This article is included in Cum Angelis Canere: Essays on Sacred Music and Pastoral Liturgy in honor of Msgr. Richard J. Schuler. Edited by Rev. Dr. Robert A. Skeris, Saint Paul, MN 1990 (Catholic Church Music Associates): Section 5, pp. 29-63.
My permission to reprint is gladly given for the above article in the Schuler Festschrift, pp. 29/63 of "Cum angelis canere," from the original publication of 1990. ~Very Rev. Robert A. Skeris
Msgr. Richard J. Schuler (1920-2007)
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