Catholic liturgical music is serious, solemn, transcendent, but Catholic musicians are never more fun and inspiring than when they are talking about what they love most. This is what happens at sacred music events around the world: the social and intellectual are critically important elements. The musicians (and music enthusiasts) at the Chant Café, a project of the
Church Music Association of America, bring that sense of life and love to the digital world. As St. Augustine said, "Cantare amantis est."
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Jeffrey Tucker, writer, editor, entrepreneur, musician |
archiveNick Gale (1975-2015), organist, choral director, for 13 years Master of the Music at the Cathedral of St. George in Southwark |
archiveBen, schola director and organ student |
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Awesome, Jeffrey. When it comes to the smallest detail regarding when to do the chant vs. how this subject is one of those things over which people will always get into arguments. THIS post gives the final word. Thank you!!!
Section IV is not too clearly worded. Surely the penultimate sentence should have "not repeated" in place of "which repeated". And it should make it clear that Alleluia is not repeated after the verse when the Sequence follows.