[Magdalen] St. Thomas Fifth Avenue Chooses.

[Jim Guthrie]

Sorry for the old messages from my Thunderbird Account.

i still haven't figured out how to fix this, either.

But I'm still working on it.

Jim


On 2/10/2016 4:56 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>
> In a message dated 2/10/2016 2:35:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> nyswrrcoalco at pipeline.com writes:
>
> Just  because modernists substitute boys for castrati  doesn't mean it's
> appropriate in modern worship conducted in a language understood by the
> people.>>>>>>>>
>   
> It's a little dizzying, Jim, that sometimes you sound like a Presbyterian
> and
> at others a contemporary Roman Catholic.
>   
> In the latter instance, the official policy of the RCC is to favor  the
> "purity"
> of unaccompanied polyphony and the plainsong Proper, both  in Latin.
> After decades of contemporary schlock in English, it strikes me that
> they are once again returning to the Latin.  Certainly if the  most
> influential church music program in the USA (National Shrine,  Washington,
> DC) for Roman Catholics is any indication, that is the case.  There  are,
> incidentally, Latin Ordinaries used at most televised Masses from  that
> location.  So much for language understood by the people.
>   
> I would be interested in knowing the evidence that Latin  polyphony
> died away entirely in the Anglican Communion before it's obvious
> revival in the past 75 years or so.
>   
> I feel it is perfectly appropriate for Anglicans to utilize
> choral music in a foreign tongue which means not just Latin, but
> also such as French, German and Spanish.  That is, provided  there
> are translations available in the worship leaflets.
>   
>   
>   
> David Strang.......Just wondering how the people (and me) are to
> understand the Holy Mysteries, anyway.  Is it easier to  understand
> the Canon in English than in Latin?
>