id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
2801pg17546	Walter William Whitehouse	The Musical Prelude to Vatican II: Plainchant, Participation, and Pius X	2011		.txt	text/plain	286	7	25	The liturgical reforms of Vatican II have issued in two signal developments in modern American Catholic worship: the rise of more fully active participation by the lay faithful, and the virtual disappearance of the historic body of western church music, Gregorian chant. In our day of liturgical retrenchment, this research adds a cautionary note to romanticized notions of pre-Vatican II music; it shores up the commitment to fully active liturgical participation both by historical precedent and the long theological grounding of the twentieth century; and it offers a (non-political) groundwork for re-appropriating the inestimable treasure of the Gregorian inheritance.	cache/2801pg17546.txt	txt/2801pg17546.txt