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Traditional Catholic Faith => Art and Literature for Catholics => Topic started by: St Giles on February 27, 2025, 06:46:48 PM
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Worth a read.
https://tanbooks.com/products/books/good-music-sacred-music-and-silence-three-gifts-of-god-for-liturgy-and-for-life/
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The mp3 version isn't that good. He's slow and unnatural sounding, and doesn't pronounce latin and some words correctly, and calls Paul VI Paul XI.
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What's mentioned in this book can also be applied to any other art, as we now see a decline in the beauty and complexity of modern architecture and text which now look unnatural and overly simple.
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Sounds like an interesting book. Thank you for sharing! :cowboy:
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The 23 minute interview of Tan with Dr. Kwasniewski, available in the middle of that web link is powerful, because he explains 8 basic notions of the inherent power in music that one day could convert the world. Very well articulated, and instantly the Catholics will realize the grand treasure the Church possesses. Deo gratias! Very informative, worth the listen for sure. Let's just say " it's music to my ears"!
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I'm almost done with the book. There's useful information that goes beyond just music, and as much as I hesitate to read, let alone recommend any conciliar/VII friendly book that quotes often the big names of the novus ordo, it is still a very good book worth reading even for trads. It's a good 95-99% traditional, and even condemns a lot of modernist developments in the church quite strongly at times. The argument is rooted in tradition, just written by an FSSP goer, who I'm sure wishes that VII never happened, at least not the way it happened. Maybe he's just trying to sound friendly to novus ordites, who I would say the book is largely addressed to aside from all Catholics, and then everyone else, though I think it may be too Catholic Church and crisis in the Church oriented for the average non Catholic to get much out of, but then again the truth is found in the Church.