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MARCH 2012 MARCH 42/1 ... you continue to make all these good things, O Lord, you sanctify them, fill them with life, bless them, and bestow them upon us. EUCHARISTIC PRAYER I Certainly a note can be placed beside the To fulfil the true meaning of the entry in the baptismal register sacrament, children must later be recognising that someone formally formed in the faith in which they have COMPOSER AND PERFORMER: wishes to set aside their baptism and its been baptised, says the introduction to implications. The Code of Canon Law the rite. The foundation of this once made reference to a formal act of formation will be the sacrament itself, defection from the Church but several of What the which they have already received. these phrases were removed by Pope Christian formation, which is their Benedict in 1999 leaving only mention in due, seeks to lead them gradually to ART OF MUSIC DE-BAPTISM? several places of ‘notoriously’ or learn God’s plan in Christ, so that they ‘publically’ abandoning the faith. The may ultimately accept for themselves might teach us concerning the ou can download a ‘De-Baptism Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts in the faith in which they have been YCertificate’ from the internet. I 2006 had defined such a formal act of baptised (RB 3). ART OF THE HOMILY suppose you’d fill in the details and sign defection as an internal decision to leave the Catholic Church, realised and The Church believes that its most basic it and ... what? Frame it, perhaps, and and necessary duty is to inspire all to send a copy to the church where you manifested in an external way, and that true and living faith by which they were baptised. Or make it public to your received by the competent ecclesiastical hold fast to Christ and enter into or by Ralph Morton Improvising is making the music up on the spot. It is facebook friends. It seems there is quite authority. Such an act is more than the composition, but it is ‘immediate composition’. This confirm their commitment to the New a demand for this service, though often removal of one’s name from a govern- sounds like total freedom, but it is certainly not. There is a Covenant (CI 3). enough it is probably a bit of a joke. ment registry of church membership. Would you like some feedback on your homily? Just ask discipline to improvisation. One is governed by certain Faith however is a free response to the the “muso”. Church musicians who play or sing every given musical themes and one’s task is to subject the The wording on the certificates varies. Overall, however, I admit that I think the grace of God. A response given freely Sunday (and sometimes at multiple Masses) can be experts themes to musical processes which will produce a viable Some are more strident than others. de-baptism certificate is an intriguing at judging homilies, if only because they hear so many. I work. Improvisations are often simpler works than notated may also be freely withdrawn. The Generally they will announce that the idea. I do not like it that people are estimate that during my lifetime I have heard in excess of works – there is a limit to the intricacy of design that an choice of de-baptism which some may person, having been subjected to the rite rejecting their baptism; I am sorry, not 8,500 – the good, the bad, and (unfortunately) the ugly. improviser can produce while thinking on his feet, and yet make challenges us to realise the This essay however is not concerned with what musicians they need to be structured. However improvisations may of baptism before the age of consent, for institutional reasons, but rather that affirmation that baptism demands. might tell us about homilies, but what the art of music have a greater sense of spontaneity and relevance since now after due consideration, revokes any they have not found the Gospel of Christ Being with the parish community for might tell us about constructing and delivering a homily. they are created in real time. One can’t practise an implications of the rite and renounces life-giving and salutary. But at least Sunday Mass is a baptismal choice. Composing improvisation, but one can practise the process of the church that carried it out. Some signing a public de-baptism certificate improvisation, and to be a good improviser, one needs Taking part in the ministry of the reject aspects of the faith, some repudiate says that the person has taken a stand. The music that you hear in (say) a piano Classical recital is plenty of practice! The improvisation student spends years Church and living a Gospel life all week the result of two activities: composing (creating/writing) any culpability associated with the Though we are mostly baptised before practising how to do the fundamentals of music on the spot is a baptismal choice. Renewing our and performing (‘doing’/actualising). We are used to the Church and its history, and most are we know it, that is not the end of the - developing themes, modulating from one key to all other baptismal promises each year at Easter model in music where composing and performing are two keys, working on accompaniment styles or contrapuntal keen that their baptism is not counted in matter. Throughout our life, decade as we celebrate the death and separate activities, in fact, not only separate activities, but techniques. statistics of church membership. after decade, we continually redefine our separate in person, place and historical time. Beethoven attitude to what has been done for us. resurrection of Christ is an annual composes a piano sonata in Vienna in 1809 and Horowitz By now the reader has probably related these two An allied action is possible in countries Where do we stand in relation to our opportunity for us to say, Yes, I am glad plays it in a piano recital in New York in 1985. Such traditions of composing music to homily preparation and where a percentage of income tax is baptism, our faith, our belonging to the I was baptised! I want to belong to the composition and performance depends on the invention of delivery. On the one hand, there are those who ‘notate’ their homilies completely. On the other hand, there are the assigned to registered churches. Across church? If the response at some point is communion of disciples of Christ. I modern musical notation which enables the performer to Europe, in the Netherlands and Belgium, read what the composer has written improvisers. Actually a homily is rarely a true negative, is this not better than just would have it no other way because the improvisation in the sense of being impromptu. The Germany and Austria, people are opting drifting, living as though baptism is Gospel brings me life in all its fullness. But there is another tradition in Classical music, that of improvised homily is prepared by thought and prayer out of state church taxes. In this case irrelevant and our faith impotent? improvisation, where the composer is also performer, and during the week and even by writing some notes, but is they generally cannot have access to a Perhaps this Easter we could compose the music is ‘made up’ on the spot without the benefit of delivered by filling in and extending the written points or church wedding or funeral. Many of Infant baptism has had a long history. our own notation, and without the luxury of time to practice. Most headings. What can the art of music teach us about each of these people may not necessarily want to In some periods children were baptised people are aware that this occurs in the art of jazz, but these practices? into a stable society impregnated with don’t realise that it has existed for centuries as a Classical reject their faith or their baptism, but do Dfsujgjdbuf tradition alongside notated musical work. The first thing to remember is that while a notated piece wish to put some distance between Christian values. Believing and and an improvised piece are created under different After due consideration, Let’s examine these two traditions in more detail. themselves and the institutional Church. belonging could be taken for granted. circumstances, they are both ‘writing’ and the goals and the The tide of Catholics retreating from the I affirm.... Notating a piece or ‘writing it down’ offers several rules are the same. The composer wants to make an More troubling is the case of a expressive and aesthetically pleasing piece, and the same Church in Europe demonstrates that this What would you write? advantages and benefits. Many composers find the act of Frenchman who, last October, is no longer the case. The liturgical rite working on a piece ‘on paper’ as opposed to ‘in time’ aids rules of harmony, melody writing, form and structure govern each, whether the music is notated or improvised. successfully mounted a lawsuit to have makes it clear that baptising infants the generation of ideas. One idea suggests other ideas or his name permanently deleted from the ways become apparent in which the material can be Composers are ‘ideas collectors’. Many of them keep addresses those who cannot have or manipulated. Secondly, when you have a certain amount church records. I find this problematic but is rather a music notebooks which they carry with them to jot down profess personal faith, of material on paper, you can analyse it more easily and ideas while out for a walk or whatever.

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