Hi folks! It's been awhile. Although I've posted a few videos on my Youtube channel, I've not sent out a ChantHacks episode for a few months.

Yesterday, my wife, Catherine, son, Joseph, and I went to the Carmel of the Holy Family in Valparaiso, Nebraska for Mass. It being the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, the Alleluia was Magnus Dominus. I love this Alleluia! Ten years ago (2015), I started writing a "paraphrase mass" based on this chant. (A "paraphrase mass" is composed using the material of a pre-existing tune, usually a Gregorian Chant.) I completed the Kyrie that year, but not the rest.

Over the next couple of years, I completed the Gloria and Sanctus, both of which we sang at the British Columbia Sacred Music Symposium, August 3 & 4, 2019 (exactly six years ago). That's as far as I've gotten.

Here's a recording of the Kyrie sung in workshop by Belle Voci (bellevoci.ca) in August, 2017.

Let me know if you like it and think I should finish the mass (Credo & Agnus Dei).

God bless! Mark

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The chant at the beginning and the polyphony at the end are on the album "All Saints at St. Michael's - 25th Anniversary", which is available at www.markemersondonnelly.com/shop/

The polyphony at the end is from "Pater Noster" (2017) by Mark Emerson Donnelly. To hear the complete Pater Noster go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rd0ZYJs1w0\
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