NCMEA COMMEMORATES JUBLILEE YEAR OF BLESSED PIUS TENTH/S IIMOTU PROPRIO" (1903 - 1953) AT CONVENTION IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MAY 3 - 6, 1953 MAY - JUNE, 1953 Volume 80 - Number 4 thCRCU1CUJ ~catholJcchuRCh <3=:srnOO[mUS1C MUSIC .. 'PUBLICATIONS FOR PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS Music for Life A new series of eight books for the grades. Each book contains hymns, chants, rhythm and -game- .songs, science and social study songs and miscellaneous selections. Book III now ready. Books I and II ready Summer - 1953. • · Our Prayer Songs --:, Melod~~: with English words to be used with course materials in religious in­ struction in the grades.. Grades I through VI npw ready. • Chant Melodies A graded series of chants intended .for school, college or the home. 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National Headquarters for Catholic Church and School Music A REVIEW OF CATHOLIC CHURCH and SCHOOL MUSIC VOLUME 80 Number 4 MAY - JUNE, 1953 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THIS ISSUE A New Song 130 The music supplement of this issue contains music Sister M. lVfillicent, C.S.A. planned by the Liturgical Music Committee of the Boston Church Music Regulations 133 National Catholic Music Educators Association for use at the Convention to be held from May 3 through 6 in Atlanta, Georgia. As will be noted from the music, ex­ The Story of the Wicks Pipe Organ 137 tensive participation in the liturgical events of the week Reviews 140 is anticipated. The Pius Tenth Motto "To Restore All Rev. Francis J. Guentner, S./. Things in Christ" has been selected for the theme of the Convention ... SISTER M. MILLICENT, C.S.A. of Fond Music for Life 142 du Lac, Wisconsin, makes her debut in these pages via a Sister M. /ohn Bosco, C.S.M. stimulating article on music for the sisterhood novitiates entitled "A New Song". This is the first of a series which Laborer in the Vineyard 143 Sister Millicent will write concerning the training pro­ Our Music This Month 144 gram for sisters in Church Music ... The Archdiocese of. Boston recently issued a new set of regulations govern­ Music Supplement and Convention Highlights 145 - 176 ing Church Music. CAECILIA reprints them here with the kind permission of the Music Commission ... An St. Robert Bellarmine and Liturgical Music (VI) .. 177 impressive number of summer schools in Church Music Rev. Alfred Bernier, S.]. will be held again this year throughout our land. These give abundant evidence of thriving activity in this Jubilee Question B~x 182 Year of the Motu Proprio. .. In REV. ALFRED BER­ NIER'S installment of "St. Robert Bellarmine" we read Index of Advertisers 183 the background to the famous Medecaean Gradual ... REV. FRANCIS GUENTNER, S.]., introduces a first of a A Choirmaster's Notebook 185 series of columns in which he and members of the staff Theodore Marier will review records, books and music of interest to Catho­ lic choirmasters and organists. SR. M. JOHN Bosco, Summer Schools - 1953 187 C.S.M,. is currently editing a new series of music books for use in the parochial schools. Read her apologia in Names - People - Doings 189 "l\Ifusic for Life". Blessed Pius Tenth Coat of Arms on cover drawn by Gerard P. Rooney Editorial Staff: Louis L. Balogh, Rev. Francis Brunner, C.Ss.R., Rev. Russell H. Davis, Rev. Francis Guent­ ner, S.]., Rev. Robert Rayburn, Rev. Cletus Madsen, Theodore Marier, Rev. Clement l\IIcNaspy, S.]., Sr. M. Milli­ cent, C.S.A., Rev. Elmer F. Pfeil, Pius Tenth School of Liturgical Music, William Arthur Reilly, Rev. Russell Woollen. 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When reporting change of address, give old and new address in full, and allow one month for change to become effective in our mailings. 130 CAECILIA A Discussion of the Objectives for Teach~ltg Chant in the Novitiate A NEW SONG Sister M. Millicent, C.S.A. r----. UBILEES ARE MILESTONES. IT IS ough course in the elementary principles of Greg­ at such times that one takes stock of orian Chant. This quite coincides with the train­ one's spiritual and material assets ing of the novice, for the essential note of Greg­ and liabilities. This golden jublilee orian music is that of spirituality which urges to year of Blessed Pius X's "Motu Pro­ nobler endeavor. Then, too, the young girl who prio" suggests a balancing of our lit­ enters the novitiate is ready to begin, as it were, a urgical music accounts. Those of us new life. What more appropriate time can be privileged with the training of young religious have found for her to learn a "new song?" a double obligation: the deepening of our own In order that we might better fulfill our second knowledge of Church music and our love for it; obligation, "the transmitting of knowledge and and the transmitting of this knowledge and love to love for Chant to those who are to carryon the those \\Tho are to carry on the work in the Lord's work in the Lord's musical vineyard," let us con­ musical vineyard. sider the following five general objectives for lVe all are cognizant of the Thomistic principle teaching Chant in the novitiate, and endeavor to that knowledge begets love; as our knowledge of ascertain whether or not we are fulfilling these ob­ God deepens, our love for Him increases. So, too:, jectives: as our knowledge of His love-song, the Chant, 1. To fulfill the wishes of the Church as ex­ deepens, our love for it increases. With this knowl­ pressed in the "Motu Proprio" of Blessed Pius X, ledge and love comes an eagerness and enthusiasm in the "Divini Cultus" of Pius XI, and in the to enkindle in others the life-giving spark of love "Mediator Dei" of Pope Pius XII. for the Chant. We have said that the canonical year of the The liturgical movement in the United States novitiate is an appropriate time for the novice to has passed the experimental stage. Today, it is a learn her "new song." However, before she can well-developed and organized part of our Catholic sing this "new song," the novice must begin to put educational program. It would, however, be pre­ on a new mind, the mind of Christ, which is at sumptuous .to assume that the liturgical movement once the mind of the Church. This, the first ob­ has reached its peak, its full growth. Fifty years af­ jective aims to do. In the papal pronouncements ter the appearance of Blessed Pius X's "Motu Pro­ mentioned above, we find such statements as : prio,~' and twenty-five years after that of Pius Xl's ". .. in Seminaries and Religious Institutes Greg­ "Divini Cultus," we still find a vast number of in­ orian Chant should be diligently and zealously dividuals who "know" the mind of the Church re­ promoted ..." (Motu Proprio and Mediator garding sacred music, but who do not as yet Dei). "To realize all these hopes - the restora­ "love." .A. conscientious endeavor on our part to tion of sacred music according to the rules traced fulfill our "double obligation" will undoubtedly out by the Church - it is necessary to have a very contribute a great deal to bringing the liturgical great number of skilled teachers." (Divini Cultus ) movement to its peak. 1'here is no way of educating the public of 2. To impart a knowledge of the theoretical changing habits and prejudices, save through our fundamentals of the Church's own song. schools. Our Sovereign Pontiffs were certainly To teach well demands that the teacher not only well aware of this fact. In the "Divini Cultus" of possess the ~rt of teaching, but also supposes that Pius XI, for example, we read: "The study of one be qualified in the subject to be taught. If the Chant and music must commence in the elemen­ novice has not learned to sing her "new song" cor­ tary schools .. ." There is no way of changing rectly, intelligently, artistically, and prayerfully, the type of music education in our schools save she will not be able to go forth and teach the chil­ through the formation of the teachers, their train­ dren confided to her care how to "pray in music." ing in nlusic in the novitiate.