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Brief List of Church Music Documents

* Denotes current authoritative documents

2000-present

*General Instruction of the Roman Missal (2011)

Ordo Cantus Missae introduction (unofficial translation)

Chirograph on Sacred Music (2003)

 

1974-1999

Letter to Artists (St. John Paul II, 1999)

Active Participation in the Liturgy (St. John Paul II, 1998)

Ordo Cantus Officii (1983) (2015 Chants)

Jubilate Deo (1974) (minimum chant repertoire)

Jubilate Deo V. 2 / V. 3 / V. 4

Jubilate Deo (1974) (modern notation of above)

Voluntati Obsequens (1974) (letter sent by Pope St. Paul VI with Jubilate Deo)

 

1900-1967

*Musicam Sacram (1967)

*Missale Romanum (1962)

Liber Usualis (1961)

Sacrosanctum Concilium (1963)

De Musica Sacra et Sacra Liturgia (1958)

Musicae Sacrae Disciplina (1955)

Mediator Dei (1947)

Mystici Corporis (1943)

Divini Cultus (1928)

Tra le Sollecitudini (1903)

Vatican Norms for Choirs at the Vatican

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