The Fall issue of Sacred Music (Volume 134) is at the printer. It features William Mahrt on the Motu Proprio, Michael Lawrence on the role of the Cantor, an article by Alise Brown on the Ward Method as compared with other techniques for teaching children, a piece by Peter Philips that is a defense of singing as music, articles on repertory, and many opinion essays and interviews on the current state of Catholic music.

Two additional features are outstanding articles from the archive that have been all but lost: “The Gregorian Religious Dance” by Dom Andre Mocquereau, and “Concerning Hymns” by Adrian Fortescue.

We sincerely hope that you enjoy it. At 72 pages, it is the largest issue in many years.

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Thanks to Greg Smismek for alerting us to errors in the following Communio files: Dilexisti for the Chrism Mass; Tollite hostias for the 24th Sunday, Year A; and Per signum Crucis for the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross (all transposed mode IV antiphons). Please update your collections with the revised PDF files online.