1 posted on
12/25/2009 3:17:12 PM PST by
NYer
To: netmilsmom; thefrankbaum; markomalley; Tax-chick; GregB; saradippity; Berlin_Freeper; Litany; ...
2 posted on
12/25/2009 3:17:43 PM PST by
NYer
("One Who Prays Is Not Afraid; One Who Prays Is Never Alone" - Benedict XVI)
To: NYer
Q What is the difference between a liturgist and a terrorist?
A You can negotiate with a terrorist
3 posted on
12/25/2009 3:50:25 PM PST by
badpacifist
(Shout Allahu Akbar near me and I will bust a cap in your head just in case)
To: NYer
Finely there is is hope for Catholic liturgical music which has too long been mired in hootenannies and kumbayas.
4 posted on
12/25/2009 4:38:42 PM PST by
The Great RJ
("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
To: NYer
Caution: St. Meinrad may be improving, but there are still some problems there given the decades of neglect and atrophy that it endured 1970-1995.
5 posted on
12/25/2009 5:59:17 PM PST by
Notwithstanding
(Wer glaubt ist nie allein. Who believes is never alone.)
To: NYer
so, the future of music publishing is giving it away?
Gee, how can that pay the bills?
6 posted on
12/25/2009 7:01:05 PM PST by
the invisib1e hand
(markets don't fail. intervention does.)
To: NYer
The music that St Meinrad is offering is properly liturgical music - Gregorian chant - adapted for the English texts. I know that some musicians would argue that Gregorian chant is not suited for the English language and that other styles of sacred music might be better - or some other way of adapting Gregorian chant, or something. This isn't that difficult at all. The big thing is learning the different modes and figuring out on which syllables to change pitch. That a bunch of monks are going to clean up on publishing Gregorian Chant in English says more about the pathetic state of musicianship in the Church in the US than anything else.
8 posted on
12/26/2009 7:48:32 AM PST by
Desdemona
(These are the times that try men's souls. - Remember Christmas 1776)
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