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
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Among the contributors:
Also past contributors:
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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Gregorian Review 1.1 (1954)
That tiresome (I'm being facetious) issue of polyphonic settings of the Ordinary comes up in more than one issue. The writers opine that polyphonic settings are within the guidelines of Pius X's Motu Proprio on Sacred Music but are undesirable nevertheless.
These are remarkable issues, with articles by the very best Solesmes scholars!
Could we get the other three years of this journal?
Volumes 4 and 5 (1957 & 1958) are in the works. However we are missing Volume 2 (1955).