[AnAmericanMother]

We're working on the Anglican music! (As our choirmaster says, all the old boys like Byrd and Tallis WERE Catholic at the time! The Royals were afraid to mess with them for fear of losing the music.)

This was our communion anthem last Sunday: Tallis: Verily, Verily I Say Unto You

The offertory anthem was this: Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine, but hey, a little frog music never hurt anybody.

Byrd's "Bell Anthem" next Sunday . . . we sing a LOT of English music. You'd think that the ex-Episcopalians infesting the choir would have something to do with it, but the choirmaster (a cradle Catholic) LOVES English music . . . we just shout "AMEN!"

[Claud]

We're working on the Anglican music!

LOL..wonderful! I didn't know Byrd and Tallis were Catholics! Fancy that.

Over here in the traditional Roman Rite, we're busy stitching that heritage back together. We sing from the St. Basil's, the Traditional Roman Hymnal, and the St. Gregory's; only the middle one there is modern, but it was put out by the SSPX so the St. Louis Jesuits are (ahem) rather underrepresented.

I am now just introducing myself to the glorious English liturgical music heritage, but I'm a bit at a loss where to start. Any good beginner recordings you might recommend?