Table of Contents

Part I 1. What the Roman Rite is 2. The Liturgical Movement 3. In the Name of the Council 4. Is the Medicine called Obedience? 5. Objections 6. Lex Credendi 7. From Ecclesia Dei to Summorum Pontificum 8. One Rite Two Forms? 9. The Co-existence of the two Rites 10. Mixing the Rites 11. The Method of the Organic Reform Part II 1. Ritus, Usus, Consuetudo, Optio 2. The Language of the Liturgy 3. Ad Orientem 4. The Divine Office 5. The Calendar 6. The Readings of the Mass 7. The Proper Chants of the Mass 8. The Sacramentary 9. The Ordo Missae 10. Holy Week Summary

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A serious, scholarly analysis of liturgy combining historical, philosophical and musicological aspects.

About the Author

Professor László Dobszay is Leading scholar of the Early Music Department in the Institute for Musicology in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, as well as teaching at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest and being a musicologist of truly international renown.He is founder of the Schola Hungarica, with whom he has made more than fifty internationally acknowledged recordings, and is the author of The Bugnini-Liturgy and the Reform of the Reform

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‘Certainly his [Dobszay's] scholarship, his candour, his ardent love of the Opus Dei, his charity and his admirable temper in the face of a reformist double standard cannot be too highly admired.'
*Usus Antiquior*

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