Music from the Catholic liturgy at the beginning of the 21st century, in its ritual context and analysis' elements

Abstract

This paper presents results of a research about repertoires of Catholic liturgical music today, analyzing these results through studies in Catholic music and liturgy. We talked about how the songs of the Catholic liturgical celebration are present in academic musical studies in their oldest forms, and there is a gap in terms of updating this knowledge. We followed twenty celebrations, recording some songs from their online transmission, trying to identify the songs recorded, and from the amount of songs played, we highlight the one that was most repeated, making a more detailed analysis on it. Our results showed that we can find chants with the same or almost identical lyrics to those that appear in traditional studies in music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, these chants also being situated in the same ritual moments of celebration over the centuries, however, as far as to the melodic and structural characteristics, with several changes. We hope to contribute to updating knowledge in music, considering the relevance that this art has for Catholic celebrations, which resonate in the history of music today.