Music and Liturgical Celebration: Presidential Address

Abstract

My primary purpose in this introductory address is to prepare the ground for the principal papers of our congress and for its numerous other studies connected with the theme “Liturgy and Music.” First, I will open up the horizon before which these presentations are to be understood as contributions to contemporary questions and problