Catholic Music Publication - Cantica Nova Publications

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I found this Catholic music publishing house while surfing the net for something totally different. Their motto is “Traditional Music… for the Contemporary Church”. So they carry music from chant to modern-day composers.
Who We Are and What We Offer
CanticaNOVA Publications (CNP) provides quality liturgical music for today’s Catholic Church. CNP believes that the texts and rites of Catholic liturgy give ample sources for creative musical expression. Using what the Church has already given us, CNP publishes quality music grounded in, and often directly flowing from, the traditions of the Church. This “NEW traditional music” provides the Catholic musician with the ability to be creative in liturgical music planning without having to turn to poor quality, “alternative” religious music.
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canticanova.com/

They also have a place where today’s composers can submit their music for publication. They have a list of their living composers. Here is just a section of their guidelines:
CanticaNOVA Publications
Music and Text
-should be traditional, i.e. well-written music in styles ranging from Gregorian chant to that of composers like John Rutter. Specifically excluded are the singer/songwriter pieces so common in American Catholic churches in the last 30 years as well as the sentimental devotional pieces that prospered in these churches in the 1940s and 50s,
-should have some point of reference to the musical and liturgical heritage of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church
Text
-should be God-centered, avoiding styles in which the congregation or choir are singing to themselves and/or about themselves.
  • should be of high quality, avoiding trite and mundane phrasing and should not go to extreme or awkward lengths to avoid traditional English pronoun usage.
    Music
  • must follow all the principles of standard music theory, unless compositional style demands otherwise.
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The rest of the guidelines are here:
canticanova.com/cnp_subm.htm

Anyway, I just thought I put this out there for anyone who is interested in composing for the Church and for a good source to get publications of more traditional compositions for their choirs and other musicians. Enjoy!
 
Cantica Nova is a great little publishing house for quality sacred music, and we should all support them. They are a source for excellent new compositions, and one can get all the Solesmes chant publications from them as well. If I were a composer (which I’m not) they’d be my first choice for getting something published.

And the articles on the site are great reading!
 
VociMike said:
Cantica Nova is a great little publishing house for quality sacred music, and we should all support them. They are a source for excellent new compositions as well as old, and one can get all the Solesmes chant publications from them as well. If I were a composer (which I’m not) they’d be my first choice for getting something published.

And the articles on the site are great reading!
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Yes. I just read one of their articles on J.C. Bach. I’ve been studying classical music since I was four - living, breathing, eating it. Ha! But I never knew he had converted to Catholicism. You learn something new everyday!!! 🙂
 
JimR-OCDS said:
Are they approved by the USCCB?

Jim
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I just sent a request and asked them. I guess your question is more in regards to the newer compositions? All of the other music like Gregorian chant, Palestrina, Victoria, Tallis, etc. is Catholic and have long been used in the Church.
 
Sarabande said:
I just sent a request and asked them. I guess your question is more in regards to the newer compositions? All of the other music like Gregorian chant, Palestrina, Victoria, Tallis, etc. is Catholic and have long been used in the Church.
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Not all what seems like Gregorian chant would necessarily be approved.

Check with your local diocese for approval of hymnal text.

Also, beware of copy right issues.

Jim
 
JimR-OCDS said:
Thats your judgment, which of course as usual, is wrong. 😃
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Then why don’t you show us evidence of USCCB approval for all the big publishers and all the smaller less-traditional publishers. After all, you’re just as interested in their approval, aren’t you?
 
VociMike said:
Then why don’t you show us evidence of USCCB approval for all the big publishers and all the smaller less-traditional publishers. After all, you’re just as interested in their approval, aren’t you?
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I asked the question, why don’t you either provide the answer or remain silent, being you don’t know, instead of attacking me?

BTW, OCP has Approval from the USCCB. 🙂

Jim
 
JimR-OCDS said:
I asked the question, why don’t you either provide the answer or remain silent, being you don’t know, instead of attacking me?

