Jeffrey Tucker has just published an excellent piece on NLM about the revival of Gregorian chant and the stereotyped account of changes to Catholic Church music in the late sixties. He points out that the dogged adherence to the standard myth is preventing people from understanding what is happening now.
It is well worth a read. See: The People vs. The Trained Elites?
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Another point in this discussion is that of durability: there is an enormous power in singing a piece or style of music that has served the Church since the earliest days, which I don't see many of the more modern pieces ever likely to replicate. I may be proved wrong in time but I don't see the folk canon being anything other than relatively limited - and limiting.
Andrew J
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