Paul_D

This error gets repeated over and over again.

There is no 3-fold list in Musicam Sacram that prioritizes what should be sung.

It clearly states in no. 28: ... for the su…

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Guidelines for Liturgical Music in Canada are published in the CCCB's "A Companion to the Catholic Book of Worship III". Number 35 states: " ... Normally, the entire song is sung…

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The recent thread with the newbie/seminarian is a case in point. Something went wrong, and I wondered if I should continue posting here because of the overall tone that ensued. Yes, he was wrong, y…

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Having touched on the idea of obbligato in that other thread, I offer you my smile of the day. The clever author of the Wikipedia entry on obbligato cites typical examples from across the centuries,…

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Well, I still wish we had more harp-playing priests.

[Note to self: must get around to writing that fantasia for harp with serpent obbligato.]

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Yes, he should not muck around with the Eucharistic Prayer. (-1) But he plays the harp! (+2). I enjoyed his recital. It was 10 minutes of peace in the middle of my day.

The Somervi…

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The celebrant in the video seems to be the harpist in a related video. Very pleasant playing. We should have more harp-playing priests.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jvaZbJejJ0

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Even though your predecessors may have slapped down the malefactors in the past, ...
Brilliant, Noel!

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Other people who were there say other things. Rather than trust hearsay, I go with what is obvious in the written record that was eventually agreed upon by the majority. There will never be peace i…

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They were used as a tool to make the Mass appear more protestant, to welcome protestants into the faith.
Actually they were introduced to foster active participation. This is evident from the…

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As Adam suggests, Ben, I think you are approaching the Missal rubrics as if they were written by a computer programmer. I'm sure the writers put simplicity (and perhaps even elegance) before st…

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If that's the case, then why would the missal say to omit both in some places, and to only omit the Penitential Act in other places?

Because the committee that devised the rubrics…

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The USCCB explanation makes perfect sense to me, and is a good model of how we answer questions when the rubrics in a particular place are vague: by examining more explicit instructions in all forms …

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That Syriac hymn Liam posted is stunning:

Day is dawning upon us; the power of darkness is fading away.
From the true Light there arises for us the light which illumines our dar…

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If it's happening at the seminary, there is hope for the future. But priests of a certain generation might never come around. Some of your neighbouring parishes might have dealt with this. I …

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Andrew -- pardon my particularity, but your comment is not a correct reading of Musicam sacram, and I think it is critical to make a distinction here.

The "degrees" are not…

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The IGMR uses the term chorus (choir) only once, giving it as an alternate term for schola cantorum in n. 113. There is no intention to distinguish between a schola cantorum and some other group of …

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A priest, reading the Gospel of the Annunciation, read the angelic salutation as, "Greetings, flavored one!" The concelebrants clearly heard the slip, and broke out in a sweat trying to ke…

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The most commonly overlooked criterion is that the cross for veneration must be beautiful. "For the veneration of the Cross, let a cross be used that is of appropriate size and beauty ...."…

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