Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

You may have seen the link to MusicaSacra in the right menu margin . Just what is MusicaSacra? Let me post some information from their website and you'll soon see! Q: I’m a Catholic musician and I should know chant. I know that. I’m embarrassed to say that I can’t even read the notation! A: That’s one of the reasons we hold the colloquium. Most participants don’t have prior experience in chant notation. We have classes that start at the very beginning. You will not feel intimidated at all. Quite the reverse: people here love to teach and inspire. Q: Goodness, I don’t know how any of this music even goes. I’ve heard bits and pieces but I will know far less than everyone else. A: This is a journey for all of us. There is way too much music for people to get to know in their lifetimes. In some way, all of our knowledge is spotty, and we all have to start somewhere. The experts at the Colloquium love nothing more than to teach. Q: I’m looking at the musical lineup and I ca

Shawn Tribe of The New Liturgical Movement posts upcoming events in sacred music in CA, MI, IL, VA and internationally .

The New Liturgical Movement is also "hopping" today. Here is a sampling: " EWTN FSSP Ordinations Confirmation " " What People Really Ask About Sacred Music " " FSSP Pilgrimage in Germany from a German Reader " " Christ the King, Sweden "

Jeffrey Tucker of The New Liturgical Movement points you to a great archive of 34 videos from last year's Sacred Music Colloquium . The archive contains both Novus Ordo and Extraordinary Form Masses accompanied by music . Please read Jeffrey's description and analysis of this great treasure trove .

Charlotte Was Both : Where Bishop Olmsted of Phoenix spent part of Easter Sunday Charlotte Was Both : New Evangelization (Young people interested in Pope Benedict) First Things: On the Square : Watch EWTN--and This Space--for the Papal Visit WDTPRS : Poll in Florida about sacred music for Mass

This site contains music from the Vatican Easter Mass archived by the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music (Vatican) . This includes music from the Graduale Romanum and Graduale Simplex including the " Resurrexi ."

Once again, Fr. Z. has found a gem! The Chabanel Psalm Project is a complete collection of Psalm responses set for organ for use at Mass . As the site states: The Chabanel Psalms (generally speaking) are modal and based on Gregorian chant. They were harmonized using a very eloquent system of Gregorian modal harmony. However, many of them need not be accompanied by the organ. Then, too, many of the responses (and, actually, even the verses themselves) can be sung in harmony, but this is only recommended for groups that read music very well. The Psalms are presented as PDF files that are free for download . Please visit the site and browse. There is much to discover! And, don't forget to inform your Pastor about this resource!

The incomparable Fr. Z. gives a long summation of three long interviews published on Zenit with His Eminence Francis Card. Arinze, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments . Here is just a single long commentary: 5. Did Vatican II discourage Latin? Some people think, or have the perception, that the Second Vatican Council discouraged the use of Latin in the liturgy. This is not the case. Just before he opened the Council, Bl. Pope John XXIII in 1962 issued an Apostolic Constitution to insist on the use of Latin in the Church. [Again, Card. Arinze has brought us back to this important and purposely ignored document.] The Second Vatican Council, although it admitted some introduction of the vernacular, insisted on the place of Latin: "Particular law remaining in force, the use of the Latin language is to be preserved in the Latin rites" (SC, n. 36). The Council also required that seminarians "should acquire a command of Lati

Jeffrey Tucker and Shawn Tribe of The New Liturgical Movement have been in the vanguard in promoting Chant of all types and the NLM blog is a must visit for those interested in sacred music. This weekend Jeff is stunned by the reception his post received on the Sacred Music Workshop in Auburn, Alabama : We are rather startled and very happy to see that our announcement of our February 1-2, 2008 workshop, in Auburn, Alabama, is all over the Catholic papers this weekend, and on the front page of the paper of our own archdiocese. It is striking because this was not the experience 5 years ago. We would send our releases out and the editors would look at them with suspicion. "Hmmmm, what is this 'chant' thing?" "These people might be Lefevbrites or something." That whole atmosphere is changed completely, as editors now recognize that chant and polyphony is at least part of the contemporary Catholic music experience -- they might not understand that it is the V2