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Participation is easily obtained with Latin chant.
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Latin
Participation
Chant
Easily
Obtained
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Record stores have whole sections devoted to the chant.
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Devoted
Record Stores
Sections
Chant
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Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.
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Liturgy
Handmaid
Roman
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Then suddenly the Roman liturgy disappeared as we knew it.
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Liturgy
Disappeared
Roman
Suddenly
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As for sacred polyphony, there is no reason to be afraid of it.
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No Reason
Sacred
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Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music.
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Sacred
Authentic
Ironically
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The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.
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Messages
Secular
Tunes
Drawn
Mainly
Rhythms
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But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.
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Hymns
Norm
Nowadays
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You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.
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Substitute
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Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation.
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Circulation
Great Masses
Masses
Recordings
Wider
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Once the Mass is restored to its rightful place, we will again see choirs being developed.
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Mass
Choirs
Developed
Restored
Rightful
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Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.
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Catholic
Catholic Church
Everywhere
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All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems.
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Versions
Turning
Catholics
Protestant
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There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.
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Bursting
Seconds
Seven
Silent
Falling
Stupider
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It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.
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Be True
Consider
Discover
Refused
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The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.
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Democratic
Hymns
Mass
Invite
Pass
Pedestrian
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When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
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Catholic
Catholic Faith
Decent
Truth Is
Western
Repertoire
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At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir.
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Atlanta
Choir
Francis
Organ
Rehearsals
Sales
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It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.
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Car
Sacred
Scrap
Seeing
Music Me Better
Bothers
Car Music Me
Commercial
Heap
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The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.
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Parish
Pastor
Walks
Director
Chant
Door
Hire
Music Director
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Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.
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Sound
Taught
Slogan
Music World More
Catholics
Importantly
Reversed
Supposed
Thus
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And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem.
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Long Term
Restoration
Rite
Fix
Larger
Roman
Speaks
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For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.
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Aesthetic
Fuse
Thousand
Thousand Years
Carefully
Guided
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You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition.
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Catholic
Consistent
Program
Rite
Churches
Count
Feature
Fully
Roman
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Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.
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Catholic
Program
Self Respect
Serious
Talent
Typical
Anywhere
Singer
Near
Organist
Retain
Wanting
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Inaudible prayers, particularly of the Canon, which at first don't seem to have anything to do with music, end up being a very important part of the aesthetic of the traditional structure of the Mass.
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Aesthetic
Canon
Mass
Structure
Traditional
Particularly
Important Part
Prayers
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