Church Music Shouldn’t Be “Headache-Inducing”
Authentic sacred music should attract people. It should not drive them away.
“What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too…” Pope Benedict XVI (7 July 2007)
Authentic sacred music should attract people. It should not drive them away.
Church music should not be boring! Here I provide eleven (11) ways to keep it awesome.
If there’s a more beautiful setting of this text, I don’t know what it could be.
I believe many choir members will stop coming back if the music is always the same.
What I’ve labeled “musical diversity” could also be thought of as “balance.”
Including seven (7) examples of musical diversity.
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If you fail to carefully plan your rehearsal, you’ll be eaten alive. And rightfully so!
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Add variety to the singing, so choir members will “take delight” in what they are doing—and they should be “taking delight” in singing praises to God.
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Ten ways to make your musical selections during Mass a delight for all present.
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Liturgical progressives constantly praise the “stylistic diversity” of the Ordinary Form, but the truth is surprising.
“His answer was surprising to me, and I thought it both prudential and catholic.” —Chris Mueller
Are all musical styles acceptable for Mass? Movie directors realize such a notion is bogus.
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