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In keeping with the embrace of tradition

Chant Café has an interesting setting of an English Gloria – use it while you can, it has a shelf date of 11/20/2011. I like the notation, and I think this is a good example of the ‘hermeneutic of...

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The Agony and the Ecstasy: The Fundamental Importance of Liturgical Chant in...

Msgr. Andrew Wadsworth, executive director of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL), gave this address yesterday at the colloquium of the Church Music Association of America....

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Adjustments to the fifth edition of the General Instruction to the Roman Missal

Thanks to Jeffrey A. Tucker at The Chant Café, I have become aware that the Holy See ordered ICEL to coordinate the three extant English translations of the GIRM (US, Australia, and England and Wales)...

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No. Big. Deal.

Moderator’s note: Just as I posted this, I saw that Paul Ford posted on the same topic. Oh well – we’ll leave both posts up.  -  awr This just in: the updated translation of the General Instruction of...

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“Authentic Liturgy, Authentic Chant”?

Father Anthony, Gordon Truitt, and I were asked to write about the missal of Pope Benedict XVI for the GIA Quarterly. My contribution is intended to be a contribution to the conversation about the...

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The Lifespan of MR2010

The Chant Café links an interview from The Tablet with Mgr. Wadsworth of ICEL. Three points struck me: There is a very frank acknowledgement of the many changes made by Vox Clara (though the article...

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Does the Ordinary Form Have a Distinctive Voice?

Jeffrey A. Tucker, managing editor of Sacred Music and a friendly and thoughtful dialogue partner, has responded at the Chant Café to my report of the CMAA Colloquium XXII in Salt Lake City. Does the...

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Fr. Pasley on the Distinctive Voices of the Ordinary Form of the Mass

Over at the Chant Café, Fr. Robert Pasley, the chaplain of the Church Music Association of America, has a written a lengthy addition to our conversation about the ways in which the forms of the Mass...

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Did the pre-Vatican II Mass really have more Scripture than now?

Over at Chant Cafe, I just read a claim which is often made about the quantity of Scripture in the pre-Vatican II Mass compared to the reformed rite: Contrary to some underinformed claims, the 1962...

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2013 RETRSPECTIVE: Toward the transformation of traditionalism

Editor’s note: In these final days of 2013, we feature some of the most interesting and popular posts of the past year. Other retrospective features have been Anthony Ruff, Pope Francis’ Liturgical...

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