The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #92693 Message #1774861
Posted By: Joe Offer
03-Jul-06 - 01:27 PM
Thread Name: I've lost my Catholic music page
Subject: RE: I've lost my Catholic music page
Hi, Leeneia - try this one and the other links listed on the page. The Ultimate Catholic MIDI Collection may also be of interest to you. Maybe I can find something at these sites to make less work for myself. I've taken to entering my own MIDIs for hymns recently, to help me learn the bass and tenor parts. I used to be lazy and sing just the melody, but we hired the Choir Director of My Dreams, and she's making me work harder than I've ever worked in a choir. Entering a MIDI with four lines of music is darn hard work, but this choir director has me bamboozled into thinking that it's essential that I learn the parts so I can "carry the bass part" or "carry the tenor part" when one or the other is weak. I know it's just a cheap appeal to my vanity - but it works. I wish the Catholic music publishers would make MIDI files available to us sight-reading-challenged choir members who need to learn new music.
Here's the list of links at the "Ultimate Catholic MIDI Collection" (all at www.abcsoffaith.com):
I can't say I'm thrilled with most of the Catholic hymn MIDI files I've found on the Web, but Bob Sorem's Hymn MIDI Sequences looks very good at first glance. I'm not thrilled with this page but it has a MIDI for "Hail Glorious St. Patrick," and you'll never know when you might need to learn that one.... -Joe-