journals for sacred music
  • CGM
    Posts: 733
    A friend of mine recently asked,
    Are there any print journals in the sacred music realm, other than the Sacred Music Journal from CMAA?

    I don't know, and so I wanted to put the question here.

    There are journals for organ music, such as
    — The Diapason,
    — the AGO's The American Organist Magazine,
    — and the Organ Historical Society's journal The Tracker.
    Other notables?

    For choral music, there are the journals published by Recent Researches in Music, with specialties in Medieval/Early Renaissance music, Renaissance music, and numerous other areas. The articles are certainly not limited to church music (or even choral music), but in the Medieval and Renaissance journals specifically, there is a considerable focus on liturgical pieces. As well, A&R editions publishes a series of the complete works (Opera Omnia) of many, many composers (noteworthy for the staggering amount of extant repertory, but probably not what my interlocutor had in mind).

    The ACDA publishes The Choral Journal, but I suspect that it doesn't do a lot with church repertoire.

    Any other thoughts?
    (And I'm of course glad that my friend reads the Sacred Music Journal !)
  • GambaGamba
    Posts: 585
    The Hymn Society puts out The Hymn. NPM has Pastoral Music. Out of the UK, there's Choir and Organ. Germany has Musik und Kirche.

    These are of varied degrees of scholarly use.
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • tandrews
    Posts: 188
    Gaia Quarterly
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 8,981
    The Liturgy Society publishes Antiphon, which is more broadly about liturgy.
  • CGM
    Posts: 733
    um... is "Gaia Quarterly" supposed to be "GIA Quarterly"...?
    Thanked by 3francis Jeffrey Quick tandrews
  • kevinfkevinf
    Posts: 1,201
    The B16 Center in San Francisco now publishes Cantate! A Sacred Music journal online.
    Latest issue:https://substack.com/@cantate
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • tandrews
    Posts: 188
    Yup, I forgot to /purple it!
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,433
    There is the Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society's quarterly journal.
    Also, the American Musicological Society.
    I also commend Choir and Organ mentioned above,
    though it is an exceptionally beautiful monthly magazine rather than a Society Journal.
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • mmeladirectress
    Posts: 1,111
    >> um... is "Gaia Quarterly" supposed to be "GIA Quarterly"...?

    in some parishes, yes.
    Thanked by 1FSSPmusic
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