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This book is about the meaning of liturgical songs. Everybody who singsliturgical songs knows what a liturgical song is and also what it eans. Butwhen we start to talk about them things become confused. We know too much andthere are too many languages in which we can express what we think theirmeaning is. And what is worse other people seem not to understand what we sayand immediately reply that we may know a lot but not what they know. Then thediscussion turns into a quarrel amongst people who know too much and connotcommunicate what they know. A wise person may enter into the quarrel and saythat communication about liturgical songs can only succeed when we singtogether. Then we will sing together confused and angry because we now alsoknow that the other people may sing very well but do not understand what theyare doing. This is what has been happening for decades in the Dutch churches.Perhaps we should be silent and start to look and listen very carefully toliturgical songs while developing a language in which the songs themselves canspeak communicating what they have to say. The looking and listening will takemuch time and energy there are no more easy answers. And the language will beso difficult that we are forced to be silent waiting and hoping for a word tocome. 1960 is a musicologist theologian and semiotician. In the present workhe develops a very strict scientific method which can help to understand howliturgical songs work that is in what manner they generate meaning Peeters1995 «
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