Pope John XIX and the History of Music
With Guido’s method, the association between the syllables (Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La) and the intonation of the individual sounds remains firmly impressed in memory.
With Guido’s method, the association between the syllables (Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La) and the intonation of the individual sounds remains firmly impressed in memory.
We, the priests and Christians, have not succeeded in destroying the Church! And would you like to do it?
Outside Italy this form of composition would find among most famous authors, Johann Sebastian Bach.
In the Blessed in Paradise, the instruments project us into the spiritual harmony that the blessed regain in music.
I can hardly follow in my hand Missal, let alone pray, in times like this.
"He is a very distinguished and enlightened individual and a Prince full of dignity."
It was heard in Paris on April 18, 1802, Easter Sunday, when the Concordat was proclaimed in France.
He composed the text and the melody of almost 1200 hymns (šarakan), troparia, odes, and liturgical songs.
"Holy Mother Church holds all lawfully acknowledged rites to be of equal right and dignity; that she wishes to preserve them in the future and to foster them in every way." -Vatican II