Sacred Music, 112.2, Summer 1985; The Journal of the Church Music Association of America

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SACRED MUSIC Volume 112, Number 2(Summer) 1985


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SACRED MUSIC Continuation of Caecilia, published by the Society of St. Caecilia since 1874,an d Th e Catholic Choirmaster, published by the Society of St. Gregory ofAmerica since 1915. Published quarterly by the Church Music Association ofAmerica. Office of publications: 548 Lafond Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota55103.Editorial Board: Rev. Msgr. Richard J. Schuler, Editor

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Relief. Church of St. Cecilia, Cologne.

FROM THE EDITORSGregorian Chant and the Vernacular

Interest in using the Gregorian melodies with vernacular languages continues tosurface, especially in the United States, even though inEurope the idea is no longerseriously pursued. To a certain extent, the Vatican Council itself gave impetus to suchexperimentation, since itordered the preservation and use of Gregorian chant and atthe same time permitted the employment of vernacular tongues in the sung liturgy.In German-speaking countries, the movement for the use of the vernacular wasunderway much earlier than in other lands, and experiments and studies were under-taken as early as the 1930's to use chant with German texts. Serious reports weremade about the feasibility of such efforts. Johannes Hatzfeld presented a memoran-dum to the German bishops' conference in 1953, indicating that the combining of theGerman language and the Gregorian melodies was not possible. The AllgemeinerCaecilien Verband published a compilation of studies on the matter in 1961, beforethe Second Vatican Council had even convened. Such authorities as Urbanus Bomm,abbot of Maria Laach, Ernst Tittel of Vienna and Father Eugene Cardine of Solesmesrepeatedly wrote and spoke against such adaptations. The new liturgical books inthe vernacular with their chant melodies for English texts are proof enough of theimpossibility of the process. FROM THE EDITORS


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Two important factors are involved in this question: 1) the need to preserve intactthe corpus of Gregorian chant in its authentic melodies; 2) the necessity of creatingnew, truly artistic music to adorn the new vernacular texts.First, the scholarly research into the manuscripts containing the ancient melodiesundertaken in the second half of the 19th century, which continues into the present,is one of the greatest m usicological projects ever brought to completion. The w ork ofthe Solesmes monks and the several efforts of musicologists in other lands, includingPeter Wagner, are hailed by all as truly significant contributions to the art of music.Their work resulted in the restoration of the Gregorian melodies and the publicationof the Vatican Edition, which spread the ancient chant of the Roman Church into allnations for universal use. To protect that research and its ancient heritage, the HolySee forbade strictly any change in the official melodies, since such would be amutilation.Secondly, in musical composition, notes are created to ado rn a given text. Texts arenot manipulated to fit a melody. The melody adorns the words, grows out of themand is closely united to them by the prosody, the meter, the quan titative and qualita-tive characteristics of the language, the tonic accent, the sentence structure and thevery organic nature of the words themselves. A melody composed to a text cannot beseparated from it and applied to another text or even a translation of that textwithout seriously altering the original. Chant melodies were composed to Latin textsand through the centuries they have come to be reverenced in a way analogous to thereverence paid to the Holy Scriptures. To adapt them is a violation.Attempts at adaptation have failed. Even the efforts of the Solesmes monks beforethe Second Vatican Council to prepare chants for the new feasts which were intro-duced into the liturgy were not successful, and those were attempts using Latin texts.The vernacular languages are much farther removed. The new Graduate Romanumhas eliminated all the ersatz centonizations that have been judged no t to be au thentic.The preface to the revised volume clearly indicates the principle of maintaining onlyauthentic chants and eliminating all later inventions or modifications. T he melodiesmust be preserved intact. If new texts for new feasts are introduced into the liturgy,then new melodies in a contemporary idiom must be found to adorn them. Here isthe challenge of ou r time and the great opportun ity of each age to create a new musicin its own idiom for its new liturgies.What, then, is the solution of this problem? How is the Gregorian chant to bepreserved and fostered and given primacy of place? And how are we to have musicfor the new vernacu lar texts? It is simple. The Vatican Council has given the solu-tion . Sing the Gregorian chant in Latin, since it is the official language of the Churchand its use is mandated. But create a new music for the texts of the various vernacu-lar liturgies. In that way, we will preserve intact and use the treasure of the centuries,and at the same time, we will create a new music that is truly art and not mereimitation or ad aptation. When we try to adapt texts or melodies, we have neither theancient treasure nor do we have a new art, but only a poor imitation. R.J.S.Acoustics and Church Music

Acoust ics has to do wi th sound a n d space. From a musician 's viewpo int it is of theutmost importance since it so closely impinges on his produc t fo r bet ter or for worse .We tend today to think of it chiefly with respect to the various materials that reflector absorb the sound tha t w e produce . W e l ook at a church a n d rejoice for the stone,plaster a n d wood surfaces; w e l ament th e carpets , th e absorbent t i les and the draper-FROM THE EDITORS ies.


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For the choral musician, whose very purpose is to blend the harmon ics producedby his organization, the absorption of his raw material into soft surfaces spellsdisaster at worst, frustration at least. For the pastor who wishes his congregationwould sing more vigorously, the fact that no one can hear anyone else thoroughlydiscourages most of his people, and his efforts to have them sing never get anyw here.Acoustics is the science of sound and in our time has become so important inplanning concert halls and opera houses, but so little is done in the building of newchurches. Acoustics is important not just for hearing, but it is even more importantfor making music.The ancients and the medieval architects knew a great deal about the properties ofsound and the need to build in such a way that the sound would be fostered andimproved. After all, the invention of the loud-speaker system is within the memoryof many even today. The need for the preacher and the cantor to project sound wasimportant in the building of cathedrals as well as smaller parish churches. TheRoman liturgy is built upon the spoken and sung word; sound must be audible.Musicians likewise knew what they had to do in composing for the buildings theywould be asked to fill with sound. I learned this in a very practical way when theTwin Cities Catholic Chorale and the Dallas Catholic Choir toured in Europe in thesummer of 1974. We sang in the great gothic cathedral in Cologne; we were a groupof eighty voices. The six-voice Hexachord Mass of Palestrina was on our program,while the proper parts of the Mass were in Gregorian chant, sung by a small scholaof three or four men. After the Mass the comments were that the chant parts wereheard clearly and projected throughout the vast church, but the Palestrina poly-phony was not distinct and was lost in a confusion of sounds. How could it be thateighty voices were lost but three could be clearly heard?In Rome we sang in Saint Peter's Basilica. Again we sang the Palestrina Mass. Thebasilica is enormous, but the strains of the polyphony were clearly audible even inthe heights of the great dome. Here the music fit, and the style of compositionbelonged in the architecture of the building, whereas in Cologne, the polyphonicintricasies of the sixteenth century polyphony were foreign to the medieval buildingwhich was perfect for the music of the middle ages, the Gregorian chant. Musicianswere aware of the properties of the building, and they composed that kind of musicwhich allowed for the projection of their sounds to all parts of the edifice.It is true that these buildings were not carpeted and had no acoustical tile liningtheir walls. But there is an element in their construction, whether they are gothic,renaissance or baroque in style, that is so often overlooked today in planning ournew churches. It is the fact of proportion and geometry. Sound is intimately relatedto proportion. There is a kind of sacred geometry that should be considered in plansfor a church. The ancient, medieval and baroque architects knew this, and themusicians composed their music to correspond to it.

It is no secret that the geometric proportions used in the historic buildings both inEurope and in this country are related to the basic consonant musical ratios: theoctave, 1:2; the fifth, 2:3; the fourth, 3:4; and the major third, 4:5. The proportion1:2 (musically the octave) dom inates so much sacred architecture. The naves of theseclassic buildings have a relationship between their length and width and heighth.That there is a relationship between the visible proportion and the audible world ofmusical sound is found in various cultures including the medieval gothic architects,especially the Cistercians. In their churches, so purified of visible ornament, theimportance of sound in touching the human spirit became ever more realized. With-out here getting into the psychological question about the relative merits of hearingand seeing and whether the spoken word is primary in the search for truth (fides exauditu), it must be admitted that sound does touch the spirit directly and exercises an FROM THE EDITORS


