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Sacred Music: “Curse the darkness…or light a candle?”
Archives for March 2017
Revisiting Musicam Sacram
Fifty Years Later – Strengths, Weaknesses, and Progressive Solemnity
Let Everything That Hath Breath Praise the Lord!
Point us once again to God Who is Beauty Itself!
Vatican II • What You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask
Fr. Christopher Smith has created a 7-part series on Vatican II.
PDF Download • “Antiphonale Romanum” (1949)
Yesterday, I used the text on page 366 to create an SATB Hymn for Lent.
Is There Music in Heaven?
The Sights and Sounds of St. John’s Apocalypse
Did You Forget This Fabulous Lenten Hymn?
The psalm verses are optional—making this piece as long or short as you desire.
Pope Francis on musical quality: “mediocrity, superficiality, and banality”
“Sometimes a certain mediocrity, superficiality and banality have prevailed, to the detriment of the beauty and intensity of liturgical celebrations.”
O Crux Ave, partial recording
A stepping stone towards singing this motet with a small choir – a recording for the middle voice of Fr Friel’s 3 part motet.
Choirmasters, Your Job Is Hard Beyond A Doubt
What does sacred music have to do with the O. J. Simpson murder trial?