Liturgiam Authenticam and its accompanying press release.
Translating Tradition: A Chant Historian Reads Liturgiam Authenticam by Peter Jeffery, Obl.S.B.; Introduction by R. Kevin Seasoltz, O.S.B.
Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2006.
ISBN: 978-0-8146-6211-3
Publisher's blurb at Liturgical Press
Honorable Mention in the Liturgy section, Catholic Press Association 2006 Book Awards; also reported in America Magazine
"liturgy wars" -- "http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/post/index/265/The-liturgy-wars-Part-8064
"poor . . . arguments," yet also "a jewel of a discussion" -- http://catholicsensibility.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/excluding-participatio-in-the-1962-rite/ (scroll down)
"hilarious," but "cruft," yet somehow "very highly regarded, . . . required reading" -- http://cantatedeo.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_archive.html (scroll down)
"a delightful stylist as well as a formidable scholar" but "miss[es] the point" -- http://chicagomonk.blogspot.com/2007/12/best-books-of-2007-musicliturgy.html
"No wonder so many masses sound like they were composed for Sesame Street." -- http://wafflinganglican.blogspot.com/2006/04/incarnate-is-not-intelligible-to-vast.html
Though it doesn't address my book (it was published several years earlier), Joseph Jensen's article "Liturgiam Authenticam and the New Vulgate" is well informed.
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