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**Musicam Sacram(MS) vs Music in Catholic Worship(MCW) **
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Please read this excellent article which gives some background behind the state of Sacred Music in this country and how what is currently prevalent in the US does not reflect the wishes of the Church.
Here is an excerpt:
"Perhaps the most important contribution of MS is that it specifically retains the distinction between “solemn, sung and read Mass”, and, additionally, it notes that “especially on Sundays and feast days, a form of the sung Mass (Missa in cantu) is to be preferred as much as possible.” MCW, on the other hand, considers the distinction between High Mass and Low Mass to be “outdated”. This difference shapes the entirety of both documents.
Second, MS develops three levels of hierarchy for singing various parts of the Mass. Level one focuses on the dialogues and responses to the prayers of the priest, the chants in the Eucharistic Prayer, and the Our Father; level two focuses primarily on the Ordinary of the Mass (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Agnus Dei); and level three focuses primarily on the Proper of the Mass (Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory, Communion). This hierarchy is based partly on the desire to maintain an organic link between innovations and tradition, in which the heritage of the sung Mass is respected and upheld, partly on pastoral reasoning, placing some of the easiest parts to sing in the first level, and partly on profound theological reasoning, placing elements of the Mass that promote the deepest level of participation in the first level.
Thanks The New Liturgical Movement and Cantate Deo
photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/1473/4426/320/283871804_555ea550e5_m.jpg
Please read this excellent article which gives some background behind the state of Sacred Music in this country and how what is currently prevalent in the US does not reflect the wishes of the Church.
Here is an excerpt:
"Perhaps the most important contribution of MS is that it specifically retains the distinction between “solemn, sung and read Mass”, and, additionally, it notes that “especially on Sundays and feast days, a form of the sung Mass (Missa in cantu) is to be preferred as much as possible.” MCW, on the other hand, considers the distinction between High Mass and Low Mass to be “outdated”. This difference shapes the entirety of both documents.
Second, MS develops three levels of hierarchy for singing various parts of the Mass. Level one focuses on the dialogues and responses to the prayers of the priest, the chants in the Eucharistic Prayer, and the Our Father; level two focuses primarily on the Ordinary of the Mass (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Agnus Dei); and level three focuses primarily on the Proper of the Mass (Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory, Communion). This hierarchy is based partly on the desire to maintain an organic link between innovations and tradition, in which the heritage of the sung Mass is respected and upheld, partly on pastoral reasoning, placing some of the easiest parts to sing in the first level, and partly on profound theological reasoning, placing elements of the Mass that promote the deepest level of participation in the first level.
Thanks The New Liturgical Movement and Cantate Deo