this arrangement, I […]
Playing on a Diatonic Harp? Some thoughts on flats and naturals...
Roráte Cæli is a beautiful Gregorian chant and fairly easy to play on a harp with sharping levers, but what if your harp is diatonic and doesn’t have these? The chant has two B naturals, both of them quilismas, that would be lightly and quickly sung. The remaining B’s are flatted. Given that they are […]
Gregorian Chant Harp Music for Advent Rorate Cæli
Gregorian Chant arranged for small Celtic harp For reference, here is Roráte Cæli in Gregorian neume notation. This is from the Graduale Romanum, (Solesmes) 1961, p.21 and the Liber Usualis (Solesmes), 1961, p. 353 and made freely available online at GregoBase: A Database of Gregorian Scores. Transcription by Andrew Hinkley. Here is an instrumental version of […]
Harp Music! Gregorian chant, scores, arrangements...
Welcome to the WordPress section of www.sherrimatthew.com! I’ve set this up so it’s a little easier to read and find things, and keep the site updated. Don’t worry, Jasmine and the kitty family aren’t going away on the main site; it’s just too complicated to redo that one so that it displays well on mobile […]