tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post1180173041095010941..comments2024-03-28T09:01:45.633-04:00Comments on southern orders: WOULD HAVE KEEPING THE DESIGNATIONS OF LOW, HIGH AND SOLEMN HIGH MASS AND WHAT IS REQURIED FOR ALL THREE SAVED US THE CRISIS IN LITURGICAL MUSIC TODAY AND WOULD THE RECOVERY OF THESE DESIGNATIONS STABILIZE THE LITURGY MAKING IT MORE IN CONTINUITY WITH ITS PREDECESSOR NOW CALLED THE EF?Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-70648284350677833782012-10-24T10:21:54.345-04:002012-10-24T10:21:54.345-04:00Indeed it is, Henry, although like most of the doc...Indeed it is, Henry, although like most of the documents issued in the 1960s it is ambiguous and even contradictory in places. It also marks the end of the 20th century attempts to regulate sacred music from the centre since it gives considerable leeway to local bishops' conferences.<br /><br />About this time it was actually suggested that secular popular music forms could be introduced into the liturgy, which was immediately parodied by Tom Lehrer in the 'Vatican Rag'.John Nolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09027156691859606002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-5506884616759081922012-10-24T08:44:40.897-04:002012-10-24T08:44:40.897-04:00As I understand it, Musicam Sacram is still the op...As I understand it, Musicam Sacram is still the operative instruction for the normative rite, but is almost universally ignored.Henry Edwardsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-41921182080721399932012-10-24T06:10:20.290-04:002012-10-24T06:10:20.290-04:00Musicam Sacram (1967), which is if you like the mu...Musicam Sacram (1967), which is if you like the musical blueprint for the Novus Ordo does indeed retain the distinction between Missa Solemnis, Missa Cantata and Missa Lecta, although it does allow for 'graduated solemnity' and (alas!) the Low Mass 4-hymn sandwich. Interestingly, if you follow MS you can't have a spoken introductory rite followed by a sung Gloria, since the dialogue parts must be sung before anything else is.<br /><br />By the time the NO came out in 1970 most parishes had abandoned the Missa Cantata in the rush to vernacularize everything five years previously. In many places there was a stand-off between choir directors who wanted to preserve the Church's musical heritage and clergy who wanted nothing to do with it. Usually the musicians lost.<br /><br />A further problem with the new Missal and Lectionary was that many of the Propers had no musical (ie Gregorian) settings. The Gradual had been replaced by a 'Responsorial Psalm' (for which there is no real precedent) and the Alleluia and Tract which are essentially meditative had become 'Gospel acclamations' for the people to join in. It was fairly obvious at the time that the reformers didn't want Gregorian Chant and Paul VI even opined that its loss, though regrettable, was a price worth paying (Advent address 1969). A few years later he partially back-tracked and issued Iubilate Deo.<br /><br />It was therefore necessary to re-arrange the chants of the Graduale Romanum to fit the NO, which eventually resulted in the revised GR of 1974. It has since been conceded that these are the Proper chants for the Sung Mass, the missal antiphons being for a spoken Mass only. It is not a particularly satisfactory state of affairs, and those who attend a sung OF Mass on Sundays or Holy Days would be advised to invest in the Solesmes Gregorian Missal, first published in 1990 and now re-published with the new translation.John Nolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09027156691859606002noreply@blogger.com