Tag: Church Music Association of America (CMAA)

Some Liturgy and Music Events II: June – September 2013

Some additional Liturgy and Music Events for June – September 2013.

May 30, 2013
Fr. Pasley on the Distinctive Voices of the Ordinary Form of the Mass

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 may enrich one another. I received permission to reprint it here on Pray Tell as part of my larger desire to create respectful dialogue.

July 21, 2012
Mass facing the people—a defense

To some readers of Pray Tell it might seem eyebrow-raising to be addressing this issue in the summer of 2012. But some of our friends continue to assert that we regular celebrators of the OF are laboring under a massive misunderstanding of the implementation documents of the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council. So…

July 21, 2012
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.

July 20, 2012
CMAA Colloquium, June 25-July 1, Salt Lake City

The colloquium this year offers opportunities both for the professional musicians as well as non-musicians who would like to know more about chant. Sign up!

May 2, 2012
The Agony and the Ecstasy: The Fundamental Importance of Liturgical Chant in the Roman Missal and Our Celebration of the Eucharistic Mystery

by Msgr. Andrew Wadsworth, ICEL executive director

June 15, 2011
Singing the Mass

by Jeffrey Tucker, managing editor of the journal Sacred Music. “Many Council fathers hoped for a liturgical reform that would put an end to the pre-conciliar practice of vernacular hymnody dominating the Mass. They wanted to universalize the high Mass with music that is native to the ritual. It didn’t turn out that way, for…

December 30, 2010
Collegeville Conference on Music, Liturgy and the Arts

Wow, there’s a lot going on in Collegeville this summer. CCMLA, June 21-24, “New Music, New Texts: Preparing for a New Missal.”

March 9, 2010
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

February 20, 2010