After a concert of 16th- and 17th-century music recently, the pope said he would prefer to hear Gregorian chant ... music to Catholic churches. Just as the Latin Mass almost immediately ...

McDonnell, director of the Institute of Sacred Music at The Catholic University of America in Washington. Gregorian chant was standard in the Mass in the 1950s, but fell out of favor after the ...

Shawn McKnight listed a dozen commonly used but “doctrinally problematic” Catholic songs ... Mass” — the antiphons, psalms, and alleluias specific to each liturgical day, often sung in ...

An important component of Schuler’s approach to church music were Gregorian ... as Vatican II, the Catholic church made sweeping reforms, including permitting parts of Mass to be conducted ...

It would probably come as a shock to many people today, but Gregorian ... various forms of music that have developed from them. This centrality of the official music of the Catholic Church forms ...

Gregorian chant rose to prominence in the Catholic ... Mass has also provided a liturgical context for the new Gregorian chanters. Grove speaks about the importance of preserving this sacred music ...

The appeal of Gregorian chant is undeniable. During a service, it adheres itself to the mass — moving with ... a desire to create more authentic Catholic music, but also to flee “the drivel ...