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I'm sorry if this topic has been discussed before (if it has please post the link) but this is another area in my family's lives that I would like to have reflect a more Catholic culture....
Currently I am a hopeless 80's girl and now thanks to Charlotte Mason it is sprinkled with classical music from the Great Composers but only a couple times a week.
What I am really looking for now that my two oldest daughters are getting of the ages where music is becoming more a part of their daily lives is not just Christian music (from the radio), Classic Rock 'n Roll (my husband loves) but good Catholic Christian music.
Right now I only have a couple CDs by The Hands but one daughter likes their music the other does not. And this is the limit of my Catholic music 
I would also like to incorporate more 'hymn' singing in the morning where we do an assembly / prayer time at the family altar but again I am musically challenged in this area also. Can anyone help us??
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I really like Danielle Rose
This cd is pricy ($26) but it is 2 cd's & the music is great!
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One of our homeschool dads here in Ohio is in a Catholic band called Romans. We really enjoy their music! You can check them out and listen to selections from their second CD at
http://www.romanscatholic.com/
My children especially love the second song.
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There have been a few threads on Catholic hymns and sources:
Marian Hymns
Music Favorites of the Latin Mass
There are also suggestions for Advent and other liturgical seasons...just do searches for music, hymns, Catholic music, catholic hymns...
HTH.
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Dear Leslie,
Today when I was in the car heading to the craft store (I wanted to buy some quilling tools and paper), I was thinking about the first day I listened to classical music. I posted about it at my blog er, I mean my "internet journal".
Catholic music is Godly music. Continue to follow your mothering intuition. It is guiding you towards holy things.
Palestrina is considered the epitome of Catholic church music. Vivaldi was a priest, so his music must be Catholic. Chant of course is Catholic.
I'm not sure if I am answering your question, if I am, I might suggest picking one piece of classical music that you like and listen to it often. Just go cold turkey on the other stuff and make it a sacrifice for your children. If your library carries the University series of lectures, you could get a video with a professor who teaches about music. The more I learn about a piece of music the more I enjoy it. (I've mentioned before the Bernstein DVD and Previn - the links are at my blog.)
I hope I am on the right track in offering suggestions.
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We really like Father Stan Fortuna's CDs. My favorite is his Traditional Catholic Hymns CD. We also have Adoration, which is good, but there is a rap song that I could do without!  Fr. Fortuna is a priest of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal and works with the poor in New York City. Anything of his that you buy goes to support his order's work. You can read more about him here.
I just bought Our Musical Year in March and I am really looking forward to using it next year with my kids. It's a singing curriculum that you can use to introduce your kids to a variety of traditional Catholic music (including chant), in addition to patriotic songs, folk songs, and fun songs.
As far as hymn singing goes, do any of your kids play the piano? Would they be interested in learning? If so, there are collections of easy arrangements of traditional Catholic hymns out there that you could use for family sing-alongs. Check out your local music store. I also hear that Alan Jemison's hymn arrangements are very good. He has several collections of traditional Catholic hymns which are arranged for the beginning pianist. You can find his music at Emmanuel Books and at Sacred Heart Books and Gifts.
Even if you don't play the piano, you may be able to borrow a few hymnals from your local parish and just sing the hymns you know together as a family, without accompaniment! Of course, I would ask before removing any hymnals.
I think you're doing a great job just by exposing your kids to classical music. I have wonderful memories of listening to classical albums with my dad as a child and really enjoying the music. What is true, good, and beautiful will naturally lead us (and our children) to the Source of all truth, goodness, and beauty.
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I really like Danielle Rose
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I agree! My dh borrowed it for a while and liked it so much too that I got him his own for his truck.
Wonderful CD on the mysteries of the rosary!!
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I just bought Our Musical Year in March and I am really looking forward to using it next year with my kids. It's a singing curriculum that you can use to introduce your kids to a variety of traditional Catholic music (including chant), in addition to patriotic songs, folk songs, and fun songs.
I think this is or was available through CHC  it looks really familiar --- hmmm!!
I also saw these We Sing Book Series in the Seton catalog that looks like music for the litergical calendar. Is anyone familiar with these and are they worth the purchase?
