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Real Music: A Guide to the Timeless Hymns of the Church

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Real Music: A Guide to the Timeless Hymns of the Church

Anthony Esolen
May 18, 2022
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Real Music: A Guide to the Timeless Hymns of the Church

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Real Music by Anthony Esolen  (with accompanying CD of 18 hymns recorded by the St. Cecilia Choir of St. John Cantius Church in Chicago) is a comprehensive and delightful guide to the great traditional hymnody of the Church.  In an age when sacred hymns of the past have either been "modernized" or utterly rejected as irrelevant, Real Music restores to us to a treasure trove, the vast heritage of glorious sacred music for congregations and choirs.  In it, Professor Esolen masterfully illustrates how the traditional hymns combine elegant poetry with sound doctrine and music composed and arranged by great masters. With the Church and Her precepts under assault from all sides, we need now, perhaps more than ever before, to contemplate the beauty and truth that these fine hymns proclaim.

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