BTW, OCP has Approval from the USCCB. 🙂

Jim
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Show me this approval. I’m curious to see what such a thing looks like.
 
VociMike said:
Show me this approval. I’m curious to see what such a thing looks like.
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Its on the inside cover of their hymnal and their missalette. OCP is a non-profit Catholic Publishing organization. They publish the missalettes and the hymnal my dioceses uses.

Jim
 
JimR-OCDS said:
Its on the inside cover of their hymnal and their missalette. OCP is a non-profit Catholic Publishing organization. They publish the missalettes and the hymnal my dioceses uses.

Jim
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So what does it say?
 
VociMike said:
So what does it say?
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I don’t have an OCP copy in front of me, but I do have another
one, by World Library Publications.( I used this hymnal when I was one of the leaders of the music ministry in my parish.)
Their inside cover says, “Published by Authority of the Committee on Liturgy, of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.”

The OCP version we have at my parish, says a similar thing, the last time I checked which was about a month ago.

Jim
 
JimR-OCDS said:
I don’t have an OCP copy in front of me, but I do have another
one, by World Library Publications.( I used this hymnal when I was one of the leaders of the music ministry in my parish.)
Their inside cover says, “Published by Authority of the Committee on Liturgy, of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.”

The OCP version we have at my parish, says a similar thing, the last time I checked which was about a month ago.

Jim
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I’m betting this authority has to do with publishing missals for liturgical use, not sacred music. Can you show me where the USCCB “approves” publishers of sacred music as opposed to missals?

This quote from the USCCB site reinforces my bet (my underlines):

The Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy is a standing committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The Committee has the responsibility in the bishops’ conference for all matters relating to the liturgy. The Secretariat for the Liturgy carries out the work of the Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy. It oversees the preparation and approval of liturgical books and texts and grants the concordat cum originali for publications of liturgical texts in the U.S.A.; it reviews all publications in the U.S. which contain excerpts from approved liturgical books.
 
They approve the publication, not necessarily the publisher.
I’m betting this authority has to do with publishing missals for liturgical use, not sacred music.
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I’m looking at a hymnal, not a missal.

Looks like your trying to tap dance around your attack against me, for merely asking a question. Typical. 😃

Jim
 
JimR-OCDS said:
They approve the publication, not necessarily the publisher.

I’m looking at a hymnal, not a missal.

Looks like your trying to tap dance around your attack against me, fore merely asking a question. Typical. 😃

Jim
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OK, then show me on the USCCB site where approval is either required or recommended for music publishers. When you can do this I will retract my comment.
 
I didn’t mean for this to become a debate session - just to pass along info.

I do understand the issue on certain chants, but most publications of other works such as those by Palestrina, Arcadelt, Victoria have the same text and music, but are just printed by different publishers. Having seen different publications of the same work, the major differences are perhaps where the text is set, whether or not there were dynamics added, editor contributions, etc. For instance, there are many organ works that are fine for the mass, but some of the approved distributers don’t carry the music, so you have to go to Barenreiter, Urtext, and other respected music publishing houses to get the sheet music. They aren’t “approved”, per say.

In terms of copyright, that could easily be checked. For older music, the only parts that would be copyrighted for most of the music is the work of the editors. If they were new transcriptions of the old work, with no edits from modern editors, then they should be fine. (My father-in-law was an editor and publisher.) If you look further on the site, they also don’t carry all of the music suggested and actually have the names of other publishers, such as OCP, GIA and other publishers that they can go to get the music.
 
VociMike said:
OK, then show me on the USCCB site where approval is either required or recommended for music publishers. When you can do this I will retract my comment.
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I never stated USCCB approval was required. However, when a publication has the approval, you don’t have to worry about it, even when fundamentalist in here condemn it.

Again, all I asked, did the OP’s hymnal have the approval?

Why you turned this into some sort of a war is beyond me. 😃

Jim
 
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