melporcristo Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 JMJT Hey Pham, The high school students at the school I teach at are putting together an apostolate this year and they are in desperate need of help. They are putting together a CD of Catholic music so they can give the CD's away totally free to people on the streets. Their missions is to spread the Gospel to the world about Christ and His Church. So far they only have 3 songs and need 11 more. They don't have a preference on genres but are looking for a variety of Catholic music that the secular world might like. Let me know if you are interested in helping them out with this apostolate. Pray about it and get back to me. To Jesus through Mary, Melissa poncemellie@gmail.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizabeth09 Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 There are some songs that I sang at school and church. Here they are: Here I am to wroship, trading my sorrows, Here I am, Lord and Big House are Catholic music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 I like Matt Maher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MStar Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 I like Toby Mac, he's not Catholic but his songs are Christian and his lyrics are awesome (at least on the one CD I have, Portable Sounds). He's some mix between pop and rap, very fun stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doe-jo Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Is this a big choir? Or... just a small band? Well, If you want an exclusive catholic song (songs only catholics have), you can never go wrong with polyphony - Mozart, Bach, Palestrina. Catholic Rock songs have no difference with Protestant Rock songs.. Maybe unless if the lyrics have Mary or the Saints in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissyP89 Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 (edited) If you want traditional: Victoria Palestrina Biebl Josquin Faure Handel If you want contemporary: Matt Maher Cheer Up Charlie Tenth Avenue North BarlowGirl Nichole Nordeman etc etc. Edited March 11, 2009 by MissyP89 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LouisvilleFan Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 [url="http://www.thepriests.com/"]The Priests[/url]! Just curious... are they buying the copyrights for all these songs to give them away? You can get away with that on an individual level among a few friends, but doing this as an apostolate could get you into some legal trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melporcristo Posted March 11, 2009 Author Share Posted March 11, 2009 JMJT Ok, I should have put this as a BIG PS - but we want unsigned musicians who would have no problem in donating their music. Thus why the girls couldn't have the groups you all mentioned. (Matt Maher is my fave too! but unfortunately, he's pretty big & we'd run into having to pay up to have his music on there). Like I said, if you are a musician interested in helping us out, that would be amazing. To Jesus through Mary, Melissa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melporcristo Posted March 11, 2009 Author Share Posted March 11, 2009 [quote name='LouisvilleFan' post='1803926' date='Mar 11 2009, 02:42 PM'][url="http://www.thepriests.com/"]The Priests[/url]! Just curious... are they buying the copyrights for all these songs to give them away? You can get away with that on an individual level among a few friends, but doing this as an apostolate could get you into some legal trouble.[/quote] yea ... I totally agree. PLUS thats totally not legit in my moral code. I totally believe in supporting artists financially!!! See my post ^ there ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LouisvilleFan Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 Look into podsafe music (several links [url="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=podsafe+music&aq=0&oq=podsafe"]here[/url]). You should be able to find some Catholic artists and songs in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icelandic_iceskater Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 I'm pretty sure popple allows people to copy and use their music free of charge! If I remember correctly, there's actually a message on the inside of their album cover encouraging it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TotusTuusMaria Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 [url="http://www.bob-rice.com/bob-rice.com/Music.html"]Bob Rice[/url] [url="http://www.adambitter.com/"]Adam Bitter[/url] [url="http://www.francescoproductions.com/"]Fr. Stan[/url] Both Catholic. I believe both are "unsigned." They both seem like really great guys... very down to earth... willing to let you use their music. [url="http://www.spiritandsong.com/"]Spirit and Song[/url] - website that promotes, I believe, only Catholic artists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abercius24 Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 (edited) I'll talk to the other guys, but I'm sure we'd be interested in donating one or two of our songs. You can hear our music at [url="http://myspace.com/agonyrose"]http://myspace.com/agonyrose[/url]. "Pray Hard" and "The Cave" would be the two I'm thinking of. If you're interested in the rap track, I can ask my friend Fred-D if he'd be willing to donate, as well. I'll ask my buddies Rob from Oaks of Justice and Mike from Seven Sorrows if they would be interested, too. Just in case I forget, send me a PM later to remind me! Oh, and if you have any more details to help sell the idea, that would be nice, too! Edited March 16, 2009 by abercius24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roamin'Catholic Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 [quote name='melporcristo' post='1804058' date='Mar 11 2009, 08:00 PM']yea ... I totally agree. PLUS thats totally not legit in my moral code. I totally believe in supporting artists financially!!! See my post ^ there ...[/quote] Yeah, but what these publishing companies do with our liturgical music and texts is just not right. Here is a recent letter speaking to this phenomenon. I don't agree with everything written, but I'm glad someone is talking about this stuff! Letter from the New Oxford Review: [i]I grew up in the 1970s, and the music used then in the typical American parish (both hymns and parts of the Mass) is the music I learned. Since then, I've come to regard it with a high degree of annoyance, bordering on loathing. So I read Lucy E. Carroll's article "Why the Music is so Bad" (Oct.) with interest. As I began to pay more attention to liturgical music, I noticed something about the music often used in the liturgy today: It sounds mass-produced. One has an image of a roomful of semi-talented men, each with a keyboard and a stack of blank staff pages in front of him, spinning out songs like yarn from a jenny. The phrase "Hallmark music" comes to mind. Pondering this led me to a concept that may just offer an indirect path to restoring the sacred quality of music used in the liturgy. It has to do with a simple mechanism that the music publishers use to make money: copyright. If we, the Church, want to lift ourselves out of the musical quagmire we have made for ourselves, we must start by eschewing copyrighted music for liturgical use. The few people I've mentioned this to, when I first propose the idea, mistakenly think I'm suggesting that the Church is somehow in violation of copyright law by playing copyrighted music. They answer by pointing out to me that they get permission for the performances, etc. Let me assure you: That's not my point. I won't get into the history of copyright law and the various effects copyright has had on publishing, both good and bad, but the fundamental fact of copyright in America today is this: In order to make a copy of a copyrighted musical work, whether that copy be of an ephemeral type, such as a public performance, or a more material type, such as a lyric sheet to pass out to parishioners, one must have the permission of the owner of the copyright. When it comes to liturgical music, this is an inversion of proper subordination of the secular to the sacred. There may once have been a time when certain sacred music was banned from public performance in order to prevent the profanation of that sacred music. Such a ban may have even made sense. However, it should never go the other way. It should never be the case that the Church is under secular constraints and encumbrances regarding liturgical activity. This is true regarding both liturgical performances (reading, singing, etc.) and the practical aspects of bringing about the proper tools for participation (printing of missals for the congregation, music sheets for the choir, etc.). Music that is not completely free for performance, copying, and use of any kind by the Church should be regarded as simply unfit for liturgical use. The one reason that good liturgical music cannot come out of the modern music-publishing industry is that modern liturgical publishing (not just for music, but all aspects of it) is driven by profit. That's why all newly produced so-called liturgical music is copyrighted. Note that my proposal has nothing directly to do with the quality of music itself. Nonetheless, it seems nearly certain that if bishops were to begin enjoining their dioceses to use only music in the public domain for liturgical purposes, the quality of music used in the Mass, both in sacredness and beauty, would increase tenfold almost instantaneously.[/i] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizabeth09 Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 What is this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now