Yes. Is the concern that a monodic composition would be considered "chant" in an unapproved version, that it would contradict the wording in the DMS instruction to the effect that "Modern sacred music is likewise sung in many voice-parts, but at times with instrumental accompaniment," or something else?Is it possible to compose modern music for mass (EF) that is a single melody with lyrics accompanied by an organ and not two or more voices singing?
I ask because everything that is a version of something simple to sing the text of the proper of mass that I have seen to date is some type of psalmodic tone: I have never seen a melody in proportional rhythm with modern notation created specifically for groups that cannot have the adequate proficiency to sing the chants of the gradual or polyphonic motets and that want something more than the monotony of the Rossini-style psalmodic tone.
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