Obviously you were not the demographic they were looking for, Ed. I think what happened was a move away from a contemplative approach to religiousity to a social/interactive approach. Maybe we could trace the origins of "Facebook" to the abandoning of the Latin Mass.

Gary

----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Martin" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 6:36 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Nazi rules for jazz performers


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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Da: [email protected]
Data: 14/03/2012 13.29
A:
<[email protected]>, "[email protected]"<[email protected]>
Cc:
<[email protected]>
Ogg: [LUTE] Re: Nazi rules for jazz performers


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: 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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   Da:
   [2][email protected]
   Data:
14/03/2012 1.06
   A: "Lute Net"<lute@cs.
   dartmouth.edu>
   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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References


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