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important force on the emotions and the person who experiences it in the fulness ofits force and beauty. One may or may not agree with the reforming spirit of SaintBernard and the Cistacian purity and austerity, both in the architecture and musicthat he fostered, but the fact is that when the visual was removed, the audible wasemphasized and the emotional impact that was produced through sound broughtabout great religious experiences.Today's church building has produced a monstrous acoustical nightmare thatmusicians must battle even to accomplish a minimum of beauty and emotionalaffect. We all know the impossible situation created by carpets, acoustical tiles,drapes and hangings. How often a great expenditure of parish money for a pipeorgan seems so ineffective because the sounds the organ produces are absorbed intothe walls and furniture of the building. But there is something more basic that isrobbing the organ, the choir and the singing congregation of the value of music inreaching the souls of those who sing or listen. It lies in the geometry of presentchurch building. The length, the heighth and the width of the structure. Soundwaves must have space, just as light waves. They must travel, be reflected andproduce the fulness of their harmonic potentials. Tha t requires space, and the spacethat receives sounds that have themselves a proportion must itself be in a propor-

tion. When the architecture and the music utilize a basic relationship, that of geo-metric proportion, then both are successful in reaching the soul of the worshiper forwhom the building was built and the music composed and performed.Today's churches lack length and they lack height, and the space itself is usually sominimal little chance for the movement of sound and its reflection is possible. Thefulness of the harmonic richness is lost and the music does not achieve its potential.It falls flat and is deprived of its purpose to touch the hea rts of the faithful and giveglory to God.Can it be tha t our age has not produced a great sacred m usic since the buildings wemust perform in have been of such impossible acoustical construction that the art isunable to thrive in them? Even when we succeed in keeping the acoustical tiles and

carpets out, is not the problem still present since the very shape of the new buildingmilitates against the sound that should fill it instead of encouraging it as it should.We have much that we can learn from the great churches of the past. Even thoughtheir styles are different, yet in the Roman basilica, the romanesque and gothic longnaves, the square church of the renaissance and the wide baroque building, theproportions remained and the sound was embellished. Our day should well have itsown style, but the basic construction should not be unaware of the relationshipbetween the geometric proportions of the building and the basic ratio that musicitself possesses in its harmonic structure.The ancients found a mystical relationship in the musical proportions, and themedieval world knew it as an aesthetic tradition. It was maintained during thebaroque period, but the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have overthrown theclassical aesthetics and in so-doing have caused a rupture between science and art,between the spirit and m atter, each going its own way, one toward rationalism, theother toward a subjective emotionalism. But for us the spirit is reached only throughmatter, but sound, which is matter, touches the spirit directly. Saint Paul did say that"faith comes from hearing." R.J.S.

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WHAT MAKES MUSIC SACRED?(This pap er was given at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, Janu ary 18, 1985.)A great debate has been underway for sometime about the sacred and the secular.There are some who wish to deny the very existence of "sacred." Oth ers say all thingsare sacred, confusing the notion of sacred with good, as used by the scriptures whenGod viewed His creation and "saw that it was good." This debate enters into all areasof life, including the field of art, and especially the art of music where the notion of"sacred music" has been almost a household term for years.This debate between the sacred and the secular is felt, for example, in conventsand m onasteries by monks and nuns who are attempting to adjust their consecrated,dedicated lives to their position in a modern world. It is met in theology, andespecially in ascetical theology, where the term "world" was long taken to be theequivalent of evil. We find it in architecture, where it is hard to distinguish a sacredbuilding from a secular one; in dance, where one may be at a a loss to say that whatis being performed is sacred or not; in clothing and vestments, even when associatedwith liturgical actions.The Oxford dictionary defines "sacred" as "consecrated, dedicated, set apart,made holy by association with a deity." It defines "secular" as "pertaining to theworld as distinguished from the church and religion; with reference to music, notconcerned with or devoted to the service of religion, not sacred, but profane."What m akes music sacred? W hat m akes anything sacred? Things are not sacred inand of themselves. As the dictionary states, they are consecrated, dedicated, setapart; someone must do this for them. Here lies the key to determining what issacred or no t, bu t how this comes about involves the history of the human race; forus musicians, it involves the entire history of music, here in the west and in the east.The question of the sacred and the profane concerned the fathers of the earlyChurch, many of whom were convinced that the pagan influences so opposed to

Christianity could creep into the Church through artistic and musical devices associ-ated with the various pagan cults and lascivious practices. Instrumental music wasparticularly suspect and feared, as Clement of Alexandria (C.15O-C.22O), a verylearned man with musical and poetical talents, warned. He rejected "the ancientpsaltery, the trumpet, the timbrel and aulos, which those engaged in war and thosewho reject the fear of God make use of in the singing at their festivals."In the Alexandrian tradition of allegorical interpretation of the scriptures, Euse-bius of Caesarea (c.260-c.340), the church historian, disapproved of instruments andsubstituted various allegories for the realities to explain his position. He wrote: "Wesing the praises of God with a living psaltery." He called the body the cithara and thelyre of ten strings the five bodily senses and the five virtues of the soul in trying toexplain references to the use of such instruments in the Old Testament. Saint Athana-sius (c.298-373) followed in the same Alexandrian viewpoint.In the west, Saint Jerome (c.340-420) was opposed to the use of instruments inChristian worship and made his influence felt on his friend Pope Damasus, in aperiod when much of the organ ization of the Roman liturgy w as taking place. SaintAugustine (354-430) did much to achieve a synthesis between the learning of paganGreece and Rome and the Christian faith, but he still accepted an allegorical interpre-tation of the use of instruments in Christian worship, chiefly because of the fear ofthe association connected with their use in pagan cults. It was, of course, alwaysPsalm 150 that caused the problem for the commentators, since it so distinctly callsfor the praise of God w ith instruments: "Praise the Lord with the sound of the tuba;praise Him with psaltery and harp."

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about the dangers inherent in the use of instrumental music or in the singing ofwomen, because the association of these things with the pagan rites was graduallybeing forgotten as paganism waned and disappeared. At the same time, as theChurch grew, it was able, little by little, to make use in its worship of those cultural,artistic and popular traditions of the Mediterranean basin that formerly had be-longed in some p art, at least, topagan celebrations. The music itself was not pagan;it was the association it had with paganism that created the problem for the fathersof the Church. Once that connotation ceased to be attached toinstrumental music, tothe singing of women and certain harmonies and melodies, the problem no longerloomed large. After the time of Augustine, the old fears were beginning to belessened and the writers and preachers no longer are opposed to music. In the periodwhen the Church and Christian influence are small and struggling and the dangers ofthe secular engulfing the sacred are great, we hear cries of alarm from the religiouswriters. When the influence of the Church is great, the danger of secularization isless, and we often find secular things being broug ht into religious use withou t fear ofprofanation.

Let us examine several periods in the history of music with these two points inmind: 1) connotation, and 2) the absorption of the sacred by the secular and viceversa, in periods of greater or lesser Christian influence.First, the question of connotation. By connotation we understand the meaning orsignificance attribu ted to something over a long period of time by the entire comm u-nity. It does not change easily, but it can change. It is external to the thing itself, butuse and tradition develop characteristic notions that seem to be inherent. In ancientGreece, the aulos and the cithara were instruments employed in the worship ofDionysius and Appollo, and for the converts to Christianity in Greek lands thesesounds recalled all the rites of pagan worship in their past lives and endangered theirattachment to the newly embraced Christian faith. As paganism declined, genera-tions grew up who had never experienced pagan rites and for whom the associationof instruments with sinful festivities did not exist. In time, these instruments came tobe used in Christian life and even in Christian worship. In a sense they ceased to bepagan and secular and even became sacred, because the secular and pagan associa-tions were no longer present.One can see a similar pattern inmuch of the music that came to be the great corpusof Roman chant. A considerable bulk of it was derived from the folk music ofthe Mediterranean regions. These melodies lost their secular associations and ac-quired religious ones as the Church grew in influence on the lives of the people of thefifth and sixth centuries. We can see a similar thing happening in other artistic andcultural areas during those centuries also, when the Roman Empire was changinginto the new medieval order. For example, the old garments of the Roman patricianswere retained as the vestments of the clergy; the very shape and structure of theChristian church building was borrowed from the ancient basilica which was or-ginally a secular edifice, a law court or market; the political nomenclature of theancient empire was accepted by the Church as she organized her dioceses, provinces,and prefectures, or sent out her legates andnuncios; the faldstoool, the chalice itself,the bishop's garb, the use of the statues, mosaics and painting, were all found inpagan and secular culture. But as the Church spread and grew, connections thatmany things had with paganism and secular uses were forgotten, and they becamefitting aids to Christian living and worship.Through the middle ages there seems tohave been little concern for a distinctionbetween the sacred and the secular. Today, we cannot easily detect the differencebetween the melodies of the troubadours and the trouveres and those melodies

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most impor tan t fac to r in de termin ing i f a p iece i s to be labe led as sacred o r no t . Evenwh en Po p e Jo h n XXI I sp o k e o u t so s t r o n g ly in t h e co n s t i t u t i o n , Docta sanctorum, in1 3 2 4 , h e wa s n o t so co n ce r n ed ab o u t secu la r i n f lu en ces a s h e w as w i th t h e p r o p e r u seof the church modes , the in te l l ig ib i l i ty o f the tex ts , and the genera l d ign i ty o f these r v i ce wh ich h e f e l t h ad b een en d an g e r ed b y th e n o v e l t i e s o f t h e Ar s No v a .

