Lesson from History

...consider the Catholic musician in 1964. He was certain that the future of liturgical music would progress by building upon its past, developing the chant tradition of the church and carrying it into the future. Even the documents of Vatican II, particularly Musica Sacra, called for the composition of “new chants for use in the reformed rites”, a sign that this was the vision being put forward at the time. But that is not how things progressed. In a short period of time, the fundamental paradigm of liturgical music changed, causing not just a swerve in the path, but the ending of the path and the beginning of an entirely new path. It can happen… it did happen only some 45 years ago. There were signs of the coming changes, but the acceptance of the paradigms that had guided liturgical music up to that time kept them from being seen, or at least being taken seriously.
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