Mass Settings - modifications

[St_Annes]

Can someone give me an answer please:
What (if any) alterations to texts of the Mass parts are allowed? (e.g., may a phrase be repeated for aesthetic purposes or fitting ease with the music).
Thank you.

 

[robwar]

Can someone give me an answer please:
What (if any) alterations to texts of the Mass parts are allowed? (e.g., may a phrase be repeated for aesthetic purposes or fitting ease with the music).
Thank you.

You need to be more specific. Likewise, questions about liturgy are better asked from experts on the liturgy than on a Catholic forum such as this.

 

[JM3]

Liturgiam authenticam

1. A great part of the liturgical texts are composed with the intention of their being sung by the priest celebrant, the deacon, the cantor, the people, or the choir. For this reason, the texts should be translated in a manner that is suitable for being set to music. Still, in preparing the musical accompaniment, full account must be taken of the authority of the text itself. Whether it be a question of the texts of Sacred Scripture or of those taken from the Liturgy and already duly confirmed, paraphrases are not to be substituted with the intention of making them more easily set to music, nor may hymns considered generically equivalent be employed in their place.

GIRM

1. Bearing in mind the important place that singing has in a celebration as a necessary or integral part of the Liturgy,[151] all musical settings for the texts of the Ordinary of Mass, for the people’s responses and acclamations, and for the special rites that occur in the course of the liturgical year must be submitted to the Secretariat of Divine Worship of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops for review and approval prior to publication.

 

[Catholic_Wife]

Can someone give me an answer please:
What (if any) alterations to texts of the Mass parts are allowed? (e.g., may a phrase be repeated for aesthetic purposes or fitting ease with the music).
Thank you.

Do you mean things like repeating the mystery of faith (singing “save us Savior of the world …” twice, etc.) or “Amen” five times during the Great Amen?

 

[St_Annes]

Yes, or more so in the Mysterium Fide - “We proclaim your death, O Lord, and profess your resurrection, until you come, until you come again.”

 

[929dad]

“Modifications” like that are not new. If you think about the “sacred polyphony” of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, for example, you will find that large sections of texts are repeated. As long as there aren’t other words and all the words are there in the right order, it’s permissible.