Catholic liturgical music is serious, solemn, transcendent, but Catholic musicians are never more fun and inspiring than when they are talking about what they love most. This is what happens at sacred music events around the world: the social and intellectual are critically important elements. The musicians (and music enthusiasts) at the Chant Café, a project of the
Church Music Association of America, bring that sense of life and love to the digital world. As St. Augustine said, "Cantare amantis est."
Among the contributors:
Also past contributors:
Jeffrey Tucker, writer, editor, entrepreneur, musician |
archiveNick Gale (1975-2015), organist, choral director, for 13 years Master of the Music at the Cathedral of St. George in Southwark |
archiveBen, schola director and organ student |
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The output is lovely, but it reminds me of programming in Algol or COBOL back in the eighties where we wrote our programs in a DOS system and submitted them to a compiler, then ran the compiled program, noted the various errors and bugs and went back to fix them. Gregoire, being a Windows app, is so much easier to use, and the output is acceptable. Of course you need to break the French code.
Is Gregoire still being developed? I could barely get it to run back in 2005. The main advantage of Gregorio over Gregoire though is the repositories of ready-to-use GABC code, such as gregobase.selapa.net/scores.php
Also, I think the site that I wrote that has English and Latin syllabification both built in and requires no typing of parentheses is easier. Gregoire made it fairly easy to typeset chant slowly, but GABC makes it fairly easy (but with a steeper learning curve) to transcribe chant quickly, especially when you no longer need to type in parentheses all the time.
I should have linked to my page but forgot: gabc.romanliturgy.org