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Constantine I The Great. The Emperor, the man, the leader

ABSTRACT: History is not the teacher of life, but perhaps the reverse could be true if one looks at the emblematic events and proceedings of this interesting study conference, held at the University of Bari from 17 to 18 November 2022, in which the mysteries of the past are probed through the eyes of the present. The author reviews the salient features of the figure of Constantine I the Great as Emperor, Man and Commander to reach perplexing conclusions about his elevation to the honours of the Altars, especially in the Orthodox world.

SOMMARIO: 1. Vita magistra historiae - 2. L’Imperatore - 3. L’uomo - 4. Il condottiero.

The Messina genesis of the dual vocation of Giorgio La Pira, a scholar of Roman law and Venerable of the Catholic Church

ABSTRACT: In the same Messina environment in which the religious conversion of the young La Pira grew, his vocation as a historian of Romanity was also defined as being able to gather the typical unity profile with respect for the diversity of faiths and Mediterranean cultures. Therefore, it is not surprising that Pope Francis, once the "Holy Mayor of Florence" was proclaimed Venerable, agreed with him in recognising the Mediterranean as a place of communication between different worlds.

1 - Un rigoroso pensatore teutonico, Ludwig Wittgenstein, della cui dottrina, pur nel dissenso, non può non farsi carico ogni serio ambito di studi, ha enunciato, fra gli altri, due asserti piuttosto allarmanti in ordine a quanto ci si prefigge di trattare, e cioè: a) che il passato non ci direbbe molto del presente e b) che quando non si ha una conoscenza logico-empirica, cioè fondata sull’esperienza sensibile, sarebbe meglio tacere. (continua)

The friendship with Gladio Gemma in the years of ours teaching in the University of Modena

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. I fatti della politica e l’ambizione di contribuire alle esigenze di armonizzazione costituzionale e allo sviluppo della vita democratica in Italia - 3. Il concilio Vaticano Il e le trasformazioni della società italiana negli anni sessanta - 4. Il dibattito culturale e politico sulla riforma della legislazione ecclesiastica.

ABSTRACT: Individuals and experiences that, in the years between 1962 and 1970, had an important influence on the civic and political growth of the author and Gladio Gemma. New focus was given to the issue of relations between the State and the Catholic Church in the late fifties. The Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965 and the transformation of Italian society in the 1960s. Tendencies in the jurisprudence on the theme of relations between the state and religious confessions. The cultural and political debate on the reform of ecclesiastical legislation.

Canon law and choral singing: unity and plurality among the people of God. An brief introduction

ABSTRACT: Liturgy, music and law seems appartently to be strictly divided dimensions of a religious world. Instead, it is interesting to note how these three different cosmos of religiosity could live together and nurture themself. Even more interesting it is to learn how liturgy law has and music has been used by Catholic and Protestant canon law to shape their different identities through history.

SOMMARIO: Premessa - 1. Canto e liturgia - 2. Dal canto gregoriano al canto piano - 3. La musica figurata, l’organo, le cappelle musicali.

Chant and music in the liturgy: musicological observations between musical practice and ecclesiastical regulations *

ABSTRACT: Chant, polyphony, the role of the organ, and other forms of music performed in the liturgy are examined from the middle ages to the early modern era in order to point out ecclesiastical regulations and possible legislation.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. La fase antepraeparatoria (1959-1960) - 3. La fase praeparatoria (1960-1962) - 3.1. La prima sessione plenaria (12 e 15 novembre 1960) - 3.2. La Relatio De musica sacra presentata alla seconda sessione plenaria (12-22 aprile 1961) - 3.3. Il dibattito sulla Relatio De Musica sacra nella seconda sessione plenaria - 3.4. La Relatio De Musica sacra dopo la seconda sessione plenaria - 4. La redazione dello Schema presentato al Concilio - 5. Il dibattito conciliare sulla Liturgia (1962-1963) e l’approvazione della Costituzione Conciliare Sacrosanctum Concilium.

