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Review: Weber’s when reading and singing through but he also has an unequalled feel - gorian antiphon, still in the same the cathedral. father Samuel weber’s english ing for the rhythm and accent mode and following the basic out - At some point I was only Proper of the gradual, The Proper of the Mass , structure of the english language. line of the gregorian model. these moderately enthusiastic about en- Mass published by Ignatius Press. this the english gradual was writ- antiphons are followed by a num - glish chant and thought that, if at most impressive compilation fills ten over a period of several years ber of verses in a somewhat sol- all, it should be written in modern by Horst Buchholz more than 1000 pages and in - and offers multiple options for emn gregorian psalm tone. the notation. however, I have experi - In Susan Benofy’s February 2015 cludes english chant for Introit, each antiphon. the first setting is third setting of the antiphon is in enced that the four-line notation is article “What Must be Sung is the offertory, and communion through- the most elaborate version close ly an embellished psalm tone, with a really easy for anyone to learn, Mass: Resources for Singing the out the church year. syllabic alternative antiphon, providing much greater flexibility Proper of the Mass” she noted In recent years several while the fourth setting is the than modern notation in selecting that Father Samuel Weber’s Prop - composers have crafted an - simplest, reminiscent of the the appropriate pitch for your ers book was forthcoming. It is tiphons and verses in the ver - psalm tones in the mundelein singers. now available from Ignatius Press nacular for the Propers for Psalter by the same author. I highly recommend this new (ignatius.com/Products/PMSS-H/ english-speaking congrega - there is yet another set of english gradual to anyone who the-proper-of-the-mass-for- tions. these collections have verses in the same simple wants to sing the proper antiphons sundays-and-solemnities.aspx). filled a tremendous void for psalm tone of the fourth an - on a regular basis and is looking the Proper of the mass for those who would like to use tiphon setting. for very accessible, yet most beau - Sundays and Solemnities those appointed texts yet do while the settings in the tiful chant in the vernacular. we Hardback, 1292 pages, $34.95 not want to sing too much gradual are intended to be cannot thank father weber enough Following is a review from latin in an otherwise all-eng - sung by a schola, from the for all his hard work, a true labor Adoremus music consultant Horst lish mass. more advanced to the less ex - of love and dedication to liturgy Buchholz: I have often wondered perienced, the antiphons could and the church. I am most confi - historians and scholars have how many parishes faithfully also be sung by a cantor alone; dent that this new gradual will be - taught us that Pope gregory the recite those antiphons at week - in particular, Antiphons III come a standard work and hope it great was most likely not the au - day spoken masses but regu - and IV might even be used as will find a home in many parishes. thor of any of the chant that is larly fall back to hymns and refrains for the assembly with named after him. Nevertheless, songs on Sundays. of the collec - based on the latin chant from the a schola or cantor chanting the Dr. Horst Buchholz is Director of the image of gregory dictating tions from which to choose, one Graduale Romanum . while the verses. this great wealth of op - Sacred Music at the Cathedral chant to a servant while a dove must give special praise to father original melodies are still clearly tions, combined with a supreme and the Archdiocese of St. Louis symbolizing the holy Spirit is weber’s compilation in the eng - recognizable, flow and grammar command of the text and the gre - and vice-president of the Church singing into his ear is powerful lish gradual. Not only does he un - of the english text give the chant gorian modes, makes this new Music Association of America. and unforgettable. this beautiful derstand the patrimony of the its final shape. the second setting gradual most valuable for any image also comes to my mind original latin chant perfectly well, is a simplified version of the gre - church, from the smallest parish to

