[ArrogantBustard]

The music in the Oregon Catholic Press books is chosen by survey.

No kidding? I've long suspected some such shenanigans, as lots of good stuff seems to disappear down the memory hole only to be replaced by dreck. And that's another one of my annoyances. The OCP/NPM cabal seems to have an absolute loathing for hardbound hymnals. The rea$on$ $hould be obviou$. In addition to incrementally altering the way their subjects sing at Mass (and one of the favourite phrases from the 1970s was "He who sings prays twice"), there's GOLD in them thar pews!

[Desdemona]

Changing words is one of my pet peeves. Honestly. Because I memorize so fast, and then, WHAMO, I actually have to look at a book.

I'm glad somebody else out there noticed the copyrights. I have no problem with royalties on sheet music for composers, but it better be worth the royalty. And the OCP people have never seen hard-bound hymnals. I mean, if money's tight, why are we paying for this stuff?