Music and theology in Sacrosanctum Concilium: the munus ministeriale of music in the liturgy

ABSTRACT: The focus of this article is showing the relationship between music and theology in the Constitution on The Sacred Liturgy (Sacrosantum Concilium). Initially, the article examines the altiora principia of SC in Chapter I which represents the context in which to interpret Chapter VI on the sacred music. Then, from the study of their redactional process, there’s a detailed review of some of the numbers from the same chapter on the sacred music, in order to show how some expressions were elaborated to define the connection between music and theology, especially munus ministeriale.

SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. La constitutio “Docta sanctorum Patrum” - 3. La teoria dell’éthos - 4. Alla ricerca di una naturalis ratio - 5. Il cantus figuratus vel organicus alle soglie del XVI secolo - 6. Il Concilio di Trento - 7. Il De liberis recte instituendis (1533) del cardinale Jacopo Sadoleto - 8. Osservazioni conclusive.

Canonical norm and musical offense. Music as a model of discipline of masses in Latin canon law

ABSTRACT: This essay aims to examine the pedagogical value and repressive function of the liturgical music in classical canon law, with particular reference to the 14th century and to the Council of Trent. Some observations are dedicated to the Platonic matrix - that innervates both medieval and Renaissance thought - and to the concept of naturalis ratio.

SOMMARIO: 1. Interpretazione musicale e interpretazione giuridica. Il rapporto tra religione, musica e diritto - 2. Innovazioni liturgiche e musicali nella Riforma di Lutero: il corale luterano - 3. La dimensione spirituale del canto nella riforma liturgica di Giovanni Calvino. Il Salterio ginevrino - 4. Liturgia e musica nella Chiesa riformata anglicana - 5. La musica quale elemento identitario delle Chiese riformate. Considerazioni conclusive.

Lutheran Chorale, Calvinist Psalter, Anglican Anthem. Religious identities and liturgical music in the Protestant context

ABSTRACT: The paper examines the function played by music in the normative interventions regarding the Lutheran, Calvinist and Anglican liturgy in particular. The plurality of interpretations of the evangelical message that led to the birth of the Churches of the Reformation, in fact, finds precisely in the specific ritual innovations, including musical ones, the representation of an identifying and distinctive theological conception with respect to the Church of Rome.

SOMMARIO: 1. Il repertorio autentico - 2. La questione gregoriana - 3. Cenni sulla notazione sangallese - 4. La restaurazione gregoriana.

Gregorian chant: uniformity versus plurality 

ABSTRACT: From the earliest literary sources, Gregorian chant appears as the result of a great reflection on the sacred texts in an organic and unitary project that covers the entire liturgical year. To each celebration are addressed properly a text and a melody in a precise and unchangeable form because every piece represents a source of references that are part of a rigorous and codified plan. The textual and melodic unity of the Gregorian repertoire, realized in the Carolingian era through a process of hybridization between the ancient Roman chant and the Gallican chant, became a stabilizing factor in the political and religious unification of Europe in the ninth century, determining the end of liturgical regionalism. The wholeness of the repertoire is confirmed by the primitive musical notation, which fixes on parchment a previous oral tradition originating from a common matrix. The long period of decadence that had compromised the intelligibility of the original monody was followed by the colossal work of Solesmes, which allowed the reconstruction in its beauty and integrity. The subsequent 'typical editions' of Gregorian chant were declared normative and pointed to by Pio X as an ultimate pattern for the whole Church.

SOMMARIO: 1. Bonhoeffer, il canto nella Vita comune - 2. Il simbolo oltre le parole - 3. Emozione e razionalità - 4. Canto comunitario e decoro nella liturgia - 5. La Chiesa Luterana oggi - 6. La Chiesa Valdese e Metodista - 7. Le Chiese battiste - 8. Le Chiese pentecostali - 9. L’ambito ecumenico - 10. Alcuni esempi di canto liturgico.

Music in the Churches of the Protestant Reformation, with particular attention to the current situation in Italy

 ABSTRACT: The concepts of new song, decorum, discipline, praise to God, community in Bonhoeffer's theology. Music as a symbolic language. The practice of community chant in Italian Protestant Churches: Lutheran Church, Waldensian and Methodist Church, Baptist Church, Pentecostal Churches. The new hymnbooks. The ecumenical circuit.