but encourages the straight text from the Bible to be set to music
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I don't think that music is that important to many bishops.
Whatever happened to the Spirit of Vatican 2? -I don't believe some get much seminary training in music.
SC 115. Great importance is to be attached to the teaching and practice of music in seminaries, in the novitiates and houses of study of religious of both sexes, and also in other Catholic institutions and schools. To impart this instruction, teachers are to be carefully trained and put in charge of the teaching of sacred music.
... Many propers would not qualify.but encourages the straight text from the Bible to be set to music
Are you referring to the chopping up of fragments, as in one of this weeks OF Communion antiphons "You have prepared a table before me, and how precious is the chalice that quenches my thirst"? Perhaps you could enlarge on this thesis.Many propers would not qualify.
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