Paul Hume writing in the Gregorian Review, from an address to the National Catholic Music Educators Association, May 7, 1957:
We do need musicians, real musicians, and we need them desperately, in every segment of our life as Catholics. We are sorely deficient in the proportion of good Catholic musicians in the country, we are sadly lacking in capable trained musicians, and we are apparently in some parts of the country, entirely opposed to admitting that the profession of musician is one that the Church should in any concrete way support, as far as money goes.
….Giving meaning to the phrase "eternal verities."
Wow, could he imagine the current state of three-chord wonders?
… or one-note chanters.
By the way, there are only five chords on the guitar in standard tuning. Everything else is a variation.
You could argue that in all chord-based music, there's only 3 chords and everything else is a variation of one of their functions.
. . . or if you are a Schenkarian theorist, you could argue that there only two structural chords (I and V) and that everything else is an embellishment of those two chords!
(Reminds me of my grad school days.)
I is just V in a key I haven't decided to move to yet.
Has anyone done reductive analysis of chant?