For the most part, I don’t like praise & worship music. I like music that praises and worships God, but I don’t really like the genre of praise & worship music. A few artist can pull it off, like Glenn Kaiser, Steve Bell, and, of course, John Michael Talbot. (Petra’s pretty good at taking praise & worship music and making it into rock music, but then it isn’t really praise & worship music anymore.) Aside, from these, and maybe a few others I’m not familiar with, I think praise & worship music sounds awful. To me it sounds like very poorly done secular music with religious lyrics.
Another type of music I don’t like is religious folk music. Again, to me it sounds like very poorly done secular folk music with religious lyrics, even when it’s done with an organ (I think with an organ it qualifies as a new genre).
What kind of music do we get at a Roman Catholic Mass? I can’t say I’ve heard much of anything except praise & worship music, religious folk music, and even religious rock music. There have been some exceptions, particularly at my cathedral and some of the music at Easter Vigil, but they are very few.
What kind of music would I like to hear at Mass? Sacred music.
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