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It just hit me that the objective of having the Resistance and the CMRI agreeing in regards to music for Mass is a great reason in itself for not trying to compose new hymns in the style of longstanding products of previous centuries.
You would end up with divergent themes. Hymns for CMRI would not be free of some mention of how long should we wait for a valid pope, or how to remain charitable when your friends think their real pope is a heretic, or it's been 50 years, why not 60?
Resistance compositions might bemoan the 'error' or sedevacantism, or asking for God's grace to persevere under the tyranny of evil leadership, or what to do when your mother or father or sister or brother thinks that there IS salvation outside the Church.
We are all far better off if we can stick to the tried and true:
Faith of Our Fathers living still, in spite of dungeon, fire and sword...
Sacred Heart of Jesus, font of love and mercy...
Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est...
Sicut cervus de siderat ad fontes a quarum...
Tu es Petrus et super hanc petrum... (uhhh, maybe not so much....)
How about this one:
De Trinitate
Adam of St. Victor XII cent. music Anon. (T.M.)
1. Profitentes Unitatem Veneremur Trinitatem Pari reverentia,
Tres Personas asserentes, Personali differentes A se differentia.
2. Simplex esse, simplex posse, Simplex velle, simples nosse,
Cuncta sunt simplicia; Non unius quam duarum Sive trium
Personarum Minor efficacia.
3. Nos in fide gloriemur, Nos in una modulemur
Fidei constantia; Trinae sit laus Unintati, Sit et simplae
Trinitati Coaeterna gloria.
Cprt. MCMLIII McLaughlin & Reilly Co. Boston, Mass. (1953 was the heyday of this genre)
I'd be willing to bet my boots that won't be sung in the Vatican any time soon.
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Topic: MUSIC -- used for Mass -- What is appropriate and what is not? (Read 1091 times)