A Martyr, A Monk, and Song

Today is the Feast of St. Cecilia. But there is another person in history, the monk who invented the staff and solfege that we should also pay heed to:

http://www.catholicchapterhouse.com/blog/2011/11/22/a-martyr-a-monk-and-some-music/

Without his great effort, or someone later on like him, modern Western music may well have never existed!

Contemporary Christian and Catholic Music

I haven't posted in awhile, but this was just a great article on Contemporary Christian music and Contemporary Catholic music that I could not pass up sending it along! :

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2011/11/ccm-contemporary-catholic-music/#comment-253