Church Music is Just the Worst (Circa 800, part 2)
Last time we heard John the Deacon explain how Alpine bodies are just incapable of the kind of grace in chanting that Romans naturally have. But maybe the Alpine bodies…
John Ahern
Last time we heard John the Deacon explain how Alpine bodies are just incapable of the kind of grace in chanting that Romans naturally have. But maybe the Alpine bodies…
Charlemagne had been carrying on his father’s mission to unite the chanting practices of western Europe under a single practice when he ran into some snags coordinating the singing between…
“One can see that the iconoclasts, whom one accuses of disdaining and negating images, were those who accorded them their true value, in contrast to the iconolaters who only saw…
It has been a long time since I foisted upon my hapless readers my opinions, screeds, condescending remarks, &c. I have an excuse, but it is a very boring one…
In Sid Meier’s classic game Civilization III, one of the first “technologies” that your chosen civilization must learn is the calendar (which, amusingly, unlocks the ability to build the Stonehenge,…
Is art how modern people create moral order in a godless universe?
If Augustine considers sex something that man cannot enjoy sinlessly, where does that leave music?
“In every state, not wholly barbarous, a philosophy, good or bad, there must be. However slightingly it may be the fashion to talk of speculation and theory, as opposed (sillily…
Technology hardly ever emerges ex nihilio. In fact, it's usually by accident.
There has been quite a lot of Reformation-themed posts going around on these Ad Fontes blogs (can anyone tell me why? I don’t get it, is something going on this…
