ChoirDirectorWithPracticalQuestion:
Question have I! In situation X, what is the rule/tradition/current-practice/past-practice? Does anyone know how to answer this question I have?

WantsToBeHelpfulButIsnt:
I don't know the answer to your question, but in my (extremely limited) experience, let me tell you what I think the right answer is, or at least what it might be, or perhaps what I wish it was.
Sorry I cannot be more helpful. Perhaps ExpertInTheseMatters could chime in here?

ExpertInTheseMatters:
Well, it really depends on the situation, although WantsToBe is at least partially correct. It depends on your reading of the following

Hic nonnulla latine de longissima et insigni documento. Utinam Latin leguntur, esset valde benevolens. Sed re vera non expedit hoc in casu omnino, quia hic soli forte legentibus novi Latin resolutio principale quaesitum. Ergo causa longo sermone posuisse non patrio loquentes obscurus. Forte ille qui est respondere quaestioni in spissam ut re liturgica non intellegit plerique Videntes pauca Latin Si nulla est.

When read through the lens of traditional practice, it's pretty clear that this means something specific. Although several French monks would claim that it means something entirely different.

ChoirDirectorWithPracticalQuestion:
Are you saying it's a specific thing, or some other specific thing that is good? I'm sorry, my Latin isn't what it used to be.

PragmatistChantLover:
I'm not sure I understand the big deal here, particularly considering all the other things we have to worry about, why this relatively minor point is even an issue.

ManWithBowTie:
I used to have strong feelings about this issue. You should see some of the conversations between me and UberCatholicMusicologist. But then I realized that if we all just stop using shaving cream and start singing more chant, no matter how we sing the chant, life will get better. I read an old magazine recently, and it's clear this argument has been going on for a long time.

UberCatholicMusicologist:
It's interesting that this was brought up. I just completed a 16-hour documentary exploring what some French monk that no one has ever heard of has to say about this very controversy. He died a long time ago.

WantsToBeHelpfulButIsnt:
It's good to know that what I've been doing is at least partially correct.

AmphibiousChoirMan:
I may or may not format the following series of non-specific responses in such way that makes sense to anyone reading this. This reminds me of somethng I read once. References to things you don't know about. The third line of the Latin reads, "this is a translation from LATIN." Ha Ha
Thankfully we have experts who here who can prompt my self-deprecating on this point. I was under the impoession that it was a specific thing, but clearly it's a different specific thing.
Haec verba Latina.

YetAnotherPragmatist:
In the reality of today's parish life, when is this even going to be an issue? I just wish I could stop singing the music of a composer I don't like.

TraditionalistHeretic:
I'm a progressive, liberal heretic who likes banjos and clown mass, and even I agree with something someone else said.
Sheesh!

WantsToBeHelpfulButIsnt:
Of course in this case it all comes down to how supportive your pastor is.

TraditionalistHeretic:
My pastor is very supportive on these matters. Probably because he's Episcopalian and they pretty much go along with anything.

AmphibiousChoirMan:
Ha ha!

ExpertInTheseMatters:
Kudos to UberCatholicMusicologist. Excellent documentary. I just wanted to add that when I was working personally with that old dead French monk, he said some things that would really shed some light on this issue.
Would you believe that instead of this specific thing, he did this other specific thing that was remarkably similar?

UberCatholicMusicologist:
I did hear that, but I didn't want to spend too much time on that controversy, as the video was only intended as an introduction to the topic.

ChimerInner:
Wait, is the original question about the EF or the OF?

ChoirDirectorWithPracticalQuestion:
OF

WantsToBeHelpfulButIsnt:
Well, in THAT case, you can probably just do anything you want.

ExpertInTheseMatters:
I believe the legislation on this point is either less clear or more clear regarding the OF as compared to the EF. Regardless, the practice has always been this specific thing.

ChoirDirectorWithPracticalQuestion:
Great. Thanks. I'll do the specific thing.

:::Several Days Pass:::

ChoirDirectorWithPracticalQuestion:
Well it turns out that my pastor wanted to do it in some other specific way.
But we did do some other thing which almost made it better.
Brick by brick, I suppose.

:::Several years pass:::

NewbieEFlover:
I know I'm a little late on this, but at the EF Mass I went to recently (at St. such-and-such, staffed by the monks of so-and-so) they did it the specific way.
It was great!