Sacred music and liturgical reform : treasures and transformations

Part I. The role, purpose, and characteristics of music in the liturgy

1. The nature of the liturgy and the nature of music

2. The purpose of liturgical music based on the nature of the liturgy

3. The characteristics of liturgical music

Part II. The development of musical historical consciousness

4. Music and history

5. Worship music new and old in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

6. The nineteenth-century Cecilian turn to the past

7. The nineteenth-century Gregorian chant revival

8. The twentieth-century German Lutheran rebirth of church music

9. The early music and authentic performance movements

10. Musical historical consciousness and a theology of tradition

Part III. The Liturgical Movement and liturgical music traditions

11. The Liturgical Movement

12. Liturgy and music at cross purposes

Part IV. The treasury of sacred music in the Roman documents on worship music of the twentieth century

13. The Motu proprio, tra le sollecitudini (1903) and its aftermath

14. Roman documents, 1947-1958

15. The Second Vatican Council: Sacrosanctum concilium (1963)

16. Musicam sacram (1967)

Part V. The treasury of sacred music in the reformed Roman Eucharistic liturgy

17. Problem area I: active participation and listening

18. Problem area II: the role of the choir

19. Problem area III. The liturgical composer

20. Using inherited genres I: Gregorian chant

21. Using inherited genres II: the polyphonic Mass Ordinary

22. Using inherited genres III: the motet

23. Using inherited genres IV: the vernacular congregational hymn