No organ for Triduum
Does anyone know where I can read anything about the practice of shutting the organ off from the Holy Thursday Gloria until the Easter Vigil Gloria? The only place I've come across anything pertaining to it was some things over at www.canticanova.com. I guess I'm looking for the origin of the practice and some documents mentioning it.
posted by Praying Twice @ 8:16 PM
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2 Comments:
A remnant of the idea is found in the current rubrics, which stipulate that the church bells do not ring until the Gloria of the Easter Vigil.
A former seminarian in my church choir did confirm the tradition, that he had heard of it before.
Adoremus has also commented on it.
I am not familiar with rubrics, but it probably related to the tradition of acapella-only music of Good Friday. I have seen Good Friday portion of Triduum done acapella in few parishes I have been in.
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