Is there a foremost authority on church teaching regarding liturgical music?
For example, my priest who says the latin mass (extraordinary form) says women are not allowed to be in scholas--that scholas are only for men unless a woman is in a convent. Is that true? I suppose it has been historical practice, but is there actual church teaching that prohibits women from singing with men in a schola or singing in their own (I don't mean choir, I mean a gregorian chant schola)?
Also, is there church aurthority that says women not allowed to sing gregorian chant during the extraordinary form of the mass? What about the introit and the offeratory?
What if a parish of limited resources has men and women who both want to sing chant during mass, can they sing together during the extraordinary form?
Pius X, with his staunch admonitions against the heresy of all heresies, i.e., modernism, would recoil at the thought of a "time sensitive" aspect to his pronouncements.
Did it happen before 1962?
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