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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.

SOMMARIO: 1. All’origine (antropologica) del problema: tra scandalo e linciaggio rituale - 2. Competenza confessionale (legalmente pacifica) sull’accusa - 3. (intermezzo) Parallelismi tra linciaggio e scomunica - 4. (segue) Natura giuridica dell’intervento di Pilato. Una lezione di laicità.

Jesus before Pilate. Procedural remarks on a case of legalisation of ecclesiastical lynching

ABSTRACT: The Author wants to reconsider the trial of Jesus through a double critical grid: that of elimination by lynching of those who, by causing scandals, have cracked, regardless of any guilt, the certainties of the group (model dating back to immemorial times, and expression of pagan myths), and that of the execution of the death sentence issued by the great Sanhedrin of Jerusalem against the Nazarene, subject to adequate control by the Roman praetor (limited, however, only to the conditions of its admissibility by the imperial system). The discussion proceeds by underlining the full autonomy in merit of the confessional verdict, which the execution power accessed as a mere formal verification of the existence of conditions of public order considered indispensable by the State system. On the side-lines, the Author takes the opportunity to highlight how these precautions have become less and less renounceable over time, in face of the recurrent ecclesiastical claim to re-propose in new forms the ancestral logic of the ritualized lynching of discuting members.

SUMMARY: 1. Premise - 2. The recognition of the Autocephaly of the new Ukrainian Orthodox Church as a factor of crisis of relations between Ukraine and Russia - 3. The stages of the crisis - 4. The Kiev Metropolia of the Moscow Patriarchate and the War - 5. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the war.

ABSTRACT: The paper analyzes the effects of the recognition of autocephaly by the new Ukrainian Orthodox Church. It constitutes one of the crisis factors in relations between Ukraine and Russia in the ongoing clash in the Orthodox Churches between the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church. The article reconstructs the positions of the various religious denominations present in Ukraine in contending for the representation of the interests of the Ukrainian people. It explores how the war is undermining the relationship between the Russian Orthodox Church and its Metropolia of Kiev. It also analyzes the role played in the crisis by the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Catholic Church, a sui juris Church that aspires to play a supranational role.

1 - Nel febbraio 2008 in questa Rivista telematica apparve un saggio di Antonio Fuccillo dal titolo Il valore della tradizione dottrinale: riappare dall’oblio il manuale di Antonio Traverso, contributo poi destinato a essere pubblicato anche in altra sede. Si tratta della dispensa delle Lezioni di Diritto Ecclesiastico del Prof. Antonio Traverso che contiene le lezioni dettate per l’anno accademico 1909-1910; un’opera composta da 493 pagine dattiloscritte, che indica come data di stesura il 28 maggio 1910 e che reca nel frontespizio la scritta “R. Università di Genova” (segue).

The rediscovered manuals of Antonio Traverso

ABSTRACT: The essay examines the manuals of the lessons of Ecclesiastical Law of Antonio Traverso who taught at the University of Genoa between the 19th and 20th Centuries. These completely forgotten works have recently been found and a short reading of them is presented here.