Burn Those Hymnals!
Why Catholics Can't Sing was the title of a book a few years ago; Jeffrey Tucker makes "the controversial claim" that "there is nothing wrong with this" — In Defense of Non-Singing Congregations.
He makes the convincing case that "the hymn—which I define here in the common usage as a metrically divided, melodically strophic song with rhyming vernacular text—has no traditional place in Catholic liturgy, particularly in not Mass."
He makes the convincing case that "the hymn—which I define here in the common usage as a metrically divided, melodically strophic song with rhyming vernacular text—has no traditional place in Catholic liturgy, particularly in not Mass."
Labels: Musica Sacra, The Catholic Faith
4 Comments:
19th century hymns accompanied by a droning organ are the equivalent of a sonic lobotomy. I'd prefer Emmanuel Community style praise sining accompanied by [blasphemy coming] guitar and tambourine. Lacking that, nothing, chant, or Mozart accompanied by organ...in that order.
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The liturgical music in my parish is so bad that the choir, an amalgamation of deaf septigenarians who have no idea how to read music let alone sing (Common time, 3/4, 4/4 time is all the same 1/1.)that sometimes they forget the words, and the tune, and can't keep up with the faithful. Sometimes we have 2 sections of the Church snging the same hymn a stanza apart!
When I say this is usually get a snide "Why don't you sing then?"
To which I can only reply "I, unlike them, know I cannot sing."
It is an attempt to mix a quasi High Mass with a novus ordo mass.
It can't be done.
attending mass would be so much more pleasant if it were not for the 'singing'. (I actually looked around for a church which did not have a choir, or a mass time when the chor did not sing, but to no avail.)
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