tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1224423727920393651.post246375641498230570..comments2023-09-13T14:08:53.236+01:00Comments on antony billington’s blog: David T. Koyzis on Church Practices in Public Life: Communal SingingAntonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03562805413837448049noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1224423727920393651.post-46002100168707855972012-07-19T13:21:26.766+01:002012-07-19T13:21:26.766+01:00In the history of church music, addition instrumen...In the history of church music, addition instruments are fairly rare and recent and divisive. Performance even more so. Acapella means: "In the manner of the church" There is no organ in the Sistine Chapel. <br /><br />"With this work, the last word of a mind and age, which still believe but no longer adore, subjectivism finds its supreme manifestation, and the orchestra its most potent means of expression. The Church has never encouraged, and at most only tolerated, the use of instruments. She enjoins in the "Cæremoniale Episcoporum" that permission for their use should first be obtained from the ordinary. She holds up as her ideal the unaccompanied chant and polyphonic, a capella, style. The Sistine Chapel has not even an organ. " The Catholic EncyclopediaStevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07289061838973855489noreply@blogger.com