Comments on: Now Let Us From This Table Rise CWB I 753 https://www.sixmaddens.org/now-let-us-from-this-table-rise-cwb-i-753/ Blogging Catholic Liturgical Music Tue, 19 Aug 2025 07:05:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gio https://www.sixmaddens.org/now-let-us-from-this-table-rise-cwb-i-753/#comment-84552 Tue, 19 Aug 2025 07:05:21 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=20301#comment-84552 The CWB2 editing board did have organists at it’s head. I’d say Mr. Bernard Kirkpatrick was at the head of this committee (his name appears the most in the book and he did typesetting). Various other musicians were involved with the Music Board, and at one point, our Diocese’s organist was on it. It all stems from the fact that Cathedrals are too echoey to make guitars sound good.

My theory is hymnal editors are all super biased towards music that they like and play well. A hymn book is just a person’s collection of favourite hymns, or something to sell to churches. As One Voice is a very different type of hymnal from CWB2, and I’m pretty sure organists weren’t very involved in the former…

CWB2 drew heavily from NLP, AOV, and TiS, as well as CWB1. Even carried over some of the unfortunate hymn edits.

Maybe if we can find out if any of the members of the National Liturgical Music Board had worked in american contexts will we know why CWB2 got a bunch of american tune matchings.

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