Sentences with phrase «of liturgical music»

The Graduale Parvum jointly published by the Church Music Association of America and The Blessed John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music: media.musicasacra.com/books/parvum.

The Graduale Parvum, now being completed by the Blessed John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music in Birmingham, offers simple and extremely usable chant Propers in both English and Latin, drawn from a range of authentic Gregorian sources.

The movie had a better sense of liturgical music than most Catholic parishes: Actually, the real reason I like to see any film in which the Catholic Church is featured prominently concerns the music.

Not exact matches

He'd make hundreds of handshake connections at community events, then find solitude well past midnight in his condo or office, immersing himself in paperwork, books, Gregorian chants or Armenian liturgical music.

Thus Evangelical Catholicism's approach to church architecture, decoration, music, vesture, and all the other tangibles of the Church's liturgical life proceeds from the question, «Is this beautiful in such a way that it helps disclose the living God in Word and Sacrament?»

The book includes sections on liturgy and time, on the significance of the church building, on direction in liturgical prayer, reservation of the Blessed Sacrament, music, and more.

The «religiously devout» is important, for Geck puts to death the notion, prominent from the early 1960s through the 1980s, that correct dating of Bach's cantata production proves that his interest in writing liturgical music was a professional obligation only and that Bach had no abiding commitment to the religious texts he was paid to set.

It is appropriate for a German to be profound on Church music, and, like many of us, he can not explain why the clear order of the Second Vatican Council on music has been turned on its head: «Gregorian chant should be given pride of place in liturgical services.»

This is not to say that the use of the vernacular in liturgy and liturgical music is a mistake.

Laypeople reading Scripture lessons, serving in choirs, providing instrumental music, and performing various liturgical tasks announce that the life of this congregation and its leadership are shared by clergy and laity.

What's happened, of course, is that over the past thirty years the central purpose of Catholic worship» the Eucharist» has been all but lost in a sea of concerns about community building, lay ministry, liturgical language, battles over music and statues, and yet more community building.

In the churches and congregations we find fresh energy and intelligence being devoted to the production of new hymns, music, artistic and liturgical materials, to the creation of fresh categories for doing theology, to the retrieval of threatened cultural resources, to the application of faith to public issues, and to the promotion of ecumenical sharing and partnership.

In the process they found themselves in contact with people who not only had musical tastes that were more to the liturgical side, but who — even when seeking worship «reform» — looked to the developing body of folk masses and new hymnody rather than to the Fanny Crosby — Ira Sankey — Francis Havergal — Homer Rodeheaver canon or the world of Gospel music.

In order to understand liturgical music we must understand the dichotomy of the world in which it exists.

I am intrigued by the creative possibilities of ancient - future worship — liturgical structure overlaid with image, music and movement, technologically aware but refusing to flaunt it.

Many of my generation received their upbringing surrounded by bland, ugly, and often downright counter-mystical modern church architecture, hidden tabernacles, and banal modern liturgical music more suitable to failed off - Broadway theater.

Traditional liturgical music also complements Bishop Barron's emphasis on the Christian fulfillment of the Old Testament, in that it is suffused with the language of the Psalms.

When I consider my own earnest efforts to «clean up» the weddings in which I participate — the counseling, the rigid liturgical rules, the list of proscribed music — I sometimes wonder if these are more for than for the bride and groom.

People who major in small - group worship often miss the music of the sanctuary as well as the liturgical drama related to the church year and the celebration of the church's festival days.

Luckily, if you're into liturgical pageantry, the Vigil starts with candles in the dark, ends in the light, and has all sorts of incense, bell ringing, beautiful music, and probably another ten things I'm forgetting.

Since all people of the world, including the most Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

About Blog A discussion of Anglican hymnody, chants and other service music in the broader context of liturgical Christian music.