{"id":6662,"date":"2024-05-25T23:02:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T23:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=6662"},"modified":"2024-07-16T23:04:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T23:04:49","slug":"an-electronic-hymn-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2024\/05\/25\/an-electronic-hymn-board\/","title":{"rendered":"an electronic hymn board"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next stop was Prague, a city I’d never previously visited. On Sunday I went to the main Mass at Our Lady before T\u00fdn, where the choir located in the west gallery) was accompanied by an orchestra of significant size – I noticed a trombone player and a bassoonist, amongst others. I didn’t recognise the music, which sounded as if it could be by Michael Haydn or one of the various Czech composers of the same period. There were a couple of hymns and our hymnbooks included melodies, but I didn’t twig until too late in Veni Creator Spiritus<\/i> that the numbers were shown on an electronic display tucked into the elaborate east end. I’d never seen that before.

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The gallery at Our Lady before T\u00fdn (bassoonist on right)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Perhaps the orchestra was in honour of the feast of Pentecost, but it seemed quite natural to accompany the choir at Sunday Mass in this way. I shall remember that if I ever get to sing the Glagolitic Mass again.<\/p>\n

The following day I visited the Czech Museum of Music, which had many highly unusual instruments on view, though sadly the theremin was out of order.

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A three-manual piano which plays quarter-tones<\/p><\/div>The last thing I did before leaving was to go to the National Museum, and while I was admiring the paintings in a large hallway a string quartet turned up and started rehearsing, again as if this was completely normal. (I think they were then going to entertain a reception for a conference or similar gathering.) A pleasant memory to take away with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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