“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)
The “Pre-NOH” editions have quite an idiosyncratic way of lengthening the neumes. • Fulsome illustrations are included examining and explaining the mora vocis of the Vatican edition; also mentioned is Dom André Mocquereau, Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val, and Pothier’s Liber Gradualis (1883)+
Including a written tutorial on how to perform Chabanel Psalms correctly.
It all boils down to recollection. This 39-page book will help. (And so will one weird trick with your computer, as the clickbaiters would say.)
I think we can learn something from this pagan official.
A picture is worth 1,000 words…
Three days of practical chant instruction and immersion in the treasury of Catholic sacred music
When faced with restrictions on the size of the choir, history suggests that we can adapt music for smaller groups, including groups with only one singer.
…praying the holy rosary with his office staff.
To give you an idea how this sounds, I recorded the piece on my toy organ.
Father Rutler makes five crucial points.
The word “grace” means a gift given to us by God. Sanctifying grace is first given to us when we are baptized.
(Keven Smith) • I’ve come to realize that the vast majority of “tone-deaf” people aren’t really tone-deaf at all. They just haven’t been trained to coordinate their voices with their audiation+
This piece comes from “Motecta Trium Vocum” by Kevin Allen (for three equal voices).
A 1964 article reflects on what the liturgy envisioned by “Inter oecumenici” may have looked like.
Lies containing a little truth are the most difficult to quash • Here is the definitive, final exposé on why the “Spoken Propers” don’t match the “Sung Propers.” • In October of 1972, the Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy falsely equated the “Spoken Propers” with the “Sung Propers” and proclaimed: “These antiphons are too abrupt for communal recitation” • Several official English translations of the Roman Gradual have received the imprimatur multiple times+