T h e e a r l y r e n a i s s a n c e p e r i o d f o u n d n o p r o b l e m i n e m p l o y i n g p r o f a n e s o u r c e s -c h a n s o n s , m a d r i g a l s , l i e d e r f o r a cantus prius factus o f a M a s s c o m p o s i t i o n , a n deven in en t i t l ing the work f rom the secu lar sources to iden t i fy i t s o r ig ins . These weren o t ex cep t io n a l ly p r o f an e o r secu la r t im es . On th e co n t r a r y , i n ad d i t i o n to t h e f ac tth a t t h e secu la r co n n o ta t io n s o f a ch an so n o r a m ad r ig a l cantus were los t in theco m p lex i t i e s o f co n t r ap u n ta l t r e a tm en t , we m u s t r em em b er t h a t t h e t im es we r e su chtha t re l ig ion was s t i l l s t rong in i t s in f luence on l i fe and thus the sacred was ab le toab so r b th e secu la r . On ly wh en th e Ca th o l i c f a i t h b eg an to weak en u n d e r t h e s t r e s s o fth e P r o t e s t an t r e f o r m a t io n d o we h av e th i s d ev ice o f u s in g a secu la r cantus for ar e l i g io u s co m p o s i t i o n f o r b id d en b y th e Co u n c i l o f T r en t . T h e co m p o se r s i n d eedco n t in u ed to wr i t e a Missa sine nomine wh er e th e secu la r cantus was s t i l l used bu tn o t i d en t i f i ed , b u t n o o n e o b jec t ed b ecau se th e a s so c i a t i o n o f t h e m e lo d ie s w i ths e c u l a r s o u r c e s w a s n o t m a d e .T h e seco n d p o in t of o u r co n s id e r a t io n i s t h a t wh en th e Ca th o l i c f a i th an d r e l i g io nare s t ron g , the dang er o f the secu lar engu lf ing the sacred i s m uc h less , an d thu s weex p e r i en ce l i t t l e o u t c r y ag a in s t t h e secu la r . Wi th o u t r ep ea t in g th e h i s to r y o f e achage , i t shou ld su f f ice to say tha t th is was t rue in the ear ly midd le ages as ins t rumenta lm u s ic cam e to b e ad o p ted in to t h e l i t u r g y . T h e p ip e o r g an , f o r ex am p le , was i n i t so r ig in a secu la r i n s t r u m en t , b u t i n t h e h ig h m id d le ag es it wa s so r eg u la r ly f o u n d a s ap a r t o f t h e ch u r ch f u r n i tu r e t h a t i t b ecam e the s a c r e d i n s t r u m e n t par excellence. Inth e f o u r th , f i f t h an d s ix th cen tu r i e s t h e ch an t ab so r b ed a g r ea t b u lk o f t h e M ed i t e r r a -n ea n fo lk m u s ic , a s Ch r i s t i an i ty b eca m e an a ll p o wer f u l e l em en t i n E u r o p ean l if e .T h r o u g h o u t t h e m id d le ag es t h e sac r ed p e r v ad ed a l l l i f e an d d o m in a ted i t s s ecu la ra sp ec t s i n ev e r y sp h e r e . Wh a t we p o sse s s o f m ed iev a l m u s ic , p a in t in g , s cu lp tu r e , an da r ch i t e c tu r e d em o n s t r a t e s t h i s ag a in an d ag a in .

I n m u s ic , t h e se r io u s an d l a s t i n g d i ch o to m y b e tween th e sac r ed an d th e secu la rth a t we k n o w to d ay d a t e s f r o m th e b eg in n in g o f t h e b a r o q u e e r a , t h e ea r ly sev en -t een th cen tu r y . I t was t h en th a t t h e sp l i t i n m u s ica l s ty l e b e tween sac r ed an d secu la rb eg an , wh ich l ed to t h e g r ad u a l d ecay o f ch u r ch m u s ic , a d ec l in e t h a t m u s ic i an s f o rth e p a s t o n e h u n d r ed y ea r s h av e b een t r y in g to a r r e s t . T h e b a r o q u e e r a was v e r yco n ce r n ed w i th an d co n sc io u s o f s ty l e . T h e u n i ty o f s ty l e t h a t h ad ch a r ac t e r i z ed th em u s ic o f t h e m id d le ag es an d th e r en a i s san ce was lo s t wh en th e n ew d ev ice s f o r t h eex p r e s s io n o f t h e a f f ec t io n s o f t h e b a r o q u e we r e ap p l i ed to t h e m u s ic o f t h e Ch u r chas so o n a s t h ey ap p ea r ed in secu la r f o r m s , p a r t i cu a r ly o p e r a . T h ey we r e j u d g ed b yso m e to b e u n f i t t i n g f o r t h e m u s ic o f wo r sh ip . T h ese n ew t ech n iq u es we r e e s sen t i a l l yd ev ice s f o r d i sp l ay in g th e so - ca l l ed a f f ec t io n s t h r o u g h m u s ic . T h ey we r e t h o u g h t t ob e u n d ig n i f i ed an d u n wo r th y in co n n ec t io n w i th t h e sac r ed t ex t s o f t h e l i t u r g y . T h u sb eg an th e c r ea t io n o f a p a r t i cu l a r s ac r ed s ty l e a f t e r t h e m an n e r o f Pa l e s t r i n a ' s co m -p o s i t i o n s , a s ty l e o f wr i t i n g se t a s id e a s a sac r ed m u s ic . T h e n ew d ev e lo p m en t s i nco m p o s i t i o n we r e g en e r a l ly r e l eg a t ed to n o n - ch u r ch m u s ic an d we r e t h e r e f o r e co n -s id e r ed a l l t h e m o r e secu la r an d u n f i t t i n g f o r ch u r ch u se . T h e Ch u r ch h e r se l f was o nth e d e f en s iv e ag a in s t t h e r e f o r m er s , an d th e sac r ed was u n d e r a t t a ck a l so . I t co u ld n olo n g e r ab so r b an d a s s im i l a t e t h e secu la r . T h u s , i n t h e ea r ly 1 7 th cen tu r y , t h e v e r yp r o b lem th a t a f f l i c t s u s t o d ay was b o r n , an d we l i v e t o a g r ea t d eg r ee u n d e r t h ein f luences o f the 17 th cen tury . We cannot eas i ly push as ide in a shor t t ime what hasg r o wn an d b eco m e in g r a in ed f o r n ea r ly f o u r h u n d r ed y ea r s .

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ences, secular music has been absorbed into the Church's life and worship withoutfear of secularization or profanation, but when the faith declined in influence, greatconcern is shown for the dangers involved in such a process.But is there any real distinction between sacred and secular in music? Is theresomething essentially sacred in a church style? Are certain melodies, rhythms orharmonies by their very nature holy or sacred and others secular and profane? M usicis music; of itself it is neither sacred or secular, just as mathem atics is neither sacrednor secular. But by association, by connotation, the consent of society, or thepractice of the community, certain devices, harmonies, or rhythmsin a word, acertain style of composition and performancehas come to be called secular andanother style sacred. In studies on the psychology of music this is referred to by theterm "connotation" or the "result of associations made between some aspect of themusical organization and extra musical experience."Training and experience are necessary to establish such connotations, and onceestablished they are hard to overcome. They are not merely individual, personalassociations, bu t the common experience of a whole cultural grou p. We all know thedifficulties involved in determining the emotions expressed by most oriental musicthat we hear; we are unconditioned by experience or study to know if it is sad orjoyous, religious or secular. Music in itself is not a language of absolute terms ofcomm unication. It differs from spoken language where sounds have absolute mean-ings agreed upon by the whole community. To express descriptive ideas, music mustbe dependent on outside means words, pictures or onomatopoeic effects. Of itselfit can convey only what experience and training have come to associate with certainsounds o r devices. Thus we arrive at certain notions of what music for church shouldbe by association and experience from our very earliest days. Some associations areentirely traditional. The pipe organ , for example, for the peoples of western cultureis associated with church and evokes attitudes of piety, religion and faith. This is nottrue of the oriental who lacks such experience. For him the gong, on the other han d,is a common sound lacking the westerners' connotation of the mysterious and theexotic.Associations can develop and can cease to exist also. Life is constantly formingnew connotations in everyone. Some ages have consciously developed a system ofelaborate connotative devices in their music. By means of melodic, rhythmic orharmonic techniques certain emotional states or even symbolic ideas have beenexpressed. The Leitmotiv of Wagner or his pseudo-religious atmosphere created byshimmering strings and modal melodies are examples of such efforts. The baroqueera, also, cultivated the use of dissonance to express the emotions contained in wordssuch as "sigh" or "suffer" or "die." We today also have connotative music as the scoreof any film will demonstrate. We easily recognize the associations achieved bymilitary music, by cowboy music, by the soap-opera theme played on an electronicorgan, or the night at sea or a storm or a hundred other well-established musicaldevices that depict a scene or evoke an idea. And we have some ideas also aboutwhat we think is sacred music and what is not.For times of great religious faith we tend to say that the secular music of that agesounds like religious music, but for times of lesser faith and religious influence wetend to say that the religious music sounds secular. For example, the 16th centurymadrigals, performed withou t their texts, approach so closely to the motet w riting ofthe same period that we might think of them as sacred. But the Mozart Massesremind us of his operas, only because the operas are better known to us. Had it beena different age, we would say tha t the operas sounded like Masses and the mo tets likemadrigals.Thus, there is nothing in the music itselfeven in complicated rhythmsthat by

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Su r e ly a l l n o n - L a t in t ex t s we r e ex c lu d ed f r o m Ro m an Ca th o l i c l i t u r g i ca l u se u n t i l t h eSeco n d Va t i can Co u n c i l . T h e o r a to r io , t h e r e l i g o u s o p e r a , laudi, a n d s p i r i t u a l m a d r i -g a l s , f o r ex am p le , we r e i n t en d ed f o r co n ce r t p e r f o r m an ce . Bu t wh a t ab o u t t h eM asse s , v e sp e r s , p a s s io n s an d sp i r i t u a l co n ce r to s , ch u r ch so n a ta s , t r i o s an d o th e rch o r a l an d in s t r u m en ta l co m p o s i t i o n s? I f t h e i r p u r p o se was to ad o r n th e l i t u r g y , t h enin moving them to the secu lar se t t ing o f the concer t ha l l a re we no t v io la t ing the i rv e r y n a t u r e , t h e v e r y p u r p o s e of t h e co m p o se r ? I s n o t d o in g th a t , t o so m e ex ten ts im i l a r t o m o v in g th e o p e r a o r t h e sy m p h o n ic p o em in to t h e ch u r ch se r v i ce? Weseem to h av e th e p r o b l em o f t h e sac r ed an d th e secu la r , b u t i n a rev e r se a r r a n g e m e n t .