Footnotes for a Hermeneutic of Continuity: Sacrosanctum Concilium’s Vanishing Citations by Susan J. Benofy Editor’s note: The works cited within this ety of sources but with a generous sprin - and approved in the detailed section by sec - says, simply a matter of the proper style. article are designated with brackets, rather kling from the encyclical Mediator Dei . tion vote. But all the footnotes that cited In fact, it was not only Mediator Dei than superscript footnote numbers. The ([1], p. 131) sources other than Scripture, fathers of the (md) that was cited in earlier drafts of Sc. chart on page 10 supplements this article. church, liturgical books, or the council of there are also numerous citations of Pope yet when the definitive text of Sc was trent were removed in the transition from Pius X’s motu proprio Tra le sollecitudini promulgated on december 4, 1963, there N octoBer 22, 1962, during the this to the final version, reducing the num - (tlS) of 1903, Pope Pius XI’s Apostolic were only 42 footnotes, citing just four cat - first session of the Second Vatican ber of footnotes to only 42. why? constitution Divini cultus (dc) of 1928, egories of sources: 23 cite Scripture, 6 the council, the presentation of the Pierre marie gy, oP, who was a mem - Pope Pius XII’s encyclical Musicae sacrae fathers of the church, 9 liturgical books, constitution on the Sacred liturgy Sacro - ber of the conciliar liturgical commission, disciplina (mSd) of 1955, and the 1958 In - o and 4 the council of trent. the “generous explains the commission’s concern about struction from the congregation of rites, sanctum Concilium began. first the docu - sprinkling” of citations of Mediator Dei ment was read and explained paragraph by developing the proper style for Sc: De musica sacra et sacra liturgia (1958I), had vanished. paragraph, then the full document was dis - According to the tradition of the council which gathered together provisions on to see when and why they were re - cussed. According to historian John w. of trent and even of Vatican I, it should be liturgy and music from these earlier docu - moved we need to look in more detail at the biblical and patristic, and should maintain o’malley, SJ: ments. however, none of these documents procedure followed by the council in ap - a certain distance from theological dis - cardinal frings of cologne led off from is cited in the definitive text. putes. But should one not, at the same the presidents’ table. his opening words: proving Sc (see [2] and [3]). the bishops As the short history above shows, dur - time, take account of the doctrinal style of “the schema before us is like the last will submitted hundreds of amendments during encyclicals, which are more concerned ing their debate and the detailed section- and testament of Pius XII, who, following the discussion of the draft Sc presented at with theological precisions and are some - by-section votes on Sc the council fathers in the footsteps of Saint Pius X, boldly the first session of the council. chapter I what removed from biblical theology? were working from a text whose large began a renewal of the sacred liturgy.” was revised to accommodate the amend - the question was all the more relevant number of citations to earlier documents frings thus sounded what would be a leit - ments, and a definitive vote was taken on since Pius XII had devoted considerable at - made clear the continuity of Sc’s provi - motif of the majority: the council was car - this chapter during this session. tention to the liturgy, in the encyclical, Me - th rying forward work that had already sions with the early 20 -century liturgical Between sessions the council’s liturgi - diator Dei , and elsewhere. Should the begun. ([1]) reform. only on November 22 and decem - cal commission incorporated the rest of the conciliar constitution be a solemn prolon - ber 4, 1963 were they considering a text gation of the Pope’s teaching? could it bishops’ suggestions into the document, without these citations. In the fifty years since the promulga - conceivably abstract from it? tion of Sacrosanctum Concilium (Sc), and the new draft was discussed during the the decision to drop citations to earlier council’s second session. one chapter at a little by little