NOTE: The following is taken from our latest newsletter. If you are not already subscribed to our FREE weekly newsletter, please sign up here.Ever since the publication of Traditionis Custodes, discussions, debates and outright arguments have erupted over the two forms of the Latin Rite of the Mass: The Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) and the Novus Ordo Missae (NOM). Compounding the issue, articles are now being published suggesting that the TLM should be done away with altogether.On … [Read more...]
The sacred and the profane
Classical music is sometimes divided in two large groups: the sacred and the profane. One example of musica sacra could be Bach’s Jesus Joy of Man’s Desire, or Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis. On the other hand, Bizet’s Carmen or Verdi’s La Traviata are examples of profane, entertainment music. In the centuries before the Second Vatican Council, the music played during Mass was always musica sacra. Everyone respected that division. In fact the part covers would identify the composition as da chiesa … [Read more...]
