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Mar 26, 2010 · A: Church musicians need to be thoroughly familiar with Sacrosanctum Concilium, the General Instruction on the Roman Missal, Musicam Sacram, John Paul II’s Chirograph on Sa-cred Music, and Pius X’s Tra le sollecitudini. The entire his-tory of Papal legislation on sacred music is a worthy study.
Feb 9, 2024 · The pope lays out three criteria for sacred music: sanctity, goodness of form, and universality. Sacred music is discussed further in Sacrosanctum concilium, the Second Vatican Council’s constitution on the liturgy, which devotes a full chapter to the subject.
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Jul 12, 2018 · A: Church musicians need to be thoroughly familiar with Sacrosanctum Concilium, the General Instruction on the Roman Missal, Musicam sacram, John Paul II’s Chirograph on Sacred Music, and Pius X’s Tra le sollecitudini. The entire history of Papal legislation on sacred music is a worthy study.
Pope Pius distinguished three characteristics of sacred music: “it must possess holiness and beauty of form: from these two qualities a third will spontaneously arise—universality” (§2). Concerning holiness, for music to be sacred means it is not the ordinary, not the every-day.
I. The early, pre-Constantine period: Chant reigns supreme – While little if any music survives in written form from the earliest days of the Church, it seems clear (as Johannes Quasten records) that the leaders of the early Church (the Fathers and bishops) preferred monophonic music.
Sep 16, 2016 · It reiterates the necessary characteristics of sacred music from TLS: “holiness and excellence of form” (MS 4a). It specifies that sacred music includes Gregorian chant, ancient and modern sacred polyphony, sacred music for the organ and sacred music of the people (MS 4b).
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Prior to the 16th-century Reformation, sacred music was defined by its role in Catholic liturgical and devotional practice. The liturgy of the Renaissance and early modern Mass and canonical hours (Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, Nones, Vespers, and Compline) was delivered largely in plainchant but was ornamented with improvised and composed ...
