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“Make it an unbreakable rule to ingrain the rudiments of music theory into the very bones of the beginning student, preferably before the age of nine or ten.” —Dr. Lucas Tappan
People often complain: “Catholic priests won’t pay a living wage for choir directors, yet gladly pay millions to purchase a pipe organ.”
Arthur Cardinal Roche has not had an easy time of it lately.
Authentic sacred music should attract people. It should not drive them away.
“The Sacred Music Symposium was a vehicle of grace that changed my life.” —2019 Participant
We paid to have this extremely rare book scanned professionally.
Don’t listen to excuses!
“Sometimes there was the possibility to be faced that a particular line of research could never be followed to a successful conclusion because the evidence was now no longer available.”
We should define our terms. What makes a syllable accented, and what makes an accent a tonic accent?
The truth is stranger than fiction.
Then he got really angry (because it dawned on him what he’d just admitted).
The songs and hymns were pleasantly familiar … to the point where after twelve years I could play by heart every song in the ‘Breaking Bread’ hymnal.
Find out why this motet is simple enough for beginning choirs yet demanding enough to challenge seasoned singers.
There must have been a need for such a booklet, otherwise he would not have gone to the trouble of creating it!
If your priest approaches you after Mass and says the music sounded horrible, it’s incorrect to reply: “Well, that’s how it’s supposed to be.”
