Tag: “GIA Publications” (6 posts)

Revised Grail Psalm license, as published by its agent

May 6, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra4 comments.

The Revised Grail Psalms are expected to become the official translation for worship in many of the the English-speaking dioceses of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church.  The agent administering the copyright has made its licensing provisions publicly available. (A PDF copy of this policy resides on this server for all interested in downloading [...]

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Style wars, the competent musician, and truly market-driven worship

April 29, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra4 comments.

Jeffrey Herbert at The Authentic Update has been following the discussion at the Gotta Sing Gotta Pray blog post highlighted yesterday on this site, and has commented on it at length (reproduced below with links, footnotes, comments, and emphases): A commenter asked the following question after listening to several clips from the latest settings of [...]

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Gray-area physical reproduction of copyrighted ritual texts and attendant royalty issues

April 20, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra1 comment.

Jeffrey Tucker has received some updates on the ICEL text copyright issue, yet he cannot disclose any details or sources.  Read the entire piece on NLM; it deserves attention. Here, however, I wish to highlight this following passage (links, footnotes, and emphasis added): Now, in what seems to be a new policy, ICEL has been [...]

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On needless repetition in the Ordinary Form Mass

April 16, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra2 comments.

Earlier this year on the MusicaSacra Forum, “Pes” makes a few observations about needless repetitions in the Roman Rite. Some background: while repetitive elements such as the second Confiteor had already been omitted from the missal in the 1962 revision, other elements were subject to the pruning shears of the Consilium headed by Archbishop Bugnini, [...]

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Just in time for Christmas

December 24, 2002 by Aristotle A. Esguerra3 comments.

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The great Catholic hymnal replacement debate

September 16, 2002 by Aristotle A. Esguerra59 comments.

It has been brought up at staff meetings that the hymnals we currently employ (OCP’s JourneySongs) should be replaced in the near future. I cannot but heartily agree—JS is possessed by numerous annoying quirks. Consider the following statement from OCP’s website. The editorial excellence, elegant design and fine artisanship you’ve come to expect from OCP [...]

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