Tag: “Sacrosanctum Concilium” (24 posts)
“Sing to the Lord” – an out-of-context citation?
August 4, 2009 by — 0 comments.
When the USCCB document Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship (SttL) was released almost two years ago, I did a quick once-over of it, and seeing that it more or less harmonized with the Vatican II Constitution on the Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium (SSC) and the 1967 Instruction Musicam Sacram (MS), I paid it [...]
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Participatio actuosa and the next generation of church musicians
April 28, 2009 by — 1 comment.
Here’s a thoughtful post from Mara Joy, who with others in her generation will be responsible for parish music programs in the near future. Reproduced below with footnotes, links, comments, and emphases:
In addition to my usual interest in all things liturgical and musical, I have recently decided that I am going to back to grad [...]
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Singing the Mass versus singing at Mass – the last word?
April 23, 2009 by — 4 comments.
An article from Susan Benofy, published in the November 2007 edition of the Adoremus Bulletin with the title “Singing the Mass: we cannot say that one song is as good as another”, is making the rounds at the MusicaSacra Forum and the New Liturgical Movement. Read the article here.
The focus of the discussion centers [...]
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Sacred music must reflect the sanctity of the words
April 22, 2009 by — 2 comments.
“rightwingprof”, a new commenter to this site who blogs at Central Pennsylvania Orthodox, recently shared a wonderful source of liturgical music for the Eastern Churches — OrthodoxTwoPartMusic.org.
I firmly believe that much, if not all, of the music available at this source should serve as a conceptual model for composers of the Roman Rite who desire [...]
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Credo I, in segmented mp3 files
April 18, 2009 by — 5 comments.
The Second Vatican Council called for steps to be taken so that the faithful may also be able to say or to sing together in Latin those parts of the Mass which pertain to them, regardless of how predominant the usage of the vernacular could and indeed has become.[1] Given the widespread musical illiteracy of [...]
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On needless repetition in the Ordinary Form Mass
April 16, 2009 by — 2 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, such [...]
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“Maine-taining” the tradition of Gregorian chant
April 14, 2009 by — 0 comments.
George Myers, Jr. of the Kennebec Journal interviews Jay Violette, a Catholic layman promoting the spirituality of Gregorian chant in central Maine (links, footnotes, emphases, and comments added):
Gregorian chanting helps renew his faith
WATERVILLE — Jay Violette shares the Holy Spirit in a way that few can nowadays. [But that is changing through personal initiative and [...]
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Lessons in liturgical music from the Light of the East
March 31, 2009 by — 1 comment.
From Catholic News Agency via the Catholic Anchor newspaper of the Archdiocese of Anchorage comes this interview with two Eastern Rite cantors. Below are some excerpts from the article that Roman Catholics would do well to reflect on (comments and emphases added).
Byzantine singing compared to “conversation with God”
by James DeCrane
For Byzantine Catholics, the chance to [...]
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Two English-Latin sung Tenebrae resources
March 30, 2009 by — 2 comments.
In the Roman Rite, Tenebrae — the “Office of Darkness” — combines Matins and Lauds of the Divine Office on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday.[1] While some parishes hold these liturgies, they are a distinct minority. (I myself have never assisted at Tenebrae; I didn’t know such a thing existed until one of [...]
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Theology’s aural side
March 12, 2009 by — 2 comments.
Scelata highlights a recent ZENIT Letter to the Editor:
A response to: Theology’s Visual Side
When one reads this article I believe you could easily replace the words “icon/iconography” with “liturgical music” and the same principles should apply. The principles described in this article are so often lacking when it comes to the arrangement and visual side [...]
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Catholic Punditry; Contemporary Religious Music; Devotional Music.
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