This is fantastic. It's absolutely crucial that this be an overall parish repertory: parish liturgies, CCD/RE, and school. The common pattern of dividing the musical activities of these segments of parish life results in aesthetic and theological trainwrecks. It's unbelievably discouraging to any process of 'reforming the reform' to have excellent music at (most of) the Sunday Masses and then to have the school music classes and Masses full of OCP/Haugen/Haas, etc. Excluding second-rate music from any context involving children is arguably as important as improving the actual liturgical repertory in a parish, and may indeed be more difficult for most pastors to effect. As it stands now, children in public school and children being homeschooled stand a better chance of being exposed to excellent church music than kids in Catholic schools. Again, this is a profoundly sad state of affairs and needs to be addressed directly and effectively.

I think of my youth schola as a way of turning expectations upside down. The chant is too hard! It's old-fashioned! Kids need rock and roll!

And then the little cherubs sing a Gregorian introit. Bwaahahaha!

But for some places, you start with the children. Incarnation begins early.

These are the standard and the Repertoire for the School Masses. The School has a music program and a part time teacher, but there is nothing sacred in the curriculum. YET!!!! (I've only been asking for five years)

But wait, it needs to go further than the music. Other minimum things include:
Posture at liturgy (sitting,standing, silence, responses).
Basic Catholic prayers
Names of sacred objects used at mass and vestments (name and color)
The liturgical year
Other things: corporal works of mercy, cardinal virtues, gifts of the Holy Spirit,etc.

All things I require for the liturgy and prayer parts of my curriculum goals (RSCM adapted for Catholics)

Wow, almost everything on the traditional list is in the Parish Book of Chant. Only a couple of exceptions. Father Keyes seems to have excellent taste.
Under Advent, what does "The Prophecies" refer to? I'm not familiar with that.

The list of hymn tunes looks very good too, but one always has to be careful about specific texts and variations thereof that go with the tunes.

Kathy, thanks for that point. I'm scheduled to talk to kids at my parish on Friday about chant. I was planning to tell them about "Agnus Dei" and St John the Baptist.

Mia, Just back from the camp and my talk.

I started by chanting from St Matthew's Gospel about the Last Supper, ending with '...after singing a hymn, they went up to the Mount of Olives."
So I talked about how the Mass, the Church, the Gospel, and the singing all went together in the history of the Church. How there is special music for Mass, that comes from the Scripture--we offer back to God what He has given to us.

We sang the simple Agnus Dei, which they had been practicing all week, mentioning St John, thanks Kathy.
Their schola and I demostrated today's Communio for the Feast of St Thomas, which the two of us also sang at Mass.
From the alleluias in the Communio, I sequed into the Christmas Day Alleluia and had them sing back the first part. About 20 minutes all told.
They also sang pretty well at Mass, Kyrie, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.

A lot of those pieces of music are not interesting at best and dreary at worst. Has there not been ONE good hymn written in the past hundred years, or was research for this list minimal and intuitive? Is this an effort to make Catholics better and their praise more perfect, or is this a effort to foist one's own beloved repertoire choices on everyone else in the parish?

Reading the whole two-page document is hard also, but the second page explicitly credits several songs to Deiss, Joncas, and the Taize community.

Among the 75 hymns and songs on that page, 15, count 'em, fifteen of them were composed in the past 100 years.

For that matter, Jeffrey Keyes used to compose contemporary Catholic songs, so he knows his way around the topic.

I'm wondering if this list might have evolved a bit since 2009.
Perhaps someone can summon the wonderful Fr. Keyes to our midst.

Oh, he just really wants a Chicago deep dish pizza, a Giants game on, his dog and baseball cap, and he's set. Ask Sam D.
Richard, I ever tell ya that JK/Presence and my group used to team up for concerts? I'll tell you about the one with John Michael Talbot one day.

Darn, I didn't know JK had a romantic side!;-)

Saint Edward Catholic School: Mass for Thursday of the First Week of the Year
Entrance: "Songs of Thankfulness and Praise" ... SALZBURG
Kyrie XVI
Responsorial Psalm 95 ... Tone VIII setting by Rev Jeffrey R. Keyes, CPPS
Alleluia Tone VIII with Verse ... Graduale Simplex
Offertory Anthem: "Psalm 95: O Come, Let Us Sing" ... Colin Mawby (The Choir)
Sanctus XVIII
Memorial Acclamation & Amen: "Festival Eucharist" ... Proulx, rev. 2010
"Our Father" (sung in English)
Agnus Dei VIII
Communio: "Notas mihi" ... SIMPLE ENGLISH PROPERS by Adam Bartlett (Cantors & Choir alternate on verses)
Closing Hymn: "Alma Redemptoris Mater" ... Tonus simplex

This is what really takes place at our school masses. This years's Choir is 24. We have four student cantors (selected from upper grades). We sing from the gallery in the rear.

While that may not be the most inspiring playing I've ever heard, @nycsongs, that doesn't mean that Rendez a Dieu isn't an awesome hymn tune. It is a classic, excellent tune.

Try this performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTzhSOlBACo

Resurrecting two and three year old Discussions.
And replying as if posts were yesterday?
I do not get it.

In this case, an eight-year-old discussion: oi!

E I G H T !!!

(YEARS!!!!)

To be fair - it wasn't eight consecutive years since the first post.

And Hawkins is right - hearing people balk at the age of something on this forum is priceless.

Give it a few millennia, MJO. I'm sure future musicologists will be commenting on the style and attributes of various postings here. (I'm sure they'll have a field day deciphering periods in yellow boxes! :D )