[Desdemona]

Hey, what's wrong with singing? Okay, I agree with you on one hand, but being a classically trained soprano, I confess to liking a little music and wish it was of a better quality than we seem to get these days. People like me are "too good" to sing at Mass and liturgical types make no bones about stating that.

As for the article, what the bishop did in Cleveland is use all the escape clauses and loopholes. The GIRM, for the most part, says exactly the opposite.

[SengirV]

There is nothing wrong with singing. I would love for you to sing ONE spiritual song at each of my masses.

I really don't want to mix the two(mass/funeral) by my wife's grandmother pasted away a couple months back. We had a funeral with a mass. There was a woman there who sang ONE song. She was an amazing singer and it was a beautiful song. She brought EVERYONE to tears. The mass/funeral continued after she was done, and everyone commented on the amazing singing after all was said and done. We were there for a funeral and the ONE song really complimented the funeral. Had she then gotten up and sung 4 more songs mixed throughout the funeral, then that would detracted from the service.

I don't see that example and a mass any differently. All my regular masses now have like 4-5 songs and it takes away from why we are all there.