Description
Recommended in 2008 by the Vatican’s Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, Psallite Sapienter addresses a critical need in today’s Catholic Church. In one volume, the author provides a comprehensive, authoritative, and easy-to-understand guide to providing music for the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.
It covers the types of sung Masses and and what is required of the organist and choir, and the expectations and needs of the full liturgical year, plus weddings, funerals, and Benediction.
It combines an explanation of the rubrics with the author’s own extensive experience with the 1962 Missal, which is particularly useful since the author understands the ordinary form as well and the differences. This one book does the work of a full library on the topic of the extraordinary form, telling musicians just what they need to know.
B. Andrew Mills has been Music Director at Old Saint Patrick Church in New Orleans since 2010. Previously he served at St. Peter’s Church on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., and at the Church of St. Agnes in New York City.
Paperback, 64 pages.
