[Magdalen] Prayers ANSWERED: missing, beloved dog is found!

Scott Knitter scottknitter at gmail.com
Fri Feb 19 16:11:07 UTC 2016


On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
<magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> I agree with you.  Anglican chant is descended from plainchant.
> That is not to say there isn't a place in the Anglican Communion for
> plainchant, as well.  So where Anglican chant is well  established
> and done well, I see little accomplished by jettisoning it in favor  of
> plainchant.

Surely plainchant has been kept going in Anglican religious
communities and in parishes where small numbers of people sing the
psalms of the Daily Office and don't have the resources for four-part
Anglican chant with organ? Not out of a desire for "authenticity," but
because it's simply do-able.


-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA


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