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Joseph P. Swain is author of Sacred Treasure: Understanding Catholic Liturgical Music (Liturgical Press, 2012), associate professor of music at Colgate University, and director of music at St. Malachy’s parish in Sherburne, New York.
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Is the Organ Really a Sacred Instrument?

January 11, 2017 Joseph P. Swain 0

The Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, the document shaping modern Catholic liturgy, has much to say about the music of the Mass, including this:  In the Latin Church the pipe organ is […]

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