Tag: “Roman Catholic Church” (15 posts)
The Propers of the Mass: The Neglected Handmaid of the Liturgy
December 21, 2008 by — 9 comments.
Whenever I see debates about Church music, they are generally about stylistic issues, instrumentation, and the like. These debates usually center around music selection — which hymns to select and why. It’s been this way for at least as long as I’ve been involved in church music (13 years). I wish to change the terms [...]
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Contemporary Religious Music; Liturgical Reform.
Unwritten memo to composers: “Set the propers”
September 24, 2008 by — 1 comment.
In light of all of the liturgical music reform verbiage coming from diverse places like official Church organs and bloggers like myself, and as a result of reading Jeffrey Tucker’s recent reflections on William Byrd’s settings of the Mass propers, it seems that there is an implied directive to today’s and tomorrow’s composers of sacred [...]
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Contemporary Religious Music; Liturgical Reform.
“The Liturgical Music Quiz”
September 22, 2008 by — 1 comment.
The Catholic Way, a website new to me, offers this quiz written by Bill Dobbs on the history of liturgical music (with particular emphasis on the Roman Catholic Church), in a “find your fate” format. While those well-versed in the history of liturgical music should find this quiz a cinch (I found it very easy), [...]
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Quizzes.
Mediator Dei ¶11: The encyclical’s exclusive attention to the Latin rite
December 5, 2007 by — 0 comments.
Paragraph 11 of Mediator Dei points out Pope Pius XII’s intention to address this letter to the Western church, while acknowledging at a same level of honor the Eastern rites. 11. If in this encyclical letter We treat chiefly of the Latin liturgy, it is not because We esteem less highly the venerable liturgies of [...]
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Antiphons: confusing the text with the music
November 18, 2005 by — 3 comments.
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Instrumentum Laboris for the October Synod of Bishops
July 11, 2005 by — 1 comment.
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Relevant Reading.
GIRM Orthopraxis: Why sing the Creed in Latin?
June 29, 2005 by — 30 comments.
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A hierarchy of instruments, the timbral spectrum, etc.
May 22, 2004 by — 1 comment.
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