medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Just yesterday I stumbled on this passage (Pt. II, q. 2, ch. 6) in the
_Malleus Maleficarum_ (1486), which has a bearing on music in church:
"Anything, also, is superstitious which human tradition without higher
authority has created to usurp the name of religion; such as the
interpolation of hymns at Holy Mass, the alteration of the Preface for
Requiems, the abbreviation of the Creed which is to be sung at Mass, *the
reliance upon an organ rather than upon the choir for the music*, neglect
to have a Server on the Altar, and such practices."
(From the Montague Summers' translation, Dover Books, 1971 reprint of the
1928 edition, p. 180.)
John
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