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?tlu~lc I"IFY"__••"" (}.h.uh.dL Proiect: Volume 90 VOLUME 90, NO. 1 SPRING, 1963 5 Eleventh Annual Liturgical Music Workshop AUGUST 18.30, 1963 BOYS TOWN, NEBRASKA JEAN LANGLAIS, Paris, France, Basilica of St. Clotilde, Organ CORNELIUS BOUMAN, University of Nijmegen, Holland, Liturgy FRANCIS BRUNNER, Chicago, Illinois, Seminars RICHARD SCHULER, College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, History FRANCIS P. SCHMITT, Boys Town, Gregorian Chant, Boychoir PAUL SALAMUNOVICH, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, California, Polyphony, Contemporary Music ROGER WAGNER, University of California at Los Angeles, Polyphony, Contemporary Music Inquire, Music Department Boys T own, Nebraska CAECILIA Published four times a year, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Second-Class Postage Paid at Omaha, Nebraska Subscription Price-$3.00 per year All articles for publication must be in the hands of the editor, 3558 Cass St., Omaha 31, Nebraska, 30 days before month of publication. Business Manager: Norbert Letter Change of address should be sent to the circulation manager: Paul Sing, 3558 Cass St., Omaha 31, Nebraska Postmaster: Form 3579 to Caecilia, 3558 Cass St., Omaha 31, Nebr. CAeCI IA TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial -__ -__ -__ --_ ____ __ __ ___ ___ 3 Sacred Music: Pars Integrans and True Art 5 An Outline of the Practical Problem --------r--- ~ ._ .. 14 The Breviary Reform of 1632: Its Effect on the Hymns 23 Reviews: Books : .___ 28 Music - - .. "" 30 Music Received 33 News Litter c ,________________________________________________________________ 34 Library VOLUME 90, NO. 1 Aquinas Institute SPRING, 1963 DUbuque, Iowa RONCKA BROS.~OMAHA.NEBR CAECILIA A Quarterly Re'JIiew de'JIo(ed to the liturgical music apostolate. Published with ecclesiastical approval by the Society of Saint Caecilia in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Established in 1874 by John B. Singenberger, K.C.S.G., K.C.S.S. (1849-1924). Editor ~ ------------_ Very Rev. Msgr. Francis P. Schmitt CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Francis A. Brunner, C.Ss.R. Elmer Pfeil Louise Cuyler Richard Schuler David Greenwood Lavern Wagner Paul Koch Roger Wagner Paul Manz Rembert Weakland, O.S.B. AlexPeloqllin James Welch CAECILIA ASSOCIATES Dr. Caspar Koch, Pittsburgh, Pa. The Hon. Arthur Reilly, Boston, Mass. Sr. Alphonse Marie, C.P.P.S., ]osephLeahy, Notre Dame, Ind. O'Fallon, Mo. Emmanuel Leemans, Boys Town, Alfred Bichsel, Rochester, N.Y. Nebr. Cornelius Bouman, Nijmegen, Edward Malone, O.S.B., Elkhorn, Holland Nebr. Martin Bush, Omaha, Nebr. Dom Gregory Murray, DOlvnside George Carthage, St. Cloud, Minn. Abbey, England Flor Peeters, Mechelen, Belgium Sr. Casimir, O.P., Greeley, Nebr. Rev. Fred Reece, Stuart,la. Rev. Charles Dreisoerner, Myron Roberts, Lincoln, Nebr. San Antonio, Tex. Sr. Rosalie, O.P., Hastings, Nebr. Rev. Laurence Feininger, Trento, Mario Salvador, St. Louis, Mo. Italy George Schaefer, Omaha, Nebr. Winifred Flanagan, Omaha, Nebr. Dom Ireneo Segarra, Montserrat, Terence Gahagan, London, England Spain Rev. Ferdinand Haberl, Regensburg, Eugene Selhorst, Rochester, N. Y. Germany Frank Szynskie, Boys Town, Nebr. Anton Heiller,Vienna, Austria Sr. Theophane, O.S.F., Milwaukee, Robert Hufstader, Rollins Park, Fla. Wisc. Paul I-Iume, Washington, D.C. Irvin Udulutch, O.F.M., Marathon, Ralph ]usko, Cincinnati, O. Wisc. Aloysius Knoll, O.F.M. Cap., Orner Westendorf, Cincinnati, O. Herman, Pa. Rev. Russell W oollen, Washington, Ernst C. Krohn, St. Louis, Mo. D.C. Jean Langlais, ,Paris, France John Yonkman, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Managing Editor -Norbert T. Letter Library ---- ----- -- -__ --_ ---- ---- -------- --- ----- ----- -- Ferenc Denes Circulation . c -Paul Sing Subscription Price: $3.00; Additional Single Copy75¢ Editorial and Business Address: 3558 Cass St., Omaha 31, Nebraska EDITORIALS Pr,oject: Volume 90 Perhaps there is a certain virtue in being a busybody. And perhaps the editors of Caecilia are somewhat obstinate about at. taining it.. For we have no inside information at all on the liturgical schema which, so the press informs us, will be one of the first things to be adopted when Vatican Council II reconvenes. It is quite possible, then, that the task to which we have set ourselves for Volume 90 comes years too late. Still, if there is no longer any question of influencing persons officially responsible, it may well be that once we have accepted, as we surely shall, the decisions of the Council Fathers, there will be areas-such as the deliberations of .national bodies-where information and discussion will be of some avail. We should like to face the issue squarely, shorn alike of a prejudicial clinging to the status'-quo~ and a pressure which, we are convinced, is not so much popular as planned: deriving from a propaganda which is as often as not both unhistorical and monu' mentally impractical. We therefore submit: a) a discussion. of sacred music both as integral part of theliturgy and as true art, b) an outline of the practical problem. It is