How to present the Genre information

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Re: How to present the Genre information

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Re 2 - Sacred music. I have never viewed this as referring exclusively to sacred Christian music. To do so would exclude, among others, sacred Jewish music (of which quite a bit is available at CPDL). Sure, the vast majority of sacred music at CPDL is Christian, but CPDL is a word-wide, international repository of choral music, and to exclude Jewish, Hindu, Arabic, and other sacred music of other cultures would be wrong.

Side note about capitalisation: "Shape Notes" and "Evening Canticles" (to mention just two instances) should be "Shape notes" and "Evening canticles" (this latter was pointed out previously) - in keeping with such things as "Office hymns", "Anglican chants", "Funeral odes", "Votive antiiphons", and the like.
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Re: How to present the Genre information

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I agree you two points, Chuck.
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Re: How to present the Genre information

Post by BarryJ »

Thank you, Chuck. I stand corrected.

About capitalization, I agree with you, and I will make the corrections as you ask. This is standard practice in MediaWiki. Does "General Information" also need correction?
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Re: How to present the Genre information

Post by Richard Mix »

(Pace Chuck, but the Book of Common Prayer is consistent about capitalizing Canticle. The big source of confusion is whether the category should be used only for paired Mag/Nunc or for all Evening Canticles.)

One set of permutations would seem to be Sacred, Secular, either, neither, both. "Textless" might be … neither, unless intended to be hummed for an Elevation, in which case it's Sacred, or whistled for a dance, which might imply Secular. Is "dual" either, or both at once?

Of course 'sacred' is not confined to Christian or even abrahamic uses, as can be inferred from Category:Pagan music and Category:Masonic music. That "Sacred music by season" generalizes no further than some types of Western Christianity is no more than a reflection of my limited expertise.

One could imagine different ways of slicing: liturgical, devotional, instructional, entertaining, bawdy. I'm guessing "Secular" was originally felt useful for educators anxious to avoid the US Constitution's Establishment Clause. The original use of "secular" was for uncloistered settings: it used to amaze me that in religeous context cathedrals are 'secular' institutions.
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