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What not to do in your Schola! A critical list of errors and how to avoid them!

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[Claud]

The "four-hymn sandwich" came not with the new form but was inherited from the old form. It was the norm. It continues to be the bane of modern liturgical life, a regrettable gift from days of yore to our own times

Ah, I ain't no liturgist but I'm frankly getting a little tired of the cracks about the 4 hymn sandwich.

We have our High Mass at 11:00, where our music director does all the chant quite beautifully. But what are we supposed to do for the Low Mass at 8:30? Not sing? We do three hymns because otherwise there would be nothing. And yes, I know I know, silence in the old Mass and all that, but during the Processional, Recessional, and Communion too?

Second of all, there seems to be this idea that hymns can't be liturgical. The sequences, like the Dies Irae, were hymns prescribed by the liturgy...and there were lots of them in the Middle Ages.

There are plenty of places (and this article as much as acknowledges it) that to get a trained schola to learn and sing the official Roman propers was proving quite onerous. The Indian missions, case in point. So what did they sing instead? Hymns.

So yes, bring back the chant by all means, but don't knock the hymns either.

[Salvation]

This sounds encouraging. Thanks.

[Diva]

The Church gives us a vast number of Glorias and Credos to sing, some of which are far more accessible than Mass 8 and Credo 3. Pick one and stick with it for a while. Don't give in to the popular desire to drag out preconcilar musical corpses (ok, that is too strong a phrase to describe Mass 8, but it is a good phrase and I couldn't resist the rhetoric).

Correctomundo! better to start small and grow. We sing 13 settings of the Gregorian Chant ordinaries at out parish but then Father has been training us over the past 10 years. He would introduce a chant Mass periodically and have the congregation become used to it over say about 6 months and then begin a new one. We are at the point we cycle through them now. My personal favorite is Mass XI Orbis Factor with that lovely Kyrie in Mode I. Credo I is also a good choice for newbies to Gregorian Chant as III is, as the author puts it, hardly Gregorian Chant.