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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2020
We are all accustomed to regard the music for the Latin rites of the Catholic Church as a glorious part (for at least seven centuries the main part) of the heritage of Western music. So of course, it is. But if its development be examined from the pastoral aspect, if we ask how far this music has assisted the majority of worshippers in understanding and participating in the liturgy as ‘the outstanding means whereby the faithful may express in their lives and manifest to others the mystery and the real nature of the true Church’, a very different picture results. To understand the need for changes in liturgical music today and the reasons why it has taken so long for this need to be openly admitted and changes officially sanctioned, requires a brief historical introduction.
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