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UPDATE – REVIEW: CD –“Mater Eucharistiae”– Sacred Music from the Dominican...
Click HERE to pre-order (release 13 August) UPDATE 13 August: Today is the release date of the disc! ORIGINAL POSTING 31 July 2013 In the past I have brought to your gracious attention the music CDs...
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Two examples of music for liturgy. You decide.
A reader sent me a video which I want to pass along. Alas, the music was recorded in a concert during a music festival rather in during a Mass or singing of the hours. This is an Alma Redemptoris...
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Wherein composer James MacMillan writes about aging hippies and Church music.
I would like James MacMillan to set to music Hopkins’ The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo and also Wilbur’s The Christmas Hymn. In the meantime, from The Telegraph, I picked this up. Ancient flower...
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GUEST POST: Sacred Heart of Jesus parish in Grand Rapids, MI
CLICK TO BUY From a reader: Thank you for your blog, your collect translations, and your devotion to the Tridentine Rite. I pray for you every night before bed, please pray for me. I wanted to pass...
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Not exactly “Gather Us In”
At Catholic Education Resource Center I stumbled on a video of the great Tallis Scholars singing William Byrd, a Catholic composer who somehow survived and thrived during the reign of Elizabeth I....
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ACTION ITEM! Benedictines of Mary – new music CD for Lent
Can you believe that this coming Sunday is Septuagesima already? Many of you have enjoyed the chart-topping music CDs from the Benedictine nuns in Missouri, the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles....
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VIDEO: Children learn to sing Gregorian chant at Chant Camp!
How many of you have heard someone object to Gregorian chant on the grounds that it is tooo haaard! Right. Here is a video about a summer camp where children as young as 8 years old are learning to...
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D. Oakland, Bp. Barber: Novus Ordo Requiem, Latin, Black Vestments, Faure
The use of Latin in our liturgical worship must not be limited to the Usus Antiquior of the Roman Rite. Latin is the language if the Latin Church. That means Extraordinary and Ordinary Form alike....
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Church Music: sacred and… not so much
I received the latest issue of Sacred Music today. May I recommend that you subscribe? HERE There is so much good, artistic and sacred music that we could use in our liturgical worship. Alas, so...
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Thompson on Bad Church Music (BCM). Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Sacred liturgical music is NOT an add-on in worship. It is – and must therefore be treated as – an integrating part (pars integrans) of liturgical worship, since it is prayer, liturgical music must be...
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Contentions between liturgists and musicians: What to do?
It is too bad that, thanks to our fallen nature and the prodding of the Enemy of the soul, we have conflicts in the Church. You will, however, note right back at me that we have had arguments since...
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FANTASTIC New Sacred Music disc from The @LondonOratory Schola Cantorum Boys...
UPDATE 26 Feb: Today, as I get ready for a clerical supper, I’ve been listening to this. It’s great on the big speakers, in the car, in my ear buds. Wow. Originally Published on: Feb 14 The London...
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Pope Francis: modernity, vernacular stirred up many problems – music...
Nothing will come of this, of course, but it is nice to hear it from Pope Francis. Alas, Benedict XVI and John Paul II said similar things about music and liberals ignored them, too. Via Vatican Radio...
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ACTION ITEM! Declaration on Sacred Music – Cantate Domino – 50th anniversary...
My friend Prof. Peter Kwasniewski has been part of a project to create a Declaration on Sacred Music – Cantate Domino – on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Instruction Musicam Sacram,...
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Great news for Sacred Music promoters everywhere!
Firstly, did you know that the man who made the magnificent Garand rifle – which helped to win freedom for millions – was named John Cantius Garand? Speaking of John Cantius, I received a note from St....
View ArticleACTION ITEM! Video about the revival of a inner city parish by using actual...
I want about 15 minutes of your time. If you are a bishop or a priest or a seminarian, please give your special attention. Below is an excerpt from a documentary to be shown soon on EWTN (30 April 6:30...
View ArticleGreat new resource for your new Gregorian chant schola! Wherein Fr. Z also...
Some people on the traditional side of things are demoralized because Pope Francis has a markedly different liturgical style from that of Benedict XVI. Some might wonder if it is worth trying to...
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I have been thinking a lot about Gregorian chant these days. As often happens when I am pecking away at a subject, someone sends me a link to something useful. There is a series of videos on YouTube...
View ArticleGUEST POST: Gregorian Chant Will Save the World
Save The Liturgy – Save The Word has been a by word around this blog for a long time. I saw this on the blog The Back Of The World: Gregorian Chant Will Save the World A few weeks ago, I was sitting …...
View ArticleROME: Sacra Liturgia Conference – Day 2
Day 2 of the Sacred Liturgy conference in Rome is underway. The first talk this morning was by Gabriel Steinschulte on sacred liturgical music. He is the nephew of the late, great Msgr. Johannes...
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