by James E. Frazier
“GIA has successfully kept in touch with the evolution of liturgical music since Vatican II, monitored the changing temper of the musical times, and in its latest volume, despite its faults, the company’s Worship–Fourth Edition presents a mature proposal for a liturgical music that is worthy of the church and its future.”
Archive for category Music: Hymns
There is great excitment about the future (and present!) of congregational song,
60% of the 1990 Presbyterian hymnal will brought into the 2013 hymnal. This will comprise 40% of the new hymnal – sturdier and thinner paper makes possible a larger book which still isn’t unwieldy.
CCMLA: June 18-21
May 12
Fifty years after the opening of the Second Vatican Council in 1962 and in our first year implementing the new English missal, the Collegeville Conference on Music, Liturgy and the Arts looks at cultural diversity (how do we include ‘the other’?), generational diversity (where are the youth?), liturgical diversity (are we going backward or forward?), and diversity in architectural and musical styles. How is the Holy Spirit holding “the many” of us together?
Best of Lent 2012
Apr 5
Editor’s picks of stuff online that was memorable—even outstanding—this Lent.
Here is my hymn text for Palm Sunday in Year B of the Roman Catholic three-year Sunday lectionary cycle. I look forward to readers’ suggestions for changes in word choice, rhyme scheme, progress of thought, and hymn-tune pairing. This is the last in the series of hymns texts that I will be posting.
What makes a hymn Catholic?
Mar 20
“…There are good reasons for Catholics to sing hymns—and Protestant hymns, at that. Even as they strive for excellence in Gregorian chant and other areas of musical renewal, Catholics would do well to remember what good hymns can do and why excellence in hymn-singing should be part of the Catholic liturgical renewal.”
Hymn of the Day for Lent 5B
Mar 18
Here is my hymn text for the Fifth Sunday of Lent in the B Cycle of the Roman Catholic three-year Sunday lectionary cycle. I look forward to readers’ suggestions for changes in word choice, rhyme scheme, progress of thought, and hymn-tune pairing.
Hymn of the Day for Lent 4B
Mar 11
Here is my hymn text for the Fourth Sunday of Lent in the B Cycle of the Roman Catholic three-year Sunday lectionary cycle. I look forward to readers’ suggestions for changes in word choice, rhyme scheme, progress of thought, and hymn-tune pairing.