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Over the course of this summer, I have accomplished a\ndecades-long goal: to begin learning to play guitar.  Despite good intentions, attempts at\npracticing, and even the \u201clong-term loan\u201d of a guitar of my dad\u2019s, I\u2019ve simply\nnever been able to prod myself into the necessary rhythm to get very far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this summer is different.  My daughter, not quite two, has recently\nbegun watching the beloved children\u2019s show, Sesame Street<\/a><\/em>.  She watches \u201cnew\u201d versions from the last few\nmonths, or fifteen-year old episodes (you should check out the outfits)\u2014 she\u2019s\nnot picky.  She does have some favorite\nmoments though\u2014and most of these involve music. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cookie Monster is a registered trademark of Muppets, Inc.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Following her, I began picking out a few Sesame Street <\/em>tunes on the piano, like \u201cC\nis for Cookie,\u201d or Elmo\u2019s theme song, \u201cHappy, Happy Dance.\u201d  Realizing these songs were only two or three\nchords, I bravely pulled out\u2026the guitar. \nStarting with simple chord patterns, and playing just about every day, I\nslowly realized I was learning to play guitar. \nMy hands began to remember the patterns, I suddenly figured out how to\nstrum (in a way which was slightly less awkward), and I have now learned nine\nchords (yes, F major is one of them, thank you very much!).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Playing through my growing Sesame Street <\/em>repertoire has been our family\u2019s practice for much of\nthe last two months.  My husband provides\nlead vocals, while our daughter will bob along, or be inspired to grab her maracas\nor \u201cbaby guitar\u201d (a plastic, child-sized ukulele which is impossible to\ntune).  But, today, something new\nhappened.  She chose<\/em> my music for me.  Rather\nthan our cycling through my Sesame Street\n<\/em>playlist, she went up to my music shelf and pulled out, of all things, a\nthick binder of Catholic church music I compiled while playing piano for my\nyouth group choir in high school.  We\ncalled ourselves Stained Glass<\/em> (yes,\nit sounds like the 90\u2019s\u2014that\u2019s because it was). \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the dog-eared pages of the binder now open in front of\nme, my little girl scrambled up to the piano bench and demanded, \u201cmore \u2018tar!\u201d\n(meaning I was to play \u201cmore guitar\u201d). \nHaving weird flashbacks of my high school youth group compatriots, I\nflipped through the lead sheets, landing on \u201cOne Bread, One Body.\u201d  Believe it or not, save a quick chord change\nor two, I was able to play the whole thing\u2026with correct timing, turning my own\npages, and singing myself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As\nI began to excitedly turn the pages, I quickly followed up with other hits from\nthe Catholic Top 40 playlist of the 80\u2019s 90\u2019s, like \u201cOn Eagle\u2019s Wings,\u201d \u201cRoll\nAway the Stone,\u201d \u201cPeace is Flowing Like a River,\u201d and \u201cPan de Vida.\u201d  I was so proud of myself.  And, I felt a weird sense of kinship with\ngenerations of Catholics, gathered around a guitar, singing Catholic\nmusic.  I was one of them!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps this whole episode does not sound amazing to you,\nbut these fairly simply-structured songs were as a light dawning for my little\nfamily.  Like my \u201cC is for Cookie\u201d\npractice sessions, most of the above-mentioned songs have a simple chord structure\nwhich repeats, and lyrics (or at least a refrain) which are easily memorable,\nand even invite creativity with new verses or words which pertain to the moment\n(In our house, \u201cC is for Cookie\u201d frequently becomes \u201cP is for Papa,\u201d etc.).  All three of us could become involved in\nthese immediately accessible tunes.  My\ndaughter was loving it, with shouts of \u201cmore \u2018tar!\u201d left and right.  \u201cC is for Cookie\u201d may be children\u2019s music, but\nit\u2019s music which is meant to engage loving tiny human beings into active, intelligent\nparticipation.  In this unplanned family jam\nsession, I felt like I was seeing a parallel universe: \u201cThey\u2019ll Know We are\nChristians by Our Love\u201d is the people\u2019s music\u2014<\/em>and it may even be the People of God\u2019s music.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I am a die-hard advocate for four-part hymnody, want\nto sing the actual chant versions of the sequences-thank-you-very-much, and am\nan organist myself, I think I\u2019ve had some strange, tangible, and communal\ninsight into why <\/em>Catholic music\ninspired by folk idioms worked so well. They worked well because people could\nsing them, grasp them immediately, and make them their own.  They spoke to the people, and the people\nresponded in praise.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I should also, say, though, that these songs \u201cworked\u201d\nwell.  We know that the above-mentioned\nsongs hold a special place in many of our hearts, and continue to serve as\nstaples among numerous Catholic parishes. \nWe should also be grateful to the many composers who pioneered such\nmusic, easily rendered with mixed ensembles of instruments, and flexible enough\nto be sung by choirs or, in my own case, high school youth\ngroups.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I think about the \u201cpeople\u2019s music\u201d in 2019, I can\u2019t\nignore the phenomenon of \u201cpraise\u201d as a genre. \nMy college students are certainly aware of Catholic praise music\u2014and I\nrun into praise songs in Catholic parishes wherever I go.  Cookie Monster has made me realize that I\nshould, perhaps, have more patience for praise music.  Perhaps I should admit that I\u2019m relieved when\nmy hands are too full with a two-year-old to hold a hymnal and a song I have\nmemorized is played.    Perhaps there\u2019s something good about music\nwhich only has a few words to remember.  Perhaps\nthe line from Sacrosanctum Concilium <\/em>about\nadapting \u201cmore suitably to the needs of our own times\u201d (SC<\/em> 1) is meant to constantly flex\u2014from year to year, decade to\ndecade, generation to generation, and from the \u201cAllelu<\/a>\u201d\nof 1966 to the \u201cGreat Are\nYou Lord<\/a>\u201d of 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I\u2019m grateful to our friends from Sesame Street<\/em> today.  As the current theme song<\/a>\nstates, Sesame Street <\/em>invites us to\nbecome \u201csmarter, stronger, and kinder.\u201d \nI certainly learned something from my exposure to this children\u2019s\nclassic television show\u2014which, too, has flexed constantly, adapting from year\nto year, and generation to generation, to the needs of our times.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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She edits the blog, Pray Tell.","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/author\/kharmon\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/C-is-for-Cookie.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48436,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48431\/revisions\/48436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}