Category: Jeffrey Tucker

The USCCB made a stunning announcement last week that said that the music for the new Missal can be used immediately if the local bishop approves. This has sent parishes across the country scrambling for Mass cards to put in the pews so that the people can start chanting. I had been looking and begging myself until someone pointed out just how easy such a thing would be to make.

Sure enough, this one small sheet (8.5.x11) includes Kyrie, Gloria, Credo text, Sanctus, Acclamations, and Agnus. It’s a start. You can download it here.

I’m not sure that I see the need for music on the Credo. People would probably learn it better without worrying about notes. They only need to listen several times to a strong cantor.

Here it is

Next year’s Colloquium is at the Cathedral of the Madeleine, June 25- July 1. Here are some images from this Fickr page:

There was a great deal of interest in Edward Schaefer’s class on semiology at the Sacred Music Colloquium – something that had long been requested by participants but we had not been able to fit into the schedule. It was very interesting class, a chance to tap into the work of hundreds of great chant masters over a hundred years in order to understand why we have the music we have. The class left me with a profound respect for that early generation of Solesmes monks who took on the task of correcting the chant in light of paleographic research – a task later picked up by Dom E. Cardine.

In the 1980s, the primary publishing spot in the English-speaking world for semiological research was Sacred Music magazine as published by the Church Music Association of America and under the editorship of Msgr. Richard Schuler. The topic was the most frequently visited theme throughout the 1980s, with contributions by Dom Cardine, Fr. Columba Kelly, Robert M. Fowells, and Dom Laurence Bevenot.

Together these 40 pages of material constitute a guide to this topic, including the repeated clarification that semiology is not a method for singing but a research project that picks up the original principles that guided Dom Pothier and Dom Mocquereau. Indeed, the collection opens with Cardine’s own tribute to Mocquereau.

I hope everyone can benefit by having these articles all in one file: The Semiology Collection from Sacred Music.

Such a fantastic song! I hope you hear it or sing it at Corpus Christi.

Or in procession outside Church

See what the Holy Father has planned for St. Peter and Paul.