Video • Sacred or Secular?

JUST SAW this video on Facebook shared by American composer, Frank La Rocca. I am not sure if he made the video, but it is pretty interesting. The video, Sacred or Secular? What do you hear?, was uploaded to Vimeo by “Phantom of the Choir Loft”. This video summarizes the fundamental Church teachings on Sacred Music and explains why Gregorian chant is the model of Sacred Music. What is interesting is that inappropriate “church songs” are being played as background music through the 8-minutes-long video. While the caption shows what true Sacred Music is, the audio, on the other hand, demonstrates what should not be considered Sacred Music.

“Phantom of the Choir Loft” also uploaded another interesting video called What Hollywood Understands and Many Catholic Parishes Don’t About Music. It compares the Hollywood filmmakers’ musical approaches to Jesus’s Incarnation and Passion to some contemporary Catholic composers’ approaches.