Co n n e c ted c lo se ly w i t h t h e p l ace o f p e r f o r m a n ce i s t h e v e r y r ea so n f o r co m p o s in go r p e r f o r m in g sac r ed m u s ic . Hay d n wr o te f o r t h e g lo r y o f Go d , Ad majorem Deigloriam. L i tu r g i ca l m u s ic m u s t b e p e r f o r m ed f o r t h a t p u r p o se . Secu la r m u s ic ex i s t sf o r t h e g lo r y of m a n , h i s en t e r t a in m e n t , h i s ad u la t io n an d ex a l t a t i o n . T h a t i s w h y wecan ap p lau d f o r a co n ce r t , b u t ap p lau se i n ch u r ch f o r a l i t u r g i ca l p e r f o r m an ce i sto t a l l y o u t o f p l ace . T h e d i s t i n c t io n r em a in s b e tween sac r ed an d secu la r : i n co m p o s i -t i o n , i n p e r f o r m an ce , i n p u r p o se , i n t h e v e r y p l ace i n wh ich i t i s d o n e an d in t h em an n e r i n wh ich it i s r e ce iv ed . E v en in t h e m an n e r of p e r f o r m a n ce . A H ay d n M asssu n g in a co n ce r t c r o wd s a l l t h e m o v em en t s t o g e th e r i n a sh o r t h a l f - h o u r , t h e Kyrie,Gloria, Credo, Sanctus-Benedictus a n d Agnus Dei a l l f o l l o win g im m ed ia t e ly o n eacho th e r . I n a p e r f o r m a n ce w i th in t h e M ass , in t h e m a n n e r i n t en d ed b y th e co m p o se r ,t h e p a r t s a r e sep a r a t ed b y t im e an d b y o th e r m u s ic . I t i s n o t a co n ce r t p i ece , b u t anin tegra l par t o f a l i tu rg ica l ac t ion .

S t il l an o th e r a r ea i n wh ich th e d i s t i n c t io n b e twe en sac r ed an d secu la r im p in g e s o nthe music ian i s the debate today abou t the use o f sacred music in concer ts in thep u b l i c sch o o l , p a r t i c u l a r ly a r o u n d C h r i s tm a s t im e . Su r e ly i t i s t h e t ex t t h a t m o s to f t en d e t e r m in es t h e sac r ed n a tu r e o f a co m p o s i t i o n . S t i l l , ev en an o r ch es t r a o r b an dd i r ec to r h a s p r o g r am m in g p r o b lem s i f h e o r sh e co n s id e r s a m ed ley o f p i ece s t h a th av e b eco m e c lo se ly a s so c i a t ed w i th ce r t a in sac r ed t ex t s . Fu r th e r , t h e r e a r e p i ece swr i t ten no t fo r re l ig ious o r l i tu rg ica l use , bu t ra ther as a par t o f the secu lar observ-an ce o f Ch r i s tm as , f o r wh ich th e p u r p o se o f t h e co m p o se r sh o u ld d e t e r m in e th en a tu r e o f t h e p i ece ; b u t c an o n e t r u ly sep a r a t e t h e secu la r an d th e sac r ed n a tu r e o fChr is tmas? In fac t , can one rea l ly separa te the secu lar and sacred par ts o f l i f e? Ofh i s to r y ? Of m u s ic?

The answer i s , o f course , no . I t i s , in fac t , the very reason fo r the debate be tweensac r ed an d secu la r . I t h a s g o n e o n f r o m th e b eg in n in g an d w i l l co n t in u e u n t i l t h e en d .So m e t r y t o secu la r i z e o u r so c i e ty , b u t o u r h i s to r y an d cu l tu r e p o in t t h e o th e r way .O u r v e r y n a tu r e , c r ea t ed in Go d ' s im ag e a s t h e Bo o k o f Gen es i s s ay s , is b o th sp i r i t u a lan d m a te r i a l , r e l i g io u s an d wo r ld ly , s ac r ed an d secu la r . T h u s we a lway s ex p r e s s t h a tin every face t o f l i fe , and n o t leas t , i t i s sh ow n in our a r t , t ha t ex press ion o f li fe th a tDan te ca l l ed " Go d ' s g r an d ch i ld , " s in ce He m ad e u s H i s ch i ld r en an d a r t i s o u r ch i ld .

T h e m o s t t h a t we can d o i s t o r eco g n ize t h a t m u s ic can b e b o th sac r ed o r secu la r .To den y tha t fac t i s fa i lu re to cop e w i th rea l i ty . Th en w e mus t f ind mea ns to de ter -m ine wh ich i s w hic h , no t an easy tas k . O u r too ls fo r the dec is ion res t f i rs t on th etex t , if ther e is on e ; secondly , o n the purp os e o f the com pos er ; th i rd ly , on th e s ty le o fco m p o s i t i o n em p lo y ed ; f o u r th ly , o n th e p l ace i n wh ich i t i s t o b e p e r f o r m ed an d th em u s ica l f o r ce s t o b e em p lo y ed .

Fina l ly , we must never confuse the i ssue o f sacred and ar t i s t ic . Not a l l sacred musicis , by an y mea sur e , a r t i s t ic . Bec ause a p iece has a sac red tex t i t i s no t n ecess ar i lyg o o d m u s i c o r w o r t h y o f p e r f o r m a n c e . A s m u s i c i a n s w e m u s t c h o o s e o n l y t h o s eco m p o s i t i o n s t h a t a r e g o o d m u s ic . T h en we m ay p r o ceed to j u d g e i f t h ey a r e sac r edo r secu la r . As ch u r ch m u s ic i an s we m u s t t h en ch o o se th e sac r ed an d t r u ly f u l f i l l t h etwo r eq u i r em en t s r eq u es t ed b y th e Va t i can Co u n c i l : s ac r ed an d a r t i s t i c .

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Fresco. Church of St. Urban, Rome. Cecilia exhorts Valerian, who is taught and ba ptized b y Pope Urban .

PAPAL MUSICAL KNIGHTSTestimony of the benevolence of the popes toward musicians and their art is thenumber of m usicians over the centuries honored by the popes w ith various tokens ofpapal esteem. The most im portant of these tokens of papal esteem, from a Christianperspective, is the hono r of knighthoo d. Following a short precis of the history andsignificance of this honor, this article will survey several musicians who have overthe centuries received the knight's cross at the pope's hands.The Christian view of knighthood is rooted in the Christian doctrine of man.Man, as the Second Council of the Vatican reminds us in its pastoral constitution,Gaudium et spes, is created in the image of God . As the creation and very image ofGoodness personified, man m ust perforce be good . Of course, man did not remain inthat primeval state described by the psalmist as "little less than God" (Ps. 8:5).Through sin, he "upset the relationship which should link him to his last end" and atthe same time broke "the right order that should reign within himself as well asbetween himself and other men and all creatures."But man was not left hopeless. Christ, the Son of the eternal Father, was pleased toredeem him by taking on human flesh. Moreover, Christ was pleased to carry on thework of salvation after His resurrection and ascension through created instrum ents.He left to the-world the sacraments and the Church. Water, bread, wine, the confes-sion of a contrite human heart, the laying on of human hands, the anointing withoil, and the free exchange of consents of human wills became the stuff out of whichdivine grace issued. His Church He left as "a visible organization to communicatetruth and grace to all men." PAPAL KNIGHTS

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Equipped with this Christian vision of man, one can eschew Manicheanism andsee the value of human activity. Man, of course, is a composite of body and soul.Man's very dignity requires tha t "he should glorify God in his body." But besides hisbody man is endowed with a mind by which to "rule over creation and subdue it."Thus bo th the physical and mental activity of the composite body-soul creature, forthe Christian, have religious value. As the council said of man, "when he works, no tonly does he transform matter and society but he fulfills himself."Not only does manby work fulfill himself, however. As Pope Paul VI said in Octogesima adveniens in1971: "God w ho ha s endowed man with intelligence, imagination and sensitivity, hasalso given him the means of completing His work."1Though recent in formulation, this appreciation for the value of human activitywas not unknow n in the Church before the appearance of the council's constitutionon the Church in the modern world. The Church in the middle ages had a similarappreciation. It was this appreciation, in fact, that enabled her to transform thesecular institution of knighthood into a religious institute in the service of Christen-dom a nd the Christian Chu rch. This transformation was one of the protean develop-ments that accompanied the Gregorian reforms of the eleventh century.

