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Regarding the Use of Chant in Your Liturgies
For parish and cathedral musicians, liturgists, monastic music programs, those of religious houses, as well as those in colleges and seminaries.
Regarding your current program:
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1.
In which ecclesial environment do you mostly minister as liturgical musician?
(Required.)
Parish Ministry
Diocesan Ministry
Religious Community or Monastery
Campus Ministry
Seminary or in other Houses of Formation
Hospital Chaplaincy
Prison Ministry
Military Chaplaincy
Other (please specify):
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2.
What music/worship resource(s) does your faith community currently use? (check all that apply)
(Required.)
Hard-bound hymnal
Serial/recyclable hymnal
Self-published hymnal
Worship aids
Screen projections
Other (please specify):
3.
Please provide the percentage of usage of each style of music that is sung in worship by your congregation, choir, or cantor/song leader in a given month.
Chant/plainsong
Polyphony and classic choral anthems
Traditional four-part hymnody
Catholic songs of the 70s and 80s
(e.g. the early music of Haugen, Haas, Joncas, among others)
Contemporary Catholic/Christian worship songs
(e.g., the music of Alonso, Canedo, Manalo, among others)
The music of Taizé and Psallité
Regarding chant:
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4.
Does your faith community appreciate/use chant in its worship?
(Required.)
Yes
No
5.
If your faith community does not use chant in its worship, would your faith community be interested in doing so? Please rate your interest on a scale from one to five: one being not interested to five being very interested:
1
5
Clear
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6.
If your faith community is not interested in using chant in worship, why not? (check all that apply)
(Required.)
Too difficult
Too esoteric
Too traditional
Not our style
N/A, my faith community is interested/uses chant in worship.
Other (please specify):
7.
If chant is used in your community’s worship, please provide the percentage of usage for who typically sings/performs the chant.
Priest/deacon/presider
Schola of select singers
Parish (adult) choir
Children’s choir
Cantor
Congregation
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8.
What resource(s) is/are provided/used by your faith community?
(Required.)
Roman Missal
and other liturgical books
Online resources supplied by Corpus Christi Watershed, CPDL, etc.
CMAA published materials, e.g.,
The Parish Book of Chant
Hard-bound hymnal
Serial/recyclable hymnal
Self-published hymnal
N/A, my faith community does not use chant in worship.
Other (please specify):
Regarding future chant resources:
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9.
Would your faith community be interested in an inexpensive, serial chant resource that provides either:
(Required.)
Not Interested
Not Very Interested
Neutral
Somewhat Interested
Very Interested
A considerable selection of liturgically‑based hymns set to simple chant melodies?
Not Interested
Not Very Interested
Neutral
Somewhat Interested
Very Interested
A collection of Propers set to simple chant melodies for Sunday Mass and Holy Days of obligation?
Not Interested
Not Very Interested
Neutral
Somewhat Interested
Very Interested
A collection of Mass Ordinaries set to simple chant melodies?
Not Interested
Not Very Interested
Neutral
Somewhat Interested
Very Interested
A lectionary for daily and weekend Masses as well as the Order of Mass?
Not Interested
Not Very Interested
Neutral
Somewhat Interested
Very Interested
Or some other resource? (please specify)