It is also true that there will be minority voices who will criticize some positions expressed in the Motu Proprio.
I think of the French musicologist Jacques Viret who in the preface to one of my books says: "According to Aurelio Porfiri - and we agree - one of the causes of the current decline of liturgical music, is the loss of the" Roman "voice, that is to say Italian . This voice, he writes, is "noble, proud, expressive, not sentimental"; and the singer uses the sung words as the preacher does with the spoken words (the accent, ad-cantus, is the vocal, musical link between them). The vocal aesthetics of English choirs, considered by some to be the perfection in sacred music, is very different: an expression of the British temperament, of course, as Aurelio Porfiri states, but also a derivation of the Cecilian movement or of Cecilianism.
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