Donatella,
In America the change in music came much earlier, in many places
preceding the Second Vatican Council. The Catholic Church in America
took great pride in dissociating itself from "old world ways" by
rejecting chant and polyphony. In its place, they replaced these
traditions with very poor pseudo-folk music. I suppose this was done in
order to provide "hip" music to attract young people, under the
assumption that no one under 30 can stand still long enough to
appreciate beauty. Unfortunately, the resultant music was some hideous
hybrid that succeeded in being neither appropriately sacred nor in any
way interesting to young people. At any rate, young people stayed away
in droves, largely because of this smaltzy stuff. Still, these very
same wannabe hippy songs - now approaching 50 years old - and the
stated need to use them to attract young people are repeated ad
nauseum.
One of the great unwritten-about artistic travesties of the 20th
century is the fact that this entire repertoire, which replaced a
still-living century's old tradition, was not called for by any Church
decree, but was largely engineered by the publishing company Oregan
Catholic Press. If you go to practically any church in the country you
will find the same poor quality songs from the 1960's and 1970's in the
hymnals. This is not due to regulation, but rather a publishing deal.
Chris
Dr. Christopher Wilke D.M.A.
Music Faculty
Nazareth College, Rochester, NY
State University of New York at Geneseo
Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer
www.christopherwilke.com
--- On Wed, 3/14/12, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Nazi rules for jazz performers
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 3:49 AM
I googled, in Italian, and this came out [1]http://www.giovaninsede.
it/animazione-liturgica.php , there are no notes as music is not
thaught in the same way as abroad, so average people can sometimes read
chords ( sigh) and that is. You can get an idea. I used to go to Mass
as a child, and songs which were sung were possibly ancient and
complex, often in Latin, then when the previous Pope came, he
destroyed that part, I guess to make audience ( sad to say, but that
is), so that songs became the poorest, musically speaking, you can
imagine, accompanied by guitar, organ was heard now and then. It was
part of a "renovation" of which I can give an example: in the village
where I go on holiday , there is a Chapel with a Renaissance painting.
It needed restoring, but it was visible. Well , it was covered with a
representation of a black Madonna ( I can't think of the proper name
right now) which is not even of any artistic value.
To me listening to
the Mass became a real suffering, this is not the main reason why I
quit, but I did.
Lute and theorbo are allowed, I have been asked
several times to play a piece during the mass ( but I have not done it
up to now)
Donatella
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Data: 14/03/2012 1.06
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Ogg: [LUTE] Re: Nazi rules for jazz performers
On Mar
13, 2012, at 4:01 PM, Tony wrote:
> The Church's doctrine on
liturgical music can be summarized in seven
> points ....
Doubtless
there are listers who know more about this than I do, but this list
seems like a compilation of things that have been said on the subject
over the centuries, rather than functioning doctrine. A lot of it is
pre-Vatican II. The one about guitars, for example, is obviously forty
or fifty years years out of date. Try googling: catholic mass guitar
(no quotes). Apparently the current pope Benedict doesn't like
guitars.
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