[ArrogantBustard]

I spent over a decade studying classical piano, as a child ...

Most of the music is pretty bad, but I think a good chunck of that can be chalked up to ignorance.

Are you saying that the composers or the congregations are musically ignorant. Or both?

[Desdemona]

I spent over a decade studying classical piano, as a child ...

My hands are so small, I can only reach a seventh. Even flute - I couldn't move on to openhole because my hands are too small. Oboe was easier.

Are you saying that the composers or the congregations are musically ignorant. Or both?

Congregations, yes. A good number of music directors and "liturgists". Several of the "composers" don't demonstrate in their writing much of a knowledge of good writing. Some do, but right now they are few and far between and their material usually gets taken out of the annual music issues.

[ninenot]

Bet you can't name more than three colleges which offer a legitimate course in Sacred Music.

There's Catholic U., (at least ONE prof is very solid), Westminster in N.j. (not really a college, but close..)

and where next?

[ninenot]

Bet you can't name more than three colleges which offer a legitimate degree in Sacred Music in the USA.

There's Catholic U., (at least ONE prof is very solid).

and where next?