Music

Father Fergus Ryan, OP

At the conference “Music and Church: Cult and Culture—50 years after Musicam Sacram,” held in Rome, March 2-4, 2017, Adoremus…

The Editors

Editor’s Note: We continue in this Bulletin a reprint of excerpts from Musicam Sacram, the Holy See’s 1967 Instruction on…

Father David M. Friel

The omnipresent replacement of proper texts with popular hymnody threatens to deprive Mass participants of a great richness.

The Editors

It’s one thing to have an opinion about liturgical music; in fact, it is difficult not to have an opinion. But having an informed opinion—one shaped by the Magisterium, the Church’s tradition, and sound pastoral practice—is quite another.

Adam Bartlett

Progressive solemnity, as put forth by the sacred music instruction, is a pastoral and practical tool that seeks to enable every parish—no matter its size, resources, capabilities or present pastoral realities—to begin singing the liturgy with integrity and to establish the sung liturgy universally as its normal form of celebration.

Adam Bartlett

On March 5th, 2017 the universal Church will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Musicam Sacram, the post-conciliar Instruction on Music in the Liturgy issued by the Holy See in the Spring of 1967.

Susan Benofy

“We must sing the liturgy, rejoicing in the treasury of sacred music …, most especially … Gregorian chant. We must sing sacred liturgical music not merely religious music, or worse, profane songs.”

The Editors

The second edition of The Adoremus Hymnal was published in 2011 to incorporate the new English translation of the Mass….

The Editors

Chirograph of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II

For the Centenary of the Motu Proprio, Tra Le Sollecitudini On Sacred Music
November 22, 2003

The Editors

Pope John Paul II Address to the Professors and Students of The Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music on Friday, January 19, 2001 …