Music for the Jubilee Year
  • StimsonInRehabStimsonInRehab
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    Is anyone planning anything to celebrate the Jubilee next year? (My pastor would like to do something in celebration, so any suggestions would be quite welcome.)
  • RoborgelmeisterRoborgelmeister
    Posts: 177
    This was not on my radar. "Pilgrims of Hope" is certainly a rich theme.

    https://www.usccb.org/committees/jubilee-2025
  • Liam
    Posts: 5,116
    In case anyone is looking for texts of special Propers:

    https://www.usccb.org/resources/mass-holy-year.pdf
  • ChurchMusician
    Posts: 11
    Can anyone provide information on the copyright permissions for the music, lyrics, and audio files for the official hymn? I didn't see anything on the web site or on the sheet music itself. Perhaps I missed it?
    https://www.iubilaeum2025.va/en/giubileo-2025/inno-giubileo-2025.html
  • Marc Cerisier
    Posts: 542
    I’m actually the person that engraved the English score that’s on the Vatican site… there’s no copyright on that score because there wasn’t one on the Italian score I was working from. It’s the property of the church, so my understanding is that it’s all 100% free to share and use.
    Thanked by 2CHGiffen Fr. Jim Chepponis
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 2,367
    Well…maybe. The Holy See is not really consistent, but the lack of a copyright symbol does not mean anything except that if someone were to abuse the generosity of the Holy See, it would have to register in a country such as the USA before receiving damages.

    I agree that the implication is that the music can be used without payment and with a minimal licensing requirement, i.e. none, since nothing is listed. But that's not typical for the Holy See. In fact, someone should ask Msgr. Wadsworth.
  • igneusigneus
    Posts: 392
    The Italian and other version available on the website do have author names and copyright notices. No license terms are explicitly stated, though.
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 2,367
    Not that "All Rights Reserved" really means much, because the Buenos Aires Convention isn't in force anymore (in fact the current norms are that no notice is required for protection to be granted, except where domestic law requires it for damages), and because some countries (above all France) do not allow moral rights to be transferred generally speaking, but economic rights may always be transferred, but it complicates the idea that it's simply free to use. They need to explicitly state the terms in the same way that ICEL does.
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