Open sourcing sacred music
  • Jeffrey TuckerJeffrey Tucker
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    Some thoughts on the subject of open vs. closed source music for Church

    Part I
    Part II
    Part II
  • RagueneauRagueneau
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    Jeffrey,

    Great articles! But you really should have mentioned the million+ pages of Sacred music you have made available on MusicaSacra (or did I miss it?)

    "along with the republication of many older works" does not do your work full justice.

    That's like saying, "Bach wrote a Fugue....along with many other works."

    I mean, you have the Britt translations of Hymns, you have Ward books, Antiphonales, Graduals, Libers, old & new treatises, etc. etc. It is magnificent!

    What you have made available online, Jeffrey is....too great to even speak about. It is too wonderful. So generous. So amazing.

    This is really the beginning of something so incredible!

    I know that the Vatican has also publicly commended MusicaSacra, which is awesome.
  • janetgorbitzjanetgorbitz
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    I'm proud to be a member!
  • Jeffrey TuckerJeffrey Tucker
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    Well, next week is going to bring an amazing surprise to our community...

    All this blah blah blah on my part really is leading somewhere.
  • RagueneauRagueneau
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    "next week is going to bring an amazing surprise to our community... "

    WAY TO KEEP US IN SUSPENSE !!!!
  • chonakchonak
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    Hm... is it all right to speculate? What would we like to see licensed for open-source use that isn't yet?
  • Jeffrey TuckerJeffrey Tucker
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    chonak, what would that be?
  • chonakchonak
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    Well, these items come to mind:

    1) The new ICEL Roman Missal;
    2) The Conception Abbey Revised Grail Psalter (which has the unfortunate abbreviation CARG);
    3) The published works of Solesmes;
    4) The musical works of Theodore Marier.

    By the way, if I've guessed rightly, the proper response is:
    "Bingo, as we Catholics say."
  • Jeffrey TuckerJeffrey Tucker
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    1,2, and 4 would take a truly historic divine intervention on the level of the parting of the Red Sea. I think we'll have to wait a few more years for that.
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