The Recovering Choir Director

Church Documents

Listed below in alphabetical order are documents from Rome and other church organs concerning sacred music.

It is the author’s firm conviction that any pronouncements on sacred music from bodies that answer to the Vatican are to be adhered to only inasmuch as they adhere to these documents.

Chirograph of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II for the Centenary of the Motu Proprio “Tra le Sollecitudini” on Sacred Music
- 2003.11.22

De musica sacra
- 1958.09.03

Divini cultus
- 1928.12.20

General Instruction of the Roman Missal (with U.S. adaptations)
- 2003.04.02

Inter sollicitudines
- 1903.11.22

Liturgiam authenticam
- 2001.03.28

Mediator Dei
- 1947.11.30

Musicae sacrae
- 1955.12.25

Musicam sacram
- 1967.03.05

Redemptionis Sacramentum
- 2004.03.25

Sacrosanctum concilium
- 1963.12.04

Spiritus et Sponsa
- 2003.12.04

Voluntati obsequens
- 1974.04.14