During most of her first millenium, the Church used the word militare (soldiering)and its cognates militia (soldiery) and miles (soldier) in a restricted and spiritualsense meaning to struggle with evil. With Cassian the word became a synonym forthe monastic life, the life of those brave souls who sallied forth into deserted places togive combat to evil and seek a "white martyrdom" after the peace of Constantine.Other Christian writers, however, continued to use the word in the more generalspiritual sense to denote the pilgrimage which life on earth is for the Christian. TheRule of Saint Benedict brought a further development by using the word to denotethe service in obedience of the monk. Monks united under obedience to their abbotwere said to serve in the militia Christi (and thus combat evil) by subjecting theirindividual wills to the will of another. In short in the Rule obedience made the monka soldier or miles.This primitive Christian view endured through most of the Church's first mille-nium. But even by the tenth century there were signs of a shift. The Romano-Germanpontifical of the tenth century contains a blessing for the arms of soldiers. In thatblessing the Church prayed that those military weapons "might be a defense andprotection of churches, widows, orpha ns, and all servants of God against the savage-ness of pagans."The idea of weapons in the defense of Christendom fructified in the Gregorianreform period of the next century. The Gregorian reformers took their text fromSaint Paul's notion of a "variety of gifts" (I Cor. 12: 4-11) and this informed theirview of man and Christian society. They saw in the human activity of the variousorders of society the harm onious service of Christ. In other w ords it was no longer

necessary to join a monastery (or found one) to become part of the militia Christi.Human activity when joined with right conduct and right intention were now moreclearly seen as the road to salvation. The upshot of this new vision of man and ofsociety was to vault the knight into a lofty place among Christians. Knighthoodceased to be merely a secular occupation. Indeed, besides kingship, it was to be theonly secular, lay vocation for which the C hurch would provide a liturgical ceremonyfor its initiation. Not surprisingly that liturgical ceremony found its way into thePontificale in the eleventh century and remained there until our own time.The primitive notion of miles as monk was not, however, entirely eclipsed. In thecrucible of the poverty movement of the eleventh and twelfth centuries (whichcrystalized into Cistercians, Franciscans, Dominicans), the old notion was trans-PAPAL KNIGHTS formed. The result was a new religious institute, in fact a new species of religious

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institute, which would have been unthinkable centuries beforethe military reli-gious order. This new kind of religious, who was knight as well as monk, made itsappearance shortly after the first crusade. Its great propagator was Saint Bernard ofClairvaux. His tract, De laude novae militiae, sounded the clarion call which pro-duced a stampede of vocations to the new religious institute. Saint Bernard's militaryreligious provided a competing vision to that of the secular Christian knight of theGregorian reformers. Nevertheless, though rooted in distinct traditions, their historyis not easily separated. In practice, each vision influenced the other.2 Hence, it ishelpful to sketch briefly the history of the military religious orders.

The first military religious order was the Order of the Temple of Jerusalem, namedafter its first permanent home in a wing of the Latin king's palace near Solomon'stemple. The order began quite humbly in 1118 as a confraternity of knights orga-nized to protect pilgrims from bandits along the pilgrimage route from Jaffa toJerusalem. But after Saint Bernard's tract, they adopted a version of the Cistercianrule and became an overnight success. In the two centuries of their existence beforethe greed of Philip the Fair procured their suppression in 1312 as a canonical reli-gious order, they recruited some 20,000 members and were one of the largest andwealthiest multi-national corporations in Europe.Their example was soon followed by the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, previ-ously organized as an order of nursing brothers. Joining the military to its erstwhilehospitaller apostolate, the Knights of Saint John became as successful as the Tem-plars. They were also more enduring. They remain today a lay, religious order in theCatholic Church with some 13,000 professed religious (otherwise called knights ofjustice) headed by a grand master who, like a cardinal, enjoys the title "eminence."Associated with them are some 8,000 knights of obedience, honor and grace (secularlay people) whose resources support the manifold caritative works of the order. In asense, the order, usually called the Order of Malta, is the Roman Catholic RedCross.The third military religious order was purely English and had origins similar tothose of the Knights of Saint John. A n English priest assembled some colleagues andundertook to nurse the sick and wounded English crusaders fighting under Richardthe Lion-Hearted at Acre. After the fall of Acre, Richard built a chapel for them andfounded a hospital and nursing brotherhood under the Templar rule, dedicated toSaint Thomas of Canterbury. Like the Templars, they wore a white mantle ensignedwith a red cross but differenced with a white shell. Their headquarters was thehospital of Saint Thom as Aeon in London and they survived until the reformation.The next military religious order was the Teutonic Order or more exactly, theOrder of Saint Mary the German. It began like the Knights of Saint Thomas as ahospitaller order, staffed in this case by Germans. Patterned also on the Templars,they wore a white mantle ensigned with a black cross. After the loss of the HolyLand in 1291, they centered their apostolate in the Baltic region and became rulers ofvast lands therethe region which until World War II was called East Prussia. Theysurvived the reformation but fell victim to President Wilson after the First WorldWar because of their long-standing connections with the Habsburgs. To save theirproperties from Allied confiscation, Pope Pius XI in 1929 transformed the order intoan order of mendicant priests, which still exists today.The last of the military religious orders was the Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusa-lem. It seems to have grown out of a leper hospital for knights of the other orders.During the thirteenth century it was regularly contributing a small contingent to theLatin forces in the H oly Land . After the fall of the Latin kingdom in 1291, it retreatedto Europe and there opened leprosaria in France, Italy and England. Its headquartersbecame Boigny, given it by King Louis VII of France. During the Great Schism it PAPAL KNIGHTS15


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effectively dissolved into autonomous French, Italian and English branches. TheEnglish branch was suppressed at the reformation ; the French branch was secularizedshortly before the French revolution; and the Italian branch was secularized shortlyafter the revolution, having been joined with the Savoyard royal order of SaintMaurice.Some older authors would also add to the list of military religious orders foundedin the Holy Land the Sacra ordo militaris crucigerorum cu m Stella rubea. Foundedabout 1217 in Prague by the Blessed Princess Agnes of Bohemia as an order ofnursing brothers, in the baroque period some creative history transformed it into amilitary religious order with considerable privileges. Its grand master acquired thenthe right to pontifical vestments and the abbatial blessing and its members obtainedthe use of the rochet (the episcopal surplice). It survives today as a clerical religiousorder (in fact, the only Czech religious order) with some thirty members.3The military religious were always a model for their secular comrades. Neverthe-less, the image of the secular Christian knight retained the autonomy gained for it bythe Gregorian reformers and it remained firmly rooted in the hierarchical society ofthe day. Christian knighthood was exhalted in fact by medieval theologians as a"sacrament." Baptism was a sine qua non for kn ighthood. It was noted by the middleages that however chivalrous he might be, Saladin, as a muslim, lacked a constitu-tive element needed to become a knight. In fact, knighthood was seen as a solemnreaffirmation of the baptismal vowsmuch like religious profession. Like the reli-gious, the Christian knight was at the service of the Church. Not without reason wasit said ub i ecclesia, ibi miles.Knighthood and priesthood in fact were seen as coordinate institutes of Christiansociety. For this reason the liturgical initiation to knighthood was made to parallelpriestly ord ination. Not surprisingly there are medieval references to being "ordaineda knight." Many medieval theologians from the time of Saint Thomas Aquinas onsaw the matter of the sacrament of holy orders in the traditio instrumentorum , thedelivery of the patten and chalice, the instruments of priestly sacrifice. By analogy,knighthood was conferred by the traditio instrumentorum, the girding on of thesword, the instrument of knightly service. A further vestiary analogy might bementioned. The priest is clothed with a stole and the knight with the m antle, both toremind the wearer of the sweet yoke of his vocation.4With the advent of the renaissance, the military religious orders collapsed. Predi-cated on a societal model of fraternal equality, living in obedience and poverty, theyquickly went into eclipse in that new age, choked in its hierarchical and nationalisticatmosphere. Moreover, in an age of rising individualism and secularity, they ap-peared as de trop as dinosaurs in an ice age. The new and successful religiousinstitutes of that age were the Society of Jesus and its copiers. The Society of Jesussucceeded by embracing the tendencies of the age. It abolished solemn vows, choirduty, the equal voice in chapter, and the requirement of community life. If themilitary religious orders were once the papal janissaries, that title now belonged tothe Jesuits. The Jesuits, in fact, contributed a whole new chapter in the history of thetaxonomy of religious institutes, giving rise to the "cleric regular."