Again thank you soooo much everyone for the links I can't wait to browse 
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Does anyone out there like country music? If so, there is a Catholic homeschooling family in Australia who have just released their latest CD about our guardian angels (amongst other Catholic CD's he has released previously). It has won many awards at different country music gospel festivals in Australia in the last year. If you would like to hear the music, log onto my website: www.users.bigpond.com/jackgracie and then click on the highlighted word, "Bob Ricketts" and it will take you to his site. My portrait of my eldest children as cherubs is on the front cover of this CD, hence the link from my page.
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Dawnie wrote:
| We really like Father Stan Fortuna's CDs. My favorite is his Traditional Catholic Hymns CD. We also have Adoration, which is good, but there is a rap song that I could do without! Fr. Fortuna is a priest of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal and works with the poor in New York City. Anything of his that you buy goes to support his order's work. You can read more about him here. |
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You can listen to some of Father Fortuna at his Digital Audio Deli. He has several free podcasts available for download.
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I bought Our Musical Year from High Note Solutions at the Catholic homeschooling conference in KC. I've also seen it in the Emmanuel Books catalog.
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Leslie, we have a few of these and I think they are just lovely. Now keep in mind we are hardly muscially inclined people. We just recently bought our first instrument - keyboards - and are just learning to play.
But the book is very sweet with old fashioned songs including ones from the liturgical calendar. For instance the songs are arranged by season, as would occur in the school year: After Pentecost, Advent, Christmastime and After, Lent and Passiontide, Eastertide, Pentecost.
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Dawn wrote:
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Leslie, we have a few of these and I think they are just lovely. Now keep in mind we are hardly muscially inclined people. We just recently bought our first instrument - keyboards - and are just learning to play.
But the book is very sweet with old fashioned songs including ones from the liturgical calendar. For instance the songs are arranged by season, as would occur in the school year: After Pentecost, Advent, Christmastime and After, Lent and Passiontide, Eastertide, Pentecost. |
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Dawn, can you tell if this an original publication of Seton or a reprint of an older text book? I have a series of Catholic music textbooks "We Sing and Praise" series by Ginn and Company (copyright 1962) with similiar titles.
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JennGM wrote:
| Dawn, can you tell if this an original publication of Seton or a reprint of an older text book? I have a series of Catholic music textbooks "We Sing and Praise" series by Ginn and Company (copyright 1962) with similiar titles. |
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Yes, it says inside the book jacket reprinted by Seton Press, 1998. The original publisher was Ginn and Co. in 1957.
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aussieannie wrote:
Does anyone out there like country music? If so, there is a Catholic homeschooling family in Australia who have just released their latest CD about our guardian angels (amongst other Catholic CD's he has released previously). It has won many awards at different country music gospel festivals in Australia in the last year. If you would like to hear the music, log onto my website: www.users.bigpond.com/jackgracie and then click on the highlighted word, "Bob Ricketts" and it will take you to his site. My portrait of my eldest children as cherubs is on the front cover of this CD, hence the link from my page.
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Anne, it's a lovely print....
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I have a brother-in-law who is a Catholic youth minister. (I was one as well up until 8 years ago, but am way too out of touch with teen culture to know much now! ) Anyway, he highly recommends both Danielle Rose and Father Stan Fortuna, who have both been mentioned here.
I do have another recommendation, however. We have a cd that someone sent to dh as part of his work. He brought it home and I've been really enjoying it. It's described as contemporary Celtic Christian music, produced and recorded by Paul Mac Aree in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It's definitely Catholic, and not just Christian. Two of the songs are renditions of Pange Lingua and Tantum Ergo. Others are original songs based on scriptures, the life of St. Patrick, etc.
St. Brendan's Collection Volume 1
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Thank you Jenn! - also I have thought that in the past EWTN has had series or programs showcasing great Catholic musicians throughout the US, Life on the Rock often has them too - it is definately an avenue worth checking out.
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Magdalen College has lovely CD which the students produce Magdalen College music
The Franciscans of the Immaculate have several CDs with beautiful Catholic music here's one that Ignatius Press carries.
(I couldn't seem to get into the Friar's Bookstore)
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If you go to catholicmusicnetwork.com you can listen to snippets of different Catholic music. We've found some we all enjoy.
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