A report from Western Australia on liturgical music - of interest?
  • R J StoveR J Stove
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    In case this Australian article might interest readers of this forum; it contains nothing which such readers - especially American readers - will not have encountered 500 times before, but the fact that this stuff is finally appearing in an episcopal magazine (The Record, owned by the Archdiocese of Perth) has, perhaps, some significance.

    http://www.therecord.com.au/perspectives/editorial/on-contra-liturgical-parish-music/
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  • melofluentmelofluent
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    enough or is actually toxic to the new evangelisation on the grounds that it is too influenced by contemporary trends in pop culture is not to argue that contemporary music is bad.

    Much contemporary music is good, but it is not composed by its creators with the intention of enabling the listener to sense the existence of mystery, to inspire or to recollect.

    The problem is that a sizeable chunk of current liturgical music is either mediocre or profane, which is to say that whatever it is, it is not of the timeless nor the eternal


    I don't recall that "the problem" has been so succcinctly, yet charitably, expressed so on point. It does seem to auger our movement and conviction that begs, from near starvation, for an "otherness" that is nutrient rich in the tools we composers have at our disposal.
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