Church Music Association of America
"[1] It publishes the quarterly journal Sacred Music and serves as a professional and social network for musicians, seminarians, and priests dedicated to the aesthetic and liturgical ideals of the Catholic Church.
The CMAA was formed as the American affiliate of the Consociatio Internationalis Musicae Sacrae (CIMS), established by Pope Paul VI on November 22, 1963, the Feast of Saint Cecilia, patroness of music.
[4] According to an account by Richard Schuler,[5] a split emerged very quickly, with President Weakland taking sharp exception to the "negative and restrictive" attitudes in liturgical thinking that he said were present at the Consociatio meeting.
Johannes Overath with a congregation of one thousand, including Archbishop Leo Binz of Saint Paul and Bishop Alphonse Schladweiler of New Ulm, Minnesota.
It will be a record for history that a sincere effort was made in this country to implement the sixth chapter of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy and the instructions that followed it.
To that end, it uses multiple means to disseminate both authoritative information and instruction, as well as actual music, in print, electronic and aural forms.
The CMAA makes new editions of traditional chant works available for free download from its website, sometimes with fuller notation than in the standard 1974 Graduale Romanum and 1962 Liber Usualis books, for the convenience of singers.
In addition, the CMAA offers the full Graduale Romanum of 1961 and numerous other editions of liturgical music in Latin and the vernacular for free download.
Faculty have included CMAA leaders Mahrt, Buchholz, and Skeris, and conductors Wilko Brouwers, Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka, Arlene Oost-Zinner, David Hughes, Gisbert Brandt, and Scott Turkington.
Guest lecturers, teachers and recitalists have included Langlais scholar Ann Labounsky, Ward Method instructor Amy Zuberbueler, Fr.
Frank Phillips, C.R.. founder of the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius, vocal pedagogist MeeAe Cecilia Nam, Fr.
Beginning in 2003, the location was Catholic University of America, and the four-day program included sung Mass daily at the neighboring National Shrine.
Daily Masses, in English or Latin, including the traditional and modern forms of the Roman Rite, were sung at the Madonna della Strada Chapel, as well as Solemn Vespers, and Holy Hours with Exposition and Benediction.
Audio and video recordings of the liturgical and musical offerings of Colloquium liturgies, lectures and addresses are available and widely disseminated on the internet.
[9] Its vice president is Horst Buchholz, Director of Music at the Cathedral Basilica in St. Louis, Missouri[10] and Conductor Laureate of the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra.
