Ha! My parish is still using G&P. I’ll give them props though, 'cause the music at least follows the antiphones for the Mass. I haven’t heard Gather Us In, or Anthem (I know this one’s in there, but I don’t think they discovered it yet. Shhh!), but that book does have some real doozies in it. There should be no boogie woogie on the organ during Mass. I think they’re trying to get all the old Mass settings sung during Mass before the new translation come out.
I know a priest who was in the seminary in the late '80s- early '90s. As a class prank(?), the seminarians hid all of the volumes of Glory and Praise in a place “where no one will ever be able to find them again.”
See, that’s your first problem. You don’t “perform” at Mass. You assist the singing, preferably by singing traditional Gregorian chant and polyphony.
If you are in doubt about what kinds of music were permitted at Mass in the 1960s and 70s (and today), this video is an easy-to-digest yet fact-packed guide.
great link Thanks.It’s amazing how much you can say with a couple of smilies!
Also, if I may point out, the music, especially Gregorian Chant, should be as if the professional choir were angels solemnly praying to God. I’ve heard that at Mass (mostly at at the Latin Mass) the congregation shouldn’t sing along with the choir, because they are professional (or at least should be) and the music shouldn’t be destroyed by a bad singer sitting in the pew behind you.
This is absolutely untrue for the Ordinary Form. The principle of “Full, conscious and active participation in the liturgy”, promulgated by the Second Vatican Council, demands that we add our voices together in praising God. This means that the choir, the cantor, or the soloist is primarily there to assist the people in singing the parts of the Mass that are to be sung.
G&P does have a few song St. Gregory the Great composed, but the majority of the book is still sewage sediment.
Hopefully that’s a metaphor.
Yes, we could be subtle about this too.
You`re a bly sadist!***
I’m sorry but these kind of comments really annoy me. “Perform” has many meanings and “To render (music), as by playing or singing” comes before “To accomplish (an action involving skill and ability), as before an audience” in my dictionary. We jump all over people for the use of a perfectly legitimate word.
