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To: marshmallow

I’m old-fashioned; I never even HEARD of a Catholic music director.


5 posted on 09/29/2014 3:36:41 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: miss marmelstein

Well, they used to be called Choirmasters or Masters of the Chapel, although usually they had an official Canonry. They go way, way back . . . at least to the 14th century in France and the Netherlands, and further than that in Italy.


8 posted on 09/29/2014 4:46:22 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: miss marmelstein
One of my favorites, Johannes Ockeghem, Master of the King's Chapel and Treasurer of the Abbey of St. Martin:

(that's him in the glasses, with his schola.)

Ockeghem's Missa Mi-Mi ("Gloria")

9 posted on 09/29/2014 4:57:47 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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