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“The more I learn about Marier, the more I am inspired to be a better human being.” —Richard J. Clark

Confirmed: Full archives of “Triumph” (a 1960s Roman Catholic magazine) are available online!

Here’s a technique you must try with your choir.

On some finer details of the project that, as far as I’m aware, have not been definitively settled…

Is celebration “versus populum” a good idea? Father Mike’s answer might raise some eyebrows…

Over the years, we’ve received beautiful messages of encouragement.

In 1994, the most powerful mainstream Catholic music organization published a song about the “enlightenment of Buddha.”

Did you know that St. Augustine described the sound of one hand clapping?

Twenty years ago, I had the opportunity to conduct a week-long interview with Dom Cardine’s former boss.

Platinum singer-songwriter Corrinne May, our contributor, recently appeared on EWTN.

Unless I’m mistaken, this charming piece can be played on organ manuals alone.

Here’s where to find improvisation recordings you can actually emulate.
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“Nothing so arouses the soul, gives it wing, sets it free from the earth, releases it from the prison of the body, teaches it to love wisdom, and to condemn all the things of this life, as concordant melody and sacred song composed in rhythm.” —St. John Chrysostom

Should music at the Ordinary Form be identical to music at the Extraordinary Form?

A proposal: if we are going to study something as important and mysterious as Gregorian chant, we ought to be able to perform it convincingly in several different ways.
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