DM's bookcase
  • ryandryand
    Posts: 1,640
    Which writings (not sheet music, that's another list!) do you think are essential on the bookshelves of a Roman Rite DM?

    GIRM
    Sacrosanctum Concilium
    Spirit of the Liturgy
    SttL
    Olmsted's series Sing the Mass
    Tra le sollecitudini
    Musicale Sacrae

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  • matthewjmatthewj
    Posts: 2,700
    It's 2013 - no bookshelf is required. Put a folder on your desktop.
    Thanked by 3Mark Husey Ben marajoy
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,979
    When Sheep Attack. Also, The Art of War can be useful.
    Thanked by 2Mark Husey Kathy
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
    Posts: 6,482
    Ecclesiastes
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
    Posts: 6,482
    and Job
  • Musicteacher56
    Posts: 621
    I need Job, that's for sure.
  • Mark HuseyMark Husey
    Posts: 192
    I had a DSM IV out on my desk. Stopped a lot of needless conversations dead in their tracks.
    Thanked by 3Aristotle Esguerra Ben Ralph Bednarz
  • BenBen
    Posts: 3,114
    @matthew

    Or phone.
  • SalieriSalieri
    Posts: 3,177
    +Sample's Pastoral Letter on Sacred Music
    Thanked by 2irishtenor ryand
  • JahazaJahaza
    Posts: 470
    An Ordo for your diocese

    The Ceremonial of Bishops

    Peter Elliott's "Ceremonies of the Modern Roman Rite" and "Ceremonies of the Liturgical Year"

    Fortescue's "Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described," even if you don't have the EF, because it sheds essential light on what the reform was reforming from.

    "Documents on the Liturgy 1963-1975"

    You should have read, "Why Catholics Can't Sing," by Thomas Day, but I'm not sure you need to keep it on your shelf.
  • SalieriSalieri
    Posts: 3,177
    Fortescue's "Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described," even if you don't have the EF, because it sheds essential light on what the reform was reforming from.


    Make sure you get the new edition, updated by Alcuin Reid, in light of Summorum Pontificum.

    Should also have "The Musical Shape of the Liturgy" by our own Prof. Mahrt
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