Visiting composer: Ecumenical composer Marty Haugen, whose works are used by many Catholic parishes around the world, in Brisbane for the Australian Pastoral Musicians Network national conference last week. DIRECTING music for an American Catholic parish drove a Christian musician down a 25-year journey as a contributor to the Church’s liturgical music. Show Marty Haugen, a former Lutheran who now belongs to the Uniting Church of Christ, took what he thought was a temporary job as music director for the Catholic Church in Minnesota in 1973. Inspired by the shift in liturgical music following the Second Vatican Council, which included works by the St Louis Jesuits, Mr Haugen created his own repertoire and shared them with the Catholic Church. Many parishes have added his compositions to the Sunday Mass song list, including We Remember and Gather Us In. “About 80 per cent of the work I do is with the Roman Catholics,” he said. Mr Haugen, 65, visited Brisbane to speak at the national conference from October 1 to 3 for the Australian Pastoral Musicians Network, a non-profit organisation promoting liturgical, catechetical and religious music. The conference presenters included Australian liturgical composer Monica O’Brien, religious musician Michael Mangan, and composer and Verbum Dei missionary Dr Maeve Heaney. Mr Haugen said he studied various Church documents to prepare for writing for the Catholic Church. “I had been writing all along but not liturgical or even Christian music, I’d just been writing music,” Mr Haugen said. “I went and got a Masters in pastoral studies. “The important thing for me was knowing the Scriptural texts and the Liturgical texts of the liturgy, the words. “This is part of my Lutheran background – words are really important. “In the Catholic Church there are two issues – one to be theologically correct, and second if it’s the words of the Mass, you have to use what the words are. “So it was more or less informing myself about the preparations, knowing what you need to write and trying to be faithful to Scripture.” Despite being “criticised” for supposedly disrespecting Catholic tradition, Mr Haugen said he had “a great respect” for the traditions of the Church. “Catholics have a very deep love of tradition and how that has formed faith over the centuries,” he said. “I’ve really respected how the Catholic Church has given this corpus of tradition to help guide people in how you prepare music, and worship. “Now of course Catholic music is all over the map. “Anywhere you go you hear all kinds of things from the most traditional chant to worship and praise music with a rock band.” Mr Haugen’s latest CD Here Among Us, which was released two weeks before his visit to Australia, includes a song inspired by Pope Francis’ announcement for a Year of Mercy. “I wanted to write a song that really focuses on Mercy, because the world doesn’t need another Holy, Holy,” he said. – Emilie Ng COMPOSITIONS•Wala (Nothingness)•Daluy (Flow)•Ibo-ibon (birdwoman)•Salaysay; Patangis-buwaya;Pantawag; Basbasan (Blessing)List of Catholic Church musicians is a list of people who perform or compose Catholic music, a branch of Christian music. Names should be limited to those whose Catholicism affected their music and should preferably only include those musicians whose works have been performed liturgically in a Catholic service, or who perform specifically in a Catholic religious context. Traditional and hymnal
Composers who wrote Catholic sacred musicNote: The term classical music has been used broadly to describe many eras which do not fit the label. Initially the term specifically meant 1730–1820 (the Classical period), but for this list the period from the Baroque period to the modern era will be included in this section. This is because Renaissance and especially Medieval music tends to be dominated, in the West, by Catholic religious music.
Roman SchoolThe Roman School is a group of composers strongly linked to the Vatican and the Council of Trent. Many of them were, or became, priests. Although much of their work is too early to be mentioned here it did survive into the early Baroque. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is generally seen as the most famous member. As a list of members is in the article on the subject, repetition of names in it should be normally avoided, although Palestrina is notable enough to be in both. 21st Century Classical SchoolThere is a small but growing school of church composers, favoring a return to Catholic music that can be called "classical", writing original organ, choral, and vocal music that is often based on Gregorian chant. Twentieth century and contemporary musicPopular composers and artistsContemporary Catholic music takes many forms, from modern hymnody to inculturated sacred works. The genre of modern Catholic music is continuing to grow. Modern Catholic musicians tend toward two main forms of expression: liturgical and non-liturgical. In a liturgical context, music is performed in a manner intended to heighten the spiritual atmosphere of a liturgical service, such as during Sunday Mass, Eucharistic adoration or Stations of the Cross, and is mandated to follow the musical tradition and decrees of the Church, such as those found in Musical Sacra and Tra le Sollecitudini for the Latin rite. The non-liturgical context, though very much worshipful, usually takes the form of a concert or gathering without the presence of a liturgical service and outside of the Mass. Non-liturgical settings are mainly focused on building Christian fellowship within Catholic communities. Non-liturgical artists find the opportunity to uniquely share their faith through their personal lyrics, and directly to audiences between songs, and these gatherings, since they are not a rite of the Church, but a form of personal and popular devotion, are free from the liturgical requirements that accompany a solemn act of worship in a liturgy. Although Catholic musicians tend toward one expression over the other, many will minister within both expressions with the appropriate music styles for each. The following popular composers and performers are of note: Liturgical artists
Black Catholics
Non-liturgical artistsNote: The Unity Awards began in 2001 with the intent of being a Catholic-specific equivalent to the GMA Dove Awards.[18] In certain cases the following mentions winners of this award.
Catholic hip-hop artists
Catholic rock artists
Liturgical musicMany composers have contributed to the distinct pop-inspired sound of contemporary Catholic liturgical music, including Marty Haugen, (a non-Catholic,) Dan Schutte, David Haas, Fr. Michael Joncas, and the St. Louis Jesuits. For more details, see Contemporary Catholic liturgical music. A majority of American Catholic Parishes now use at least some of this style of music in their liturgies.[30] A recent trend has returned to the official music of the Roman Catholic Church, Gregorian chant and to newly composed music based on or inspired by it, and to liturgical projects like the Chabanel Psalms or Adam bartlett's Simple English Propers.[31] See also
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