There is a paradox at the heart of the "Early Music Movement" - we like the music but we don't like the way the people who created it lived their lives. But you can't separate the two. You have to try and understand the world in which they lived if you want to understand the music.

Monica


----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Shepherd" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 3:23 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Nazi rules for jazz performers


I was brought up in the Church of England, and left it when I was about 13. But my interest in music was, I think, engendered by standing alongside my father in church listening to him sing the bass part while everybody else was singing the top line. He knew the parts by heart, but alas it is rare to get a hymn book with music in it these days. I was horrified when I discovered (quite recently) that the Catholics are almost ahead of the Anglicans when it comes to abandoning proper music and going "happy-clappy".

Though an atheist, I still love to go to a sung Evensong in one of our cathedrals. I look forward to my eldest son Francis starting his Choral Scholarship at Merton College, Oxford, where he will be singing services three times a week, Byrd, Gibbons, Tomkins, Parry, etc etc. In some places, the traditions are still alive....

Best wishes,

Martin

On 14/03/2012 13:36, Edward Martin wrote:
Interesting concept.  Yes, many churches have abandoned their old
beautiful music, in favor of this guitar strumming, poorly composed,
boring music.

This trend of abandoning art music, in favor of mediocrity with the
idea that it appeals to the masses, keeps me away.

ed





   At 07:37 AM 3/14/2012, [email protected] wrote:
Chris,

the concept is so well expressed..

Donatella

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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
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      From:
[email protected]<[email protected]>
      Subject: [LUTE] Re: Nazi rules
for jazz performers
      To: [email protected]
      Cc: lute@cs.
dartmouth.edu
      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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[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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References


1. http://www.giovaninsede/
    2. file://localhost/mc/compose?
[email protected]
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