There were attempts to adapt the military religious orders to the new age. TheOrder of Saint Stephen, established in 1560 by the grand duke of Tuscany, was onesuch attempt. Its members were knights with vows of obedience, charity and conju-gal chastity who had as their apostolate the maritime defense of Christendom.Patterned on the Order of M alta, it endured as a Tuscan shadow of that great orderuntil the unification of Italy in the nineteenth century. More hopeful was the MilitiaJesus Christi, established in 1603 by Spanish royal decree and approved two yearsPAPAL KNIGHTS later by a Domincan general chapter. Its members were to be auxiliaries of the16


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inquisit ion, then staffed largely by the Order of Preachers. Hence, members of theMilit ia could wear as an emblem the black and white cross fleury of the Dominicans.In accordance with renaissance sensibil i t ies members could be noble by their educa-tion as well as by birth. Their apostolate was the combat of heresy either by arms orby legal process or by the printed word. This new equestrian order proved short-l ived.The genius of the renaissance brought about the demise of the mili tary religiousorders . At the same time it fostered the growth of secular Christ ian knighthood. Italso began i ts transformation. Under the influence of the renaissance accent onindividual achievement , secular Christ ian knighth ood tended to become a reward fora l ife of service rather than a vocation to a l ife of service. The individualism andrespect for individual human dignity and creativity of the renaissance also gave afi l l ip to art ist ic consciousness. Artists now became distinguished from artisans andcraftsmen. Artists were now held to be practi t ioners of the l iberal or noble arts. Thestage was now set for art ists to be coopted into secular Christ ian knighthood.The popes were quick to pour the new wine of the renaissance musical art ists intothe old wineskins of Christ ian knighthood. One of the first musicians to be the

subject of papal honors was the Spanish renaissance musician, Christobal de Mo-rales (1500-1553). An exponent of the Andalusian school of Spanish music, hisdistinguished music is noted for i ts austeri ty and dramatic mysticism. MonsignorAngles has said that "aesthetically speaking" Morales, Saint Teresa of Avila andSaint John of the Cross are brothers. For ten years a singer and composer in the papalSistine chapel, in 1536 Pope Paul III created Morales count of the sacred palace andof Saint John Lateran.Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594), the dist inguished and well-known Flemish com-poser, was one of the first musicians to receive the honor of papal knighthood. Bornin Mons in 1532, he spent much of his youth in Italy becoming in 1553 maestro di

cappella at Saint John Lateran. In 1556, he joined the chapel of Duke Albrecht V ofBavaria and spent the rest of his career in the service of the Wittelsbachs in Munich.In 1574, while on a tour of Italy recruit ing musicians for the ducal chapel, PopeGregory XIII created him a knight of the Golden Spur. Lasso died in Munich twentyyears later.Another papal musical knight was Christolph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787). Bornin Germany, he studied in Italy under Sammartini . In 1756, his opera, Antigone,opened in Rome and received an enthusiastic reception. Shortly thereafter PopeBenedict XIV made him a knight of the Golden Spur. Henceforth, Gluck styledhimself, Ritter von Gluck.Also to receive papal knig htho od w as Gluck's near-contem porary, Karl Di t ters vonDittersdorf (1739-1799). Ditters' career centered in Germany rather than Italy anduntil quite recently he has been a somewhat obscure musician. Through the influence

of his patron, Count Schofgotsch, prince bishop of Breslau, he was created at knightof the Golden Spur in 1770. Three years later he received an imperial patent ofnobili ty and as a result added von Dittersdorf to his name. Violinist and compoer, hebegan the orchestra at the Stefansdom in Vienna.Perhaps the most famous papal musical knight is Mozart (1756-1791). BaptizedJohan Chrisotomos Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , he spent the early part of his musi-cal career in the service of the prince arch bish op of Salzbu rg. Wh ile on a tour of Italyintended to free the fourteen-year old wunderkind from dependency on his archepis-copal patron, Pope Clement XIV created him a knight of the Golden Spur. Thepatent, dated July 4, 1770, is worth quoting in part . It begins:Inasmuch as it behoves the beneficence of the Roman pontiff and the Apostolic See thatthose wh o have shown no small signs of faith and devo tion. . .shall be decorated with PAPAL KNIGHTS17


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the hono rs and favors of the Roman pontiff,. . .we hereby make and create theewhom we understand to have excelled since thine earliest youth in the sweetest playingof the harpsicordknight of the Golden Spur, by the apostolic authority.The paten t went on to bestow on M ozart all the hono rs and privileges of m emb ershipin that order except those abolished by the Coun cil of Trent. Since pap al knig htho odwas still conceived of as a sacramental, the reception of which required that therecipient have no obstacle in the internal or external forum, the document firstabsolved Mozart from any sentence of excommunication, suspension, and interdict,or other censures and penalties of the Church imposed a jure or ab homine fo rwhatever occasion or cause.

Another opera composer to be honored with papal knighthood was GaspareSpontini (1774-1851). Born near Naples, he composed a number of Masses in hisyouth before moving to Paris and achieving success as an opera composer to theEmpress Josephine. The bulk of his career, however, he spent in Berlin as courtmu sician to the king of Prussia . In 1838, he mad e a tour of his native land and therebecame disturbed at the decayed state of sacred music. In Rome he presented PopeGregory XVI with a number of proposals for the reform of sacred music. Theseincluded the establishment of a school of sacred music and the publication of goodchurch music by the old masters. His projects foundered but the pope was neverthe-less impressed and created him a knight of Saint Gregory.

Worthy of being counted among the papal musical knights is Frederick Pustet(1798-1882), even though he was a publisher rather than a composer or maker ofmusic. In Regensburg he founded one of the leading church music publishing housesand was largely responsible for publication of liturgical books in the early years ofthe liturgical revival. From his Regensburg printing house he pub lished the Mediceantext of the Gregorian chant which began the process of revival of the ancient musicof the Chu rch. The firm also published the jour nal of the Caecilien-Verein. Upon theappearance of the folio edition of the breviary, the delighted Pope Pius IX createdhim a knight of the Order of Pius.

Two Americans closely connected with the founding of the two journals, Caeciliaand The Catholic Choirmaster, which are the forerunners of Sacred Music, can benumbered among the circle of papal musical knights. The first, John Baptist Singen-berger (1848-1924), was born in Kirchenberg, Switzerland, and studied at the Uni-versity of Innsbruck and the church music school in Regensburg. He there cameunder the influence of the Caecilian movement which he would soon export to theUnited States. In 1873, Bishop Henni of Milwaukee appointed him to the chair ofmusic at S aint Francis Seminary, a position he held for half a century. T he sam e year,Singenberger began the American Caecilia Society and its journal Caecilia andthrough them he started the task of reforming Catholic church music in the UnitedStates. His 1875 concert performan ce of Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli in Dayton,O h i o , set the standard for the revival. In 1882, Pope Leo XIII created him a knight ofSaint Gregory. Pope Pius X in 1908 also created him a knight of Saint Sylvester. Itonly remained for Pope Pius XI in 1923 to create him a knight commander of SaintGregory, the highest papal honor that is conferred on a Catholic layman not a headof state or government.Also honored by the pope was Nicola Aloysius Montani (1880-1948). Studying inRome under the leading church music reformers in the days of Pope Pius X, he alsohad the benefit of the learning of Solesmes. His task became the implementation ofPius X's famous motu proprio on sacred music, Inter pastoralis offici. He foundedand edited The Catholic Choirmaster and in 1914 with o thers he founde d th e Society

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degree Montani's group tended to work with Irish-American Catholics, whereasSingenberger's organization operated among German-American Catholics. Exponentof a then little-known practice in the Irish-American church, viz., congregationalsinging, Montani is without question one of the deserving pioneers of the liturgicalrevival. His lasting monument will probably be the Saint Gregory Hymnal, fordecades the only church music many American C atholics knew. In 1928, Pope PiusXI created him a knight commander of Saint Sylvester. DUANE L.C.M. GALLES

NOTES1. Pastoral constitution, Gaud ium et spes, in Flannery (ed), Docum ents of Vatican II, 11, 12,14 , 15, 34, 35; Lumen gentium, 1, 6; apostolic letter, Octogesima adveniens, A.A.S. (1971).2. Christine Thouzellier, "Ecclesia militans," in Etudes d'Histroire du Droit Canon iquededies a Gabriel Le Bras. 2 vols. (1965) pp. 1408-1414; Cyrille Vogel and Reinhard Elze, LePontifical Germanique du Dixieme Siecle (1963) II, p. 379; Collin Morris, "Equestris Ordo:Chivalry as a vocation in the twelfth century," in Religious Motivation (1975) pp. 93-95; Pierrede Puniet, Le Pontifical Romain, 2 vols. (1931) II, p. 220.3. Desmond Seward, The Mon ks of War: The Military Religious Orders (1972) on whichthis account is based. On the Order of Malta see also Arthur C. Brycha-Vauthier, "The Orderof St. John in international law: A forerunner of the Red Cross," 48 American Journal ofInternational Law (1954) 556, 561. On the Red Star Crosiers see Theodore Rupprecht, NotaeHistoriae in Universorum Jus Canonicum (1764) p. 311; Willy Lorenz, Die Kreuzherren mitdem roten Stern (1964) pp. 72-74.4. Jaroslav Pelikan, The Growth of Mediaeval Theology (1978) p. 213; Leon Gauthier,Chivalry (New York, 1959) pp. 6, 15; Morris, op. cit., 88; Walter B. Clancy, The Rites andCeremonies of Sacred Ordination (1962) pp. 35, 38. Only in 1947 did Pius XII define theessential matter of priests orders as the (first) imposition of hands, not the traditio instrumen-torum. Ibid., p. 56. It should be recalled that the number of sacraments was not determined tobe seven until Peter Lombard's Sentences, ca. 1145, and not dogmatically defined as such untilTrent. Enchiridion.5. Rudolph Wittkower, Sculpture Processes and Principles (1977) p. 79. Francis Haskell,Patrons and Painters (1980) p. 117 dates the practice of giving titles to artists to the sixteenthcentury and adds that it is "directly related to the new awareness of their social value." Henotes as early creations that the Emperor Frederick III made Gentile Bellini a count palatineand that the Emperor Charles V in 1533 created Titian a Lateran count.6. New Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians; Otto Erich Deutsch, Mozart, a Docu-mentary Biography (1965) p. 123; The Catholic Choirmaster, 27 (1941) 101-104, 34 1948) 6-8.The Order of the Golden Spur was established in 1539 by Pope Paul III. Gregory XVI in 1841merged the decayed order into his new O rder of Saint Sylvester. In 1905 Pope Pius X separatedthe two orders, making that of Saint Sylvester the lowest ranking papal order. The Order ofPius was founded by Pope P ius IV in 1559 and w as reestablished in 1847 by Pius IX. Until 1939bestowal of the Order of Pius conferred personal nobility; it seems never to have been con-ferred on a U.S.A. citizen. The Order of Saint Gregory was established in 1831 by PopeGregory XVI to honor Austrians and subjects of the Papal States who helped suppress therevolution of 1830. James Van der Veldt, The Ecclesiastical Orders of Knighthood (1956) pp.49-52.