our intention to submit both discussion and outline to all sorts of people concerned: liturgists, church.musicians, pastors, and, of course, our readers, who from faithful subscription may bepre. sumed ·to have an abiding interest. We feel. strongly that people who have stuck to their knitting, who have avoided this part or that, who have eschewed estrangement from the current magisterium of the church, have not been counted. It is our hope that your re. sponse will enable us to implement the outline thoroughly through the remaining issues of 1963. Further, we should be most grateful to have received your response by the middle of August, so that it might serve as gist for concentrated discussion during the annual meeting of the American Society of .St. Caecilia which is held in conjunction with the Boys Town Liturgical Music Workshop. We 3 should like to be able to ternlinate the project at that time with a set of clear;cut proposals. The structure of the outline comprises t\VO broad divisions: the first geared to the present form of the sung Mass and to music for the low mass, the second to possible solutions in the event of ver nacular concessions. In both we are concerned with the hierarchy of participation, a notion too often overlooked. in current emphasis on congregational participation. The outline is printed on one side of the page only so that you might conveniently jot down your considerations on the opposite side and mail them to us. The discussion of sacred music as pars integrans and true art is, for want of anything better at hand-indeed anything at all-the text of a sermon delivered on the occasion of the twenty;fifth anni; versary of the St. Paul Catholic Guild of Organists and Choir" masters, St. Paul, Minn. The editor has decided to leave it in its .original form, partly because he has no wish to delete references to Father Francis Missia, who for more than forty years gave formation to a good part of the liturgical music of the mid" and north-west, partly because the setting itself is of significance. This is true at least for those who have borne the burden of the ministry of music for the church over the years, and who, in the end, are likely to continue to do so. The anniversary celebration, in the St. Paul Cathedral, was representative of an era in which most of us were, or should have been educated. Should it pass, its devotion, its obedi; encc, its sacrifice and its glory to God and His. church, are not to be made light of. Guild members, over four hundred of them, sang the Erb "Missa Dona Nobis Pacem"* and the Proper was from the Graduale Romanum. The mass was celebrated by the Most Reverend Leo Binz, the music under the direction of Father Richard Schuler. * Someone had the crust to query: "What about the congregation?" Of course,the guild was the congregation, or at least a more sizeable percentage ofit than can or will sing. 4 I SACRED MUSIC: PARS INTEGRANS AND TRUE ART IoCoThere is one pastoral care paramount not only for this Holy See, but also for individual churches: maintaining and promoting the beauty of the house of God." These are the words with which St. Pius Xth opened his Motu Proprio sixty years ago. If there is a cer; tain flippancy abroad today about there being anything paramount in such maintenance and promotion, certainly there is only one thing that brings you here tonight; and that is a common catholic concern for the beauty of the house of God. More than concern, love-that of which the psalmist sings: IoCoO Lord I have loved the beauty of Thy house and the place where Thy glory dwells." No mere verbal protestation your love, but one born of conviction and sacrifice. None other is worthy of the house of God. That your organization is still fertile in its twenty-fifth year is a great tribute to the vision of its founder, Father Francis Missia. On the occasion of his death a member of the public press of St. Paul remarked: IoCoThe Lord renews his blessings constantly. But he does not create persons like Pr. Missia so often that we can count on seeing another like him hereabouts twice in our time." The gentle; man was not referring to those idiosyncracies which charmed most and galled a few. He knew the importance of what Father called IoCodefinite traditions." He knew the importance of vision. Father Missia's vision was, to use one of his favorite adjectives, the self;same vision of Pius X. It was upon the basis of a three year summer school devoted to the study. of the Motu Proprio that you were launched in 1939. Surely your guild and its founder qualify for that generous praise meted out by Pius X to those l.l.illustrious men who, zealous for the liturgy, acting with the approval of the Holy See and under the direction of their bishops, have founded flour; ishing societies and thus, in nearly all their churches and chapels, have restored to sacred music that honor which is its due." One might here observe that many years before a wide;spread interest in liturgical propriety was in vogue-thirty or forty years before the Motu Proprio, dating back to the 1870's even in this county-it was the conscientious church musician who carried the banner almost alone.