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10 years ago @ http://chantcafe.com/ - Liturgical Music in th... · 0 replies · +1 points

This has been a big fad in early music recordings for a decade or so now; just last night I was listening to such a recording of a Mass by Arnold de Lantins. It can be kind of cool to listen to reconstructed versions of chant (even boring slow chant). But you know, I don't buy CDs for the Sursum Corda, but for the polyphony. Reconstructed Masses are kind of silly, because there's no there there, there's everything about the Mass except the actual unbloody Sacrifice. If we can't have a Mass without real music, which should we have a MAss without real Jesus?

11 years ago @ http://chantcafe.com/ - Who you callin\' \"Bi-... · 0 replies · +2 points

For musicians, liturgy is the hammer that makes every problem in the Church look like a nail. I didn't see the original post or YT, so can't really comment. But I'm always amused by my pagan friends referring to the "rigid hierarchical authoritarian" RC Church, since it seems to be an anarchy in practice. Dioceses don't keep adequate tabs on their priests. The only solution I can think of is for the laity to drop a dime to the Bishop (preferably with audio/video), but I could also see problems with that. In some parishes, the dimes would be falling like snowflakes in Hell.

11 years ago @ http://chantcafe.com/ - The History of Solfege... · 0 replies · +3 points

Remember: See BS.
Church: "You want this sight-singing system we developed? We're not using it for anything."

11 years ago @ http://chantcafe.com/ - Tastes Like Mozart, So... · 0 replies · +2 points

OK... tell us more about this recording...lest we have to listen to Mozart again.

11 years ago @ http://chantcafe.com/ - Ubi Caritas - Stephens · 1 reply · +1 points

It's the ranges and divisi that are the problem, more than the notes. We did it the year after the Stephens, and did a certain amount of creative editing to make it work for us.

11 years ago @ http://chantcafe.com/ - Ubi Caritas - Stephens · 1 reply · +1 points

We did this at Mary Queen of Peace, Cleveland. Stephens is an undeniably talented guy, but I often find his work underpolished. But this is lot easier than the Durufle, and probably more effective from non-professional choirs.

11 years ago @ http://chantcafe.com/ - Date and Location Anno... · 1 reply · +2 points

I believe you're missing a word before "University".

13 years ago @ Chant Cafe - Improved site design? · 0 replies · -1 points

It ain't broke; why fix it?

13 years ago @ Chant Cafe - There Is a Way Out · 0 replies · +6 points

"In order to have proper worship, why should it be forever necessary to freeze time in the 16th century and forever force that music down the throats of the current generation?" FIFY.
Of course, I LOVE Renaissance polyphony. But the notion that emerged in the 19th century that the only proper polyphonic repertoire for the Mass is High Renaissance imitative polyphony or modern imitations is still very much with us. It's damaging to the cause of Catholic church music because it ignores what came before and after, and by so doing implies that it was less than optimal. If that was the ideal, than the church has nearly always violated the ideal. Now, chant IS integral to the Mass (your real point here), and the more I sing it, the more convinced I am of this. But if chant is the pasta and polyphony the sauce, we have lots of options for what to make the sauce from.

13 years ago @ Chant Cafe - History, In Reverse · 0 replies · +3 points

I was around there last year -- not for the March, because "abortion isn't really my issue", but for the CUA New Voices festival. And seeing that many cranked young people did something to me...I guess it is my issue now.

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