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List of Catholic musicians

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List of Catholic Church musicians is a list of people who perform or compose Catholic music, a branch of Christian music. Names should be limited to those whose Catholicism affected their music and should preferably only include those musicians whose works have been performed liturgically in a Catholic service, or who perform specifically in a Catholic religious context.

Traditional and hymnal

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Composers who wrote Catholic sacred music

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Note: The term classical music has been used broadly to describe many eras which do not fit the label. Initially the term specifically meant 1730–1820 (the Classical period), but for this list the period from the Baroque period to the modern era will be included in this section. This is because Renaissance and especially Medieval music tends to be dominated, in the West, by Catholic religious music.

Roman School

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The Roman School is a group of composers strongly linked to the Vatican and the Council of Trent. Many of them were, or became, priests. Although much of their work is too early to be mentioned here it did survive into the early Baroque. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is generally seen as the most famous member. As a list of members is in the article on the subject, repetition of names in it should be normally avoided, although Palestrina is notable enough to be in both.

21st Century Classical School

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There is a small but growing school of church composers, favoring a return to Catholic music that can be called "classical", writing original organ, choral, and vocal music that is often based on Gregorian chant.

Twentieth century and contemporary music

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Contemporary Catholic music takes many forms, from modern hymnody to inculturated sacred works. The genre of modern Catholic music is continuing to grow.

Modern Catholic musicians tend toward two main forms of expression: liturgical and non-liturgical. In a liturgical context, music is performed in a manner intended to heighten the spiritual atmosphere of a liturgical service, such as during Sunday Mass, Eucharistic adoration or Stations of the Cross, and is mandated to follow the musical tradition and decrees of the Church, such as those found in Musicae Sacrae and Tra le Sollecitudini for the Latin rite. The non-liturgical context, though very much worshipful, usually takes the form of a concert or gathering without the presence of a liturgical service and outside of the Mass. Non-liturgical settings are mainly focused on building Christian fellowship within Catholic communities. Non-liturgical artists find the opportunity to uniquely share their faith through their personal lyrics, and directly to audiences between songs, and these gatherings, since they are not a rite of the Church, but a form of personal and popular devotion, are free from the liturgical requirements that accompany a solemn act of worship in a liturgy. Although Catholic musicians tend toward one expression over the other, many will minister within both expressions with the appropriate music styles for each.

The following popular composers and performers are of note:

Liturgical artists

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Black Catholics

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  • Fr Clarence Rivers - pioneering Catholic Gospel artist, and one of the first to set the Mass to gospel music.
  • Servant of God Thea Bowman - speaker, writer, and recording artist who spearheaded Black Catholic inculturation in the Deep South and elsewhere. Helped develop the first and only Black Catholic hymnal, "Lead Me, Guide Me".
  • Archbishop James P. Lyke - liturgist who also worked on the LMGM hymnal.
  • Bishop Fernand J. Cheri III, OFM - auxiliary bishop of New Orleans and noted choir director and liturgist.

Non-liturgical artists

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Note: The Unity Awards began in 2001 with the intent of being a Catholic-specific equivalent to the GMA Dove Awards.[18] In certain cases the following mentions winners of this award.

Catholic rock artists

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Liturgical music

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Many composers have contributed to the distinct pop-inspired sound of contemporary Catholic liturgical music, including Marty Haugen, (a non-Catholic,) Dan Schutte, David Haas, Fr. Michael Joncas, and the St. Louis Jesuits. For more details, see Contemporary Catholic liturgical music. A majority of American Catholic Parishes now use at least some of this style of music in their liturgies.[30] A recent trend has returned to the official music of the Roman Catholic Church, Gregorian chant and to newly composed music based on or inspired by it, and to liturgical projects like the Chabanel Psalms or Adam bartlett's Simple English Propers.[31]

See also

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References

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  16. ^ OCP
  17. ^ Australian musical centre
  18. ^ "Unity Awards presentation to honor Catholic musicians.(Culture, Et Cetera)". 17 November 2000. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2017. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  19. ^ ovacao.pt "Após 10 anos de uma carreira recheada de grandes sucessos, com 6 CD's editados tendo dois deles atingido Platina, um Dupla Platina e outro Ouro, a Ovação tem o prazer de lançar um novo CD do Padre José Luis Borga, para assinalar esta importante data."
  20. ^ "Ensino Magazine". historico.ensino.eu. Retrieved Mar 5, 2019.
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  22. ^ "Ceili Rain's website". Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  23. ^ a b "Unity Awards for 2004". Archived from the original on 5 February 2013. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  24. ^ Dana Archived 2011-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
  25. ^ Karl Rahner: Ein kleines Lied: In Orientierung [fr], Jg. 23 (1959), (pp. 93-94); Reprint as an afterword to Aimé Duval SJ: Chansons. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1959, (pp. 45-46).
  26. ^ "Heart Beat Records". www.ucmva.com. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  27. ^ Carlos & Minh Solorzano - members of the interdenominational Christian band Come Thirsty from Tucson, AZ who are signed with the Tate Music Group. Both of them also work as Catholic School teachers for the Tucson Diocese. When not working with Come Thirsty can be heard singing the National Anthem at various sporting events while Carlos freelances as a session drummer and as a tribal drumming composer whose music has been featured on VH1, MTV & E! Entertainment Television. Unity Awards 2006 Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
  28. ^ EWTN Religious Catalogue
  29. ^ "Critical Mass - Roman Catholic rock band". www.criticalmassmusic.org. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  30. ^ The Center for Liturgy, [1]
  31. ^ "Simple English Propers - Church Music Association of America". musicasacra.com. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
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