What kind of music do you prefer at Mass?

[MarthaMartha]

Mike C:

All of you have to rent the video “A Mighty Wind”. Is a mocumentary (for those of you in Yorba LInda, Ca, thats a parady, uh, for those of you down South, thats a joke.)

They sing one song “A Kiss at the end of a Rainbow”. Tell me or not if it doesn’t remind you of some Communion hymn.

That movie is a takeoff (I’m from New England) of the very people who inspired me to take up the guitar as a 12-year-old in the early '60s. You’re right, that song does have that sound I recall too well from playing in folk masses during the early '70s. And yes, everybody do rent that movie – it is hilarious. “There’s chicken on the table, but you gotta say grace ’ – WHEW!”

 

[snow_white]

I was disappointed that there wasn’t a choice for polyphany, the most beautiful music of all time! My college choir sings it at mass every Sunday, and it is very beautiful and uplifting. I also really like Gregorian Chant, which was my poll choice. I have been to many European Benedictine monastaries where they Gregorian chant at every mass and prayer time (like at Santo Domingo De Silos Monastary in Spain).

 

[stanley123]

I guess that the Gregorian chant is required because I read somewhere that the Pope has excommunicated every Catholic who sings something other than the Gregorian chant:

“Therefore, we command under sentence of excommunication that, in the singing and reading of your churches, you carry them out in no other way than that which Pope St. Gregory handed down with all your powers. For if, which we hardly believe, anyone should try, now or in the future, in any way whatsoever, to lead you back or turn you aside to any other tradition beside the one which we gave to you, we not only command that he be excommunicated from the holy body and blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, but we declare by our authority and also the authority of all our predecessors the he shall remain in perpetual anathema for his presumptuous audacity.”

Pope Leo IV in Una Res.

From this it looks like a Catholic would be held in perpetual anathema and excommunicated for participating in the type of music mentioned in this thread?

 

[ComradeAndrei]

HOW GREAT THOU ART!!!

Maybe we are talking about different songs, but that song really doesn’t seem very “baptist”, or at least jumping around and clapping baptist. Maybe more Gospel type? We sing it at funerals, mostly because it is kind of slow and somber.

I voted Gregorian Chant and traditional hymns. I went to a Tridentine High Mass last Sunday and WOW, much MUCH better than the Low Mass I attended a few weeks before and generally much better than Novus Ordo Mass (depending upon, of course, how reverent it is celebrated). I hope the priest at my local indult TLM parish keeps celebrating the High Mass because I really liked it, very reverent, much more ceremony.