And in related news, Golan v. Holder was decided...zombie copyrights live! http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-545...

What's a composer to do? Write for a once and future Church, hoping for an occasional secular concert performance? Or write for a service structured to be deliberately anti-art? The Propers are in practice a rumor more than a reality. The sing-along Ordinary militates agains expression. The minor mode effectively left with the Kyrie and the old-translation Confiteor, and lives a shadowy existence in hearty Dorian-mode English folk style hymns; after all, we don't want people to feel bad about themselves. The only part of the OF mass where there's potential for growth is in the Psalm, which, even crippled as it is by those short ritornelli, could be much more expressive and interesting than it generally is. Bless people like Rice, Ford, Ostrowski, Bartlett and the rest, because it's really hard to motivate myself to do that.

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