Roman Ritual and Its Canto Fermo Compared with the Works of Modern Music in Point of Efficiency and Fitness for the Purposes of the Catholic Church - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849. Excerpt: ... tion of music with the words of inspired truth, I propose in the ensuing inquiry, to draw a detailed comparison between the Roman Liturgy and its traditional song, on the one hand, and the works of the modern art of music, which constitute the corps demusique, if I may use the expression now in use, adapted as they are to parts of the Liturgy, and in their own way contributing to supply the want that is felt for sacred music; and this with the view to ascertain, as far as may be, from the result of the comparison, in which of the two the Divine idea and intention is best answered and fulfilled. The human mind will not, and indeed ought not, to submit to any mere human idea, but ought willingly to accept the Idea of God; and hence, nothing but the Divine idea, and this alone, is or can be the key to the present inquiry. CHAPTER II. THE COMPARISON CARRIED INTO ITS DETAILS. It has been already laid down that Sacred Song is the union of music to the words of inspired truth, with the view of its thus becoming an auxiliary in the work of Christian instruction and sanctification. Before passing on to the approaching details, let us stop for a moment fairly to consider the result of this principle as it affects the comparison generally. Here, on the one hand, we have the Canto Fermo, with its vast variety of music, embracing an equally varied range in the stores of Divine revelation, inasmuch as it is the counterpart in song of the entire Ritual; on the other hand we have the works of modern music, of which I am speaking, embracing scarcely more than a fraction of the Ritual. With a 10 COMPARISON CARRIED INTO ITS DETAILS. vast numerical rather than a real variety in point of the one constitutive element of Sacred Song, viz. music, they are poverty itself as regar...

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