a delicate solution emerged, however, the idea that the council was a a solution that seems to have pleased the documents that gy described, however jus - time was considered. first each paragraph continuation of work already begun was council fathers and to have inspired even tified it may have been, removed these in - obscured by numerous commentaries that was voted on, and then the chapter as a the theological commission in its revision dicators of continuity from the definitive treated Sc as a departure from the past, the whole was put to a vote. Bishops could of schemas. It was decided that the style of version of Sc. the passages cited in the beginning of a “new” liturgy for the “new” vote to approve the text, to reject it, or to the constitution would be that traditionally deleted footnotes, for example, often show post-Vatican II church. o’malley’s ac - approve on condition that it was amended adopted in councils; it would be wholly that an emphasis in the earlier documents biblical, except where canonical precision count indicates that the council fathers in - in a specific way. these final amendments was lost in the much briefer treatment of a was necessary. thus it is that the opening were incorporated into yet another draft, subject in Sc. this is particularly evident terpreted Sc according to what Pope pages, on the history of salvation, are Benedict XVI called the “hermeneutic of which was presented for the definitive vote in chapter VI on Sacred music. twenty- on the document as a whole on November closer to biblical theology than to the style reform in continuity.” If today’s readers are of Mediator Dei . however, at the same three citations of earlier documents were 22, 1963. finally this vote was ratified de - to interpret it in the same way we must re - time, the constitution relies considerably deleted from the ten paragraphs of this discover Sc’s connection to the reform of cember 4, 1963 in a public session. this on the great encyclical of Pius XII, and chapter in the final revision. the cited pas - the earlier twentieth-century popes. And to last version thus became the official con - time and again it uses its very terminology, sages repeatedly emphasize that music in do this it would help to understand a little- stitution on the Sacred liturgy promul - without quotation marks or reference. the liturgy must be truly sacred and explain known editorial decision that may have gated by Pope Paul VI. only in the case of biblical, liturgical and in some detail why this must be so. more - patristic quotations are references given. contributed to the loss of this connection. the successive latin drafts of Sc, in - over, specific sections of earlier documents ([4], p. 70) According to father o’malley the text cluding the footnotes, are collected and were cited repeatedly in Sc, suggesting printed side by side in reference [2]. It is that certain ideas of the earlier reform are of Sc that was presented to the council in Note that gy does not say that the clear that footnotes (numbering about 115) particularly important for a reform in con - october 1962 council fathers requested the footnotes be had 105 sections, running without the from a wide variety of sources are still tinuity, even though they may be treated dropped, or that the content changed in a notes to about 25 pages of ordinary print. present in the draft presented at the begin - only briefly in the text of Sc. way to make them irrelevant. It was, he the notes to the text covered a wide vari - ning of the second session of the council, readers of Sc who are not familiar

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Citations of Five Vatican Liturgy Documents Removed During the Final Revision of Sacrosanctum Concilium

The list includes citations to the following documents: Tra le sollecitudini (TLS) published in Acta Sanctae Sedis 36 (1903-1904) Italian vatican.va/archive/ass/documents/ASS-36-1903-4-ocr.pdf English adoremus.org/traleSollecitudini.html Divini cultus (DC) published in Acta Apostolicae Sedis 21 (1929) Latin vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-21-1929-ocr.pdf English adoremus.org/divinicultus.html Mediator Dei (MD) published in Acta Apostolicae Sedis 39 (1947) Latin vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-39-1947-ocr.pdf English adoremus.org/mediatordei.html Musicae sacrae disciplina (MSD) published in Acta Apostolicae Sedis AAS 48 (1956) Latin vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-48-1956-ocr.pdf English adoremus.org/musicaeSacrae1955.html De musica sacra et sacra liturgia (1958I) published in Acta Apostolicae Sedis 50 (1958) Latin vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS-50-1958-ocr.pdf English adoremus.org/1958Intro-sac-mus.html

