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[LoyalViews]

I also thought Michel Guimont’s “Mass for a Servant Church” was nice and probably one of the better settings advertised in that link.

So did I

I agree. One can compose a simple melody that is beautiful and stirring.

Absolutely, most definitely true. And, the melodies I linked too were not simple, they required a “band”, and they remove the sacred atmosphere from the Mass.

People did expect better with the new Mass settings coming for the new translation, especially since our Holy Father has been calling repeatedly for music to return to holiness of form, that is back to Gregorian chant! And he’s not being listened to, it’s quite clear.

What’s also sad is that when I attended a diocesan workshop on implementing music for the new translation, they specifically mentioned that it was perfectly okay to do something which GIRM forbids. I knew that people would try to find ways to work around changes they don’t like, but for them to blatantly say it’s permissible to disobey the Church was utterly astounding to me.

At least a few of us can do our part in giving Marty Haugen’s music the place it deserves – in the trash bin. It’s not Catholic and it’s certainly not what our Holy Father has been asking for.

How is a new translation going to prevent more copyrighted music to be composed and played? If anything, I’d expect more, not less. They’d have to practically ban the English Mass altogether to reinstate more of Jubilate Deo into the Mass as was the wish of Paul VI.

That is true, and I knew it would happen, unfourtunately!

I’ll probably get beat up for this on CAF but frankly, I think we should hire some Anglican composers to develop some good, reverent mass settings. They have a wonderful music tradition in their liturgy and unlike much of the traditional Catholic music, it was designed for the English language.

I agree completely…look at the beautiful composers such as John Rutter, and Philip Stopford…oh what beautiful sounds!

Why is it OK to use J.S. Bach’s music in Mass but it isn’t OK to use Marty Haugen’s music in Mass?

It’s not because of ones faith, it’s the tune and that Marty Haugen’s hymns often contain theologically unsound lyrics.

 

[Phemie]

I also thought Michel Guimont’s “Mass for a Servant Church” was nice and probably one of the better settings advertised in that link.

It certainly sounds infinitely more singable that the other two.