Repeating Repertoire? • William Fritz
As church musicians, we have incredible responsibility and influence.
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As church musicians, we have incredible responsibility and influence.
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To repeat or not to repeat: that is the question!
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Psalm 51 occurs a dozen times in the lectionary during the year, for such diverse days such as St. Thomas Aquinas, weekdays during ordinary Time, many days in Lent, and the Easter Vigil.

Post-Liberal Theology compares a religion to a language. How might that comparison, which could include the concept of a “vocabulary” of liturgical music, inform how we think about repeating repertoire?
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Sometimes a music director can encounter criticism about the music program. The good side of this is that it shows that someone cares.

I’m sure I’m not the only one to feel this way: certain celebrations don’t feel right without “that piece.”
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“Repetition” in the Age of Streaming Masses…

My own growth as a musician for the Liturgy has culminated in my pastor allowing me to sing the Propers in English: the realization of a decade-long dream.

“The tunes and ditties of the radio will be meaningless in the magnitude of one’s final moments; only the psalms can bear the weight of the moment.” —Barry Rose
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“I have made the mistake in the past of scheduling a whole set of new pieces for three of four weeks in a row.”
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There’s an old saying: “Show me your friends, and I will tell you who you are.”
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