Chapter I Chapter V SC § Note # Doc. AAS page English Translation § No citations of these documents §7 (10) DC 33 1st 2 paragraphs (16) MD 522, 528, 573 §§2-3; 19-20; 141-144 Chapter VI (17) MD 529 §21-22 SC § Note # Doc. AAS page English Translation § (18) MD 528-529 §§19-22 §112 (2) TLS not specified not specified §13 (32) MD 583-587 §§170-183 (3) MSD 12 §§29-32 §14 (34) DC 39-40 §§ VII-XI §114 (4) MD 589 §§191-192 MD 552, 555, §§80-81; 88-92; 102-104; 105-106 MSD 18-19 §§53-60 559, 560 1958I 646 §§48-49 (35) TLS 330 3rd paragraph of Intro §115 (6) TLS 338 §25 §19 (40) 1958I 659-660 §§104-108 DC 36-37, 40 Last 3 par of Intro and §§ I-IV; §§ X-XI §20 (41) 1958I 652-653 §§74-79 MD 589 §§191-192 §21 (42) MD 541-542 §§49-51 MSD 23 §§72-76 §22 (43) MD 544 §§58-59 1958I 662 §§115-117 (44) MD 594 §§205-208 (7) TLS 338 §27 §23 (45) MD 541-542 §§49-51 DC 38 §§V-VI §27 (48) MD 557 §§96-98 1958I 658, 662 §§98, 114 1958I 633 §2 §116 (8) TLS 332 §3 §29 (49) 1958I 656 §93 1958I 636 §16 §35 (51) MD 580 §§164-165 (9) MSD 8 §§14-17 §45 (58) MD 562 §§110-113 §118 (10) MD 590 §§193-195 1958I 663 §118 MSD 20-21 §§61-68 §46 (59) TLS 338 §24 1958I 636, 647 §§15, 54 MD 561-562 §§107-113 15 is what is printed, but possibly 51 (p. (60) 1958I 663 §118 647) is meant since it deals with hymns. §119 (11) MSD 22 §§69-70 Chapter II §120 (12) MSD 19 §§57-59 §48 (3) DC 40 §§X-XI §121 (13) MSD 11-14 §§25-40 MD 555 §§88-92 (14) MSD 20 §§61-63 §52 (11) MD 529 §§21-22 §55 (15) 1958I 638 §22c Chapter VII §122 (1) MD 591 §§196-198 Chapter III MSD 11 §§25-28 No citations of these documents §123 (2) MD 590-591 §§193-196 §124 (4) MD 591 §§196-198 Chapter IV §126 (5) 1958I 663 §118 §83 (1) MD 573 §§141-144 §127 (6) MD 591 §§196-198 §84 (2) MD 573 §§141-144 §100 (9) MD 575 §§148-150 1958I 645 §45 with the liturgical teachings of earlier twen - references to the Acta Apostolicae Sedes, in however, an annotated version is avail - of Sacrosanctum concilium: development tieth-century popes and are not led by foot - which the official latin versions of these able as part of the online edition of this of a method and Its Application,” Antiphon notes to the documents that explain them documents are published. Sections in the issue of AB on the Adoremus website at 8:1 (2003) pp. 2-9. will almost certainly see Sc as a document latin versions are not numbered, so the list adoremus.org/Adoremus Spring2015.pdf. 4. Pierre marie gy, oP, “the constitution in the making” in Doctrine and Life , vol. 14 with no connection to the recent past. they gives paragraph numbers from the english #1 (January 1964) pp. 65-74. are thus unable to see Sc as the council fa - translations as well. tlS and 1958I do have Works Cited thers did — as the continuation of reform section numbers in the latin and this is the 1. John w. o’malley, SJ, What Happened at begun by Saint Pius X. form of the original citations, but the list Vatican II? (cambridge, mA: the Belknap As an aid to such readers, citations that also includes the page references for the Press of harvard university, 2008), p. 131. were deleted from the draft of Sc in the latin (Italian for tlS) versions. 2. Concilii Vaticani II Synopsis in Ordinem Redigens Schemata cum Relationibus nec - final revision are listed in the chart above. An annotated version of Sc with full non Patrum Orationes atque Animadver - the list is organized by paragraph numbers text of any cited passages inserted after siones-Constitutio de Sacra Liturgia: of Sc (which were not altered in the final each paragraph makes the task of consult - Sacrosanctum Concilium (citta del Vati - revision). citations for dc, md, and mSd ing these passages more convenient, but is cano: libreria editrice Vatican, 2003) appeared in the earlier draft of Sc as page too long to print here. 3. cassian folsom, oSB, “the hermeneutics

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