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REVIEWSOrganA Christmas Album. H. W. Gray Publications. 128pp. $12.50.

With the abundance of Christmas music available,it is surprising how few good collections actually ex-ist. This is one of them. This album contains twenty-eight pieces which include the m ost popular carols inwell-written, innovative settings. The works vary inlength and difficulty, although all require solid organtechnique. The book is spiral-bound, which is enor-mously helpful for an album of this size, and registra-tion, expression, dynamic markings, and some fin-gerings are provided in the score. This is anoutstanding collection, deserving of consideration byanyone in search of good Christmas arrangements.MARY GORMLEYBasic Organ Techniques and Repertoire by J. J. Keelerand E. Donnell Blockman. Universe Publishers(Theo. Presser Co., agents). Paper, $10.95.This book is a comprehensive guide to the study oforgan performance. It would be extremely valuableto both organ teachers and students. The book isdivided into three sections: 1) basic pedal and man-ual exercises; 2) a written description of the instru-ment, registration, and methods of performance; and3) sixty pages of short, baroque organ pieces. It has,in addition, an excellent bibliography on organ m usicsuitable for study, technical exercises, texts on organregistration, and materials for organ improvisation.The exhaustive approach taken by the authors per-mits use of this book as a reference tool, teachingsource, and performing edition.

MARY GORMLEY1) What God Ordains is always Good. 2) Lord JesusChrist, Thou Prince of Peace. 3) O Quench Us withThy Goodness by J. S. Bach, arr. by Hal H. Hopson.H. W. Gray Publications. Published separately, $2.50ea.

All three arrangements place the chorale melody inthe pedal under two-part counterpoint in the man-uals. These settings are easy to read and to perform.They represent valuable additions to church musicrepertoire, particularly for the Sundays associatedwith the respective chorales. MARY GORMLEYThe Organ Music of Alexandre Guilmant. VolumesI-VI, edited by Wayne Leupold. McAfee Music Publi-cations. Paper, $14.95 for first four volumes; $19.95for the last two.These six volumes represent the complete works ofGuilmant. In addition to the music, each volume

contains an extensive preface which addresses thechronology of Guilmant's life, his biography, thespecifications of organs on which he performed, anessay on organ playing written by Guilmant, and anessay on Guilmant's contribution to organ music.Volumes I-IV contain pieces in various styles. Al-though different, they nevertheless all require a sub-stantial degree of technical skill. Basically, they be-long in the concert repertoire.Volume V is titled The Practical Organist, and itcontains shorter, somewhat easier pieces in differentstyles which would function well as service music.Volume VI, The Liturgical Organist, contains a di-verse selection of pieces which vary in length anddifficulty. Many of them are based on Gregorianchant. Volume VI also has numerous hymn varia-tions, "Amens," and interludes.In all volumes, the scores contain extensive edito-rial markings and registrations. The publication ofthis set of complete works should prom ote the app re-ciation and recognition of Guilmant as a composer,whose accomplishments as a recitalist and teacherhave already been widely acknowledged.MARY GORMLEYChristmas Music, compiled by John Holler. H. W.Gray Publications. 71 pages. $7.95.The contents of this collection had been formerlyissued in the two-volume edition of the St. CeciliaSeries of Christmas music. This new edition containssixteen pieces of moderate length and difficulty. Withthe exception of Brahms' Lo , How a Rose 'ere Bloom-ing and J. S. Bach's In d ulci jubilo, these works arelargely unfamiliar. All, however, reflect the Christ-mas spirit, and many are pastoral in nature. Thescore is heavily edited with extensive registrationmarkings. Organists searching for unusual Christ-mas music should find this album interesting andworthwhile. MARY GORMLEYBrass EnsembleEight Fan fares for B rass Ensemble by Arthur Bliss.Trumpets, trombones, timpani, drums and bells.Novello (Theo. Presser, agents). $13.00.These eight, very useful fanfares are scored for avariety of combinations, with as little as two trum-pets and as many as four trumpets and four trom-bones, timpani, side drum, cymbal and bells. Also,they include short and longer pieces, one of whichintroduces the anthem we know as "My Country Ti sof Thee." With a greater use of brass within liturgicalceremonies, these pieces can find a valuable place inthe repertory. They have no particular problems ofperformance and can be played by an ensemble ofreasonable proficiency. R.J.S.

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Christmas Carols for Brass Quintet ar. by RichardPrice. 2 trumpets, horn, trombone and tu ba. M erionMusic, Inc. (Theo. Presser, agents). $18.00.This collection has nine well-known carols set intraditional harmony with imaginative and interestingarrangement. The carols include: "We Wish You aMerry Christmas," "Angels We Have Heard on High,""We Three Kings," "I Saw Three Ships," "Carol of theBells," "What Child is This?" "O Come, O ComeEmmanuel," "The Holly and the Ivy," and "SilentNight." These can be useful n ot only as solo ensembleperformances, but they might be incorporated intothe accompaniment of congregational carol singing.Of cou rse, as in the use of any brass ensemble music,the performers must be capable of a good rendition.A poor performance is better omitted.

R.J.S./. S. Bach, Three Chorales from the St. John Pas-sion ar. by Arthur Bliss. 3 trumpets, 3 trombones andoptional tuba. Novello (Theo. Presser, agents).$11.00.Originally performed as tower music at the Wor-cester cathedral in England, these are most useful forany festival occasion, including processions orga-nized within the church and also outside. They aregood for interludes, preludes or postludes for Mass,especially on festive occasions. R.J.S.ChoralAlleluia-Magnificat by Heinrich Isaac, ed. by JamesD. Feiszli. SATB. The Motet Press, P.O. Box 5570,Athens, Ohio 45701. $.50.This was composed for the feast of the Visitationand comes from Book II of the Choralis Constantinusof the famous sixteenth century contrapuntalist. Theeditor points out that the motet may be performedwith instrumental doubling of the parts or a cap-pella. A keyboard reduction is given for rehearsals.The text can be used on any feast of the BlessedVirgin.Eight Carols for Christmas by Sydney Hodkinson.SATB, keyboard. Merion Music Co. (Theo. Presser,agents). Published separately, c. $.75.While the texts are traditional the settings are in acontemporary style. The texts include: "Come all youFaithful Christians," "Now every Child that dwells onEarth," "Lully, lulla," "On Christmas Night," "If Yewould hear," "Christ, Saviour of the World to Come,""While Shepherds Watched," "Sweet was the Song."The instrumental parts are independent of the voicesand may include the use of bells. These will fill aneed for those interested in new music for Christm as.Christmas, a Carol Cantata by Janice Kapp Perryand Joy Saunders Lundberg. SATB, soloists and two

readers, keyboard. Universe Publishers (Theo.Presser, agents). $2.95.Six carols form the main part of this twenty-fiveminute work, together with selections assigned toreaders. The choral writing is traditional and easy,and the soloists parts are not demanding. It may be auseful piece for high school Christmas concert per-formance.A Song of St. Francis by Michael Hurd. SSA, a cap-pella. Novello (Theo. Presser, agents). $.95.A contemporary setting of the old prayer of St.Francis, this piece for three treble voices has interest-ing choral sounds. It demands a good ensemble thatdoes not have pitch problems. There is an alto soloagainst a hummed part for the choir.My God and King by Joseph Roff. Thomas HousePublications, P.O. Box 6023, Concord, California94524. SATB, organ. $.80.A good piece for the feast of Christ the King or forany other festival, this composition ends with a tri-umphal fortissimo. The text is from the seventeenthcentury. The choral writing is traditional, using poly-phonic as well as hom ophonic devices. It is not diffi-cult and could be very appealing to the choir and thecongregation both. R.J.S.MagazinesSINGENDE KIRCHE. Volume 31, No. 2, 1984.Quarterly of the C hurch Music C ommission of theAustrian Bishops.It is rare in the history of these reviews of SingendeKirche which have appeared in Sacred Music that wehave taken issue with the po ints made in the A ustrianchurch music journal. However, in the second num-ber of the thirty-first volume, Rudolf Pacik (whoseems to be a new contributor) has an article whichquestions the usefulness of the division of the Massmusically into the ordinary and proper parts. Hismajor thesis is that in the new, reformed liturgy, it isuseless to divide texts simply by w hether they changeor not. Texts must be judged on their structure andfunction. Although the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanc-tus and Agnus Dei all remain the same from Sundayto Sunday, they function in completely different waysand are part of totally different liturgical structures.The Kyrie is part of the penitential rite. The Credo isthe people's response to the proclaimed word of God.The structure and function of these liturgical textsshould determine their musical setting. Further, ineach of the liturgical structures of the Mass, e.g., theentrance rite, the penitential rite, the preparation ofthe g ifts, etc., the changeable texts (the old "proper")should be integrated w ith the unchangeable texts (the

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old "ordinary") so that these structures are clearlydelineated. Of course, as Pacik readily admits, thisdivision means the end of the "high Mass" in theusual sense. It also means that the classics of Aus-trian church music, e.g., the settings of the ordinaryby Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert, are nolonger appropriate within the new liturgy. Pacik willallow portions of Haydn and Mozart to be sung, buthe would hold that it is impossible to sing the entireordinary and still preserve the structures of the re-formed liturgy.

