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Exploitation of Churches by Music Publishers

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I read somewhere that after Gutenberg invented the movable type printing press that the most printed books were missalettes. So it seems that printers and I would assume music publishers flow where the money is.

I sing in the Catholic choir at my church and luckily we have a music director who reads the Vatican II documents and takes what they say seriously. It took him over 20 years but he has moved the congregation from expecting the 4 hymn sandwich to using the ordinaries of the mass for that Sunday. So we do chant more than most Catholic parishes. The General Instruction for the Roman Missal says that chant, because of it history in Christian worship, should have pride of place when someone is choosing liturgical music. Yet I am usually met with an upturned nose when I bring this up to other music directors in our diocese. They just don't believe their congregations will go for that. But here's the rub. The congregation should be following the music and the music should be chosen to be part of a cohesive liturgy. Hymns, especially modern worship music, while they promote congregational singing, are rarely centered around biblical text enough to work into a liturgy with any cohesion with the rest of the service.
 
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I literally could not agree more, to the extent where sparing your blushes, I would quote the final sentence of your post in my signature.
 
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