“Is it not true that prohibiting or suspecting the extraordinary form can only be inspired by the demon who desires our suffocation and spiritual death?” —The Vatican’s chief liturgist from 2014-2021; interview with Edw. Pentin (23-Sep-2019)
Consilium document (“Instantibus Pluribus”) to presidents of the national liturgical commissions, on norms for translation of the Graduale Simplex, dated 23 January 1968: “The types of chant in the Graduale Simplex may be adapted to the style of music and song typical of individual peoples. But any sort of secular or profane melody is excluded.”
The “invitatory” occurs at the beginning of Matins and therefore introduces the daily divine Office.
“Often, the person who did us harm won’t even know that we’re still stewing over what they did to us; and if they knew, they might even be glad.”
But we have not spoken very much about Baroque music…
“Kids don’t remember this…”
How to avoid that sickening feeling when you realize nobody—and I mean nobody—in the congregation knows the hymn you picked!
“If worry did any good, I would advise you to do it—but it is wasted time and energy.”
Terry was forced to resign from the Cathedral in 1924, partially due to his “inconsistent approach to congregational singing at the Cathedral.”
When Polish virtuoso Carl Tausig died in 1871 at the age of thirty, Franz Liszt said to Anton Rubinstein: “Now there are only two of us left in the world.” Liszt had sent Tausig to Richard Wagner, who wrote as follows: You have given me great pleasure with little Tausig. […] He is a terrible […]
When I look more closely, I notice some very tiny (“itsy bitsy”) hand missals held by the soldiers…
The internet is a very strange thing. I have spent hundreds of hours on certain articles—usually about hymn voice leading—and they get virtually no attention. But last night at 3:30AM I posted an image from WW2 from 9 April 1944 (showing a priest saying Mass with soldiers) and it was viewed 10,000 times on the […]
German troops included in American Easter Sunday Mass via loud-speaker.
An exciting new project gives me great hope for the “musical future” of the Catholic Church!
“Examining the life of Jesus, we discover that He acted differently in different circumstances.”
As the Isaac Jogues Missal would do 650 years later, this Missal provides pictures of the priest during the Canon!
