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Archive for category Music: Chant
I have posted four “mystagogical musical musings” at the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy on four of the longer congregational chants: the Glory to God, the Holy, Holy, Holy, the Lord’s Prayer, and the Lamb of God. I look at both the new text and the new English chant settings.
Chant in 1936
Jul 27
Here is a fascinating article from 1936 Orate Fratres (now Worship), “Why People Do Not Like Chant.”
The Chant Café…
Jul 21
…only began five weeks ago. I think I already know what the café is about.
NPM in Detroit, Thursday
Jul 15
You can be sure that NPM will follow the full range of the Church’s teachings and directives in all this. I think only a few zealots will be disappointed.
Chant this summer
Jun 4
Chant conferences and workshops being offered this summer
Anyone up for a bit of calm, soothing Gregorian chant in the midst of it all?? Here’s “Mitte manum” from Second Sunday of Easter.
Catholic Music Throughout the Ages
Subtitle: Balancing the Needs of a Worshipping Church
Edward Schaefer MSM DMA
Hillenbrand Books, an imprint of Liturgy Training Publications and the Liturgical Institute of the University of St Mary of the Lake (Mundelein Seminary)
xii + 204 + 54 pages of bibliography, appendices and indexes.
ISBN 978-1-59525-020-9, $28.00, available in the UK from Gracewing Publishing, £20.00
Anyone looking for an apologia for the use (in the author’s ideal world, the use exclusively) of Gregorian chant [MORE...]
Consistency and Diversity
Mar 17
Does all this hang together??
You know about the hymns vs. propers debate. As rich as the Latin propers (introit, gradual, etc.) are, they’re seemingly too difficult and inaccessible for most people, as the leaders of the liturgical movement in Europe had already started to conclude by the 1930s. Here’s what we’ve trying at St. John’s Abbey for the introit and communio when we don’t do the chant propers.