There is no doubt that Pacik makes some validpoints. The worship of the Church does not exist toserve music. Rather, church music should always beat the service of the liturgy. It is, in fact, an integralpart of the liturgy. Thus, music must adapt itself tothe reforms of the Church. Further, it is true that thedivision by changeable and unchangeable texts is notthe only possible division of the liturgy, althoughfrom the very practical point of view, it is a usefulfact for the choirmaster to know if he might use thepiece often or only once a year. Still, it is certainlyquestionable whether or not the reforms of the sa-cred liturgy were intended to be as far-reaching asPacik believes. In the notes to his article, one doesnot see the constitution on the sacred liturgy quoted.In that document, the fathers of the council askedthat the treasury of sacred music be preserved. Theydid not mean that this treasure should be preservedin archives. Music is preserved when it is sung andplayed. Clearly, the bishops asked that the classics ofchurch music is used in church.Secondly, Pacik asks that musicians write and singnew music for the reformed liturgy. No one wouldargue against this challenge. But if the liturgists willnot permit the art music of the past to be sung, howdo they expect new composers to be inspired to writenew music? We all stand on the shoulders of pastgenerations. Few would want to try to re-invent thewheel. New music will grow from the old, if it issung! It is disconcerting to see the somewhat extremeviews of liturgists reflected in the Austrian churchmusic magaz ine. In the past, it was always a defenderof the treasure of sacred music.

Peter Planyavsky has an interesting contribution tothis issue. His thesis is that the current debate be-tween "classical" church music and "pop" music sungin church should be placed in an historical context.Planyavsky suggests that similar struggles have goneon in the past and that what we are experiencingtoday is the fruit of a long development. In fact, thependulum of church music may have in our timereached one extreme. Herbert Vogg has a most inter-esting article on the preparation of music for pu blica-tion. Among other things he notes (no pun intended)that the advanced technology of the computer agehas yet to solve the problem of making all the notes

and musical signs found in a composition. Most ofthe music is still hand-w ritten an d then photog raphedfor printing. It is amazing that music still must behand-writ ten! R . M . H .SINGENDE KIRCHE. Volume 31, No. 3 , 1984.Quaterly o f the Church Music Com mission of theAustrian Bishops.In this issue, Peter Planyavsky co ncludes his articleon the use of "pop" music in the sacred liturgy. Fer-dinand Haberl contributes an essay on Pius XII andchurch music. Among many other things, Haberllists all the documents, some thirty-two of them,which Pius XII issued in regard to liturgy or churchmusic. Of course, the ones of crucial importance arehis encyclicals on the liturgy, Mediator Dei and Musi-cae sacrae disciplina. Dr. Wolfgang Guhswald has anarticle on the restoration of the largest pipe organ inthe world, the organ in the cathedral in Passau, Ger-many.

Worthy of some notice is the response to HerbertVogg's article in the last issue on the preparation ofmusic for publication. A publisher from Frankfurt,West Germany, takes exception to Vogg's contentionthat there are no machines which can reproducenotes. There is a machine called the music-writerwhich is available in the United States and in Europe.It is not simply a re-worked typewriter, but a ma-chine designed exclusively to reproduce music on pa-per. Of course, with such a machine in place, it willnot be long before someone discovers a way to adaptthe computer to reproducing music and maybe evenfor composing music. (Cf. Sacred Music, Vol. 112,N o . 1, in which examples of Gregorian chant pro-duced on computer were printed. Ed.)

The Austrians have the custom of noting impor-tant birthdays. Usually Sacred Music has not re-ported these articles in Singende Kirche because mostAmericans do not know the people wh o are honored.However, in this issue, there is an article commemo-rating the 90th birthday of Monsignor Franz Koschof Vienna who has been active in church music cir-cles for many years. He was general chairman of theSecond International Church Music Congress held inVienna in 1954, and many will remember him fromthe Fifth International Church Music Congress inChicago-Milwaukee in 1966. We surely wish Monsi-gnor Kosch ad multos annos!

R.M .H.UNA VOCE (France). Number 121, March-April1985.An article on the Church in Holland is especiallypertinent because of the rude and shocking receptiongiven the Holy Father there recently. In assessing thesituation, Professor J. P. M. van de Ploeg, O.P. as-serts that while the Churc h in Holland is not dea d, its

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condition is so bad that for most Catholics true faithprobably no longer exists and that it is unlikely thatcurrent trends can be stopped. The bishop of Roer-mond is having some success in trying to re-establishthe Ca tholic faith, but he is vilified in the media andby those who call themselves Catholics. The authorbelieves that the steady mutation going on is similarto what happened in the so-called reformation of thesixteenth century, the difference being that then theChurch m ade it clear that those who had denied theirfaith were no longer Catho lics. Currently no one asksthe question in such a clear way and it seems possibleto be Catholic on one's own terms. The aberrations inthe Dutch Church as detailed in this article are adiabolical litany of horrors. According to the authorthe only response for a good Catholic is to do hisduty to the best of his ability, remembering that theearly Christians also lived in a hostile world.

A report is made on the Tridentine Masses thathave been celebrated in France since the Holy Father'saction m ade them possible with special permission ofthe ordinary. Although the number is not great andthe bureaucracy is frustrating, there has been asteady stream of traditional Masses that have at-tracted hugh crowds in spirte of the ban on all public-ity. The situation in other countries is also reported.It ranges from Ottawa in Canada, where the arch-bishop loaned $60,000 to match what was raised bythe Latin Congregation of Ottawa to buy a churchfor the celebration of the Tridentine Mass, to Bolo-gna, Italy, where the bishop will only allow the Tri-dentine M ass on Saturdays because the celebration ofMass for special groups is not allowed on Sundays.V.A.S.CAECILIA. Numbers 3-4. March-April 1985.Lovers of the pipe organ and Francophiles will beespecially interested in the list of restored new organsin Alsace. They include: a) a Stiehr organ in the townof Willgottheim built in 1835 and restored in 1984 (Ithad been invaded by cobwebs, oily dust and thepipes had been eaten away by worms.); b) an organbuilt by Claude Ignace Callinet in 1844 in Wolxheimwhose first stage of restoration was finished in 1984;c) a new organ by Steinmetz placed in a 1790 organcase in Valff; d) in Vendenheim an organ built byWegmann in the early nineteenth century and newlyrestored by Gaston Kern; e) a newly restored 1851Stiehr organ in Bernardville; f) a new organ for thechapel of the major seminary in, Strasbourg. Frommy limited observation I would conclude that thetradition of the pipe organ is alive and well in Alsace,at least by comparison to what is happening in theUnited States. Most of this issue is devoted to theusual features of sample music, suggestions for theliturgy of seasonal feasts and reviews.

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NOVA REVISTA DE MUSICA SACRA. Vol. 11, Se-ries 2, No. 32, 1984. Trimester periodical of th e Sa-cred Music Commission of Braga, Portugal.In an article on the penitential acts at the beginningof Mass, Sebastiao Faria discusses the various op-tions given in the missal and the place of music in thewords of the celebrant, the congregation and thechoir. The singing of the Kyrie and the Gloria inrelation to the penitential rite is discussed from apractical viewpoint. The issue is made up substan-tially of examples of music, mostly in Portugese butalso some Latin pieces, intended both for choir useand for congregation. All of it is in a traditional id-iom. R.J.S.JUBILUS REVIEW. Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 1985.With the beginning of its second year of publica-tion, Jubilus has an interesting variety of articles. Dr.Thaddeus Chao writes about his membership in aparish choir, and F. T. Magennis and T. Rafferty,both divinity students at Maynooth, tell how theyhave encouraged congregational singing in a practicaldescription of their experimentation in an Irish par-ish church. A . R. Bevin gives an account of the situa-tion of church music in England, and HaroldHughesdon writes about vespers in a parish church.The editor has published the Gregorian chantsneeded by the celebrant for a Latin Mass celebratedwith full musical embellishment, the notation com-ing from the Solesmes edition of the Ordo Missae inCantu. Dom Jean Claire, O.S.B., of Solesmes tellsabout his associations with Dom Joseph Gajard, thefamous choirmaster at Solesmes. Book reviews andnews items conclude the issue.

R.J.S.BooksNorth Italian Church Music in the Age of Monteverdiby Jerome Roche. New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 1984. 178 pp. $42.00The period covered in this volume is one much likethe present age. It studies the troubled times follow-ing the Council of Trent, when experimentation inchurch music was prevalent and the new monodywas introducing the solo motet, and at the same timethe poly-choral compositions of the colossal baroquewere still very much in style. The counter-reformation was underway leading to the great devel-opments that had their roots in the conciliar reforms.In many ways the "age of Monteverdi" reflects thepicture today and gives hope that out of present con-fusion a new artistic church mus

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