Adult Education course: The Mass and its Music
THE MASS AND ITS MUSIC
The course explores the structure of the Roman Mass, the role of music in faith formation, the major reforms in the Church’s history: their cause, the reforms.
Participants will also explore controversies surrounding liturgical music and provides an historical context for the musical changes in the Church following the Second Vatican Council
The course will also examine the music of the Catholic Church from an historical and artistic perspective. It will examine some of the issues that have surrounded major changes in the Church’s music, such as the role of music in faith formation. Its historical content will be organized around three historical periods in which the Church was significantly focused on musical developments or changes:
- the Carolingian Renaissance and the development of Gregorian chant,
- The Ars Nova and the beginnings of polyphony
- the reforms of the Council of Trent
Instructor: William Mulligan
Sundays, April 24 – May 22, 2022
3:00 – 4:00 PM; Classroom 1B
Fee: 40.00
Kayla August is a doctoral student at the School of Theology and Ministry at Boston College, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in Theology and Education with a focus on preaching. She desires to use preaching to impact religious education by inspiring Catholics to deepen their encounters with scripture, tradition, and how God plays an active role in our daily lives. As a lay woman in the Church, Kayla makes a point to preach whenever and wherever she can. She has recently preached in a variety of places including for the organization Catholic Women Preach, McGrath’s Institute for Church Life at Notre Dame, and a variety of Catholic churches and universities across the U.S.
