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  • A chant expert on the new chants

    Bruce Ford writes: “The ICEL musicians ought to have read John Boe’s dissertation, ‘The Ordinary in English: Anglican Plainsong Kyrials and Their Sources’ (Northwestern University, 1969) before they did their work. They appear to have been unaware of all but the most obvious ‘set-forms.'”

  • Will interest in English propers endure?

    The liturgical function of the proper chants is to aid meditation upon scriptural texts. When the chants are sung in Latin, they can serve this function for only a few. –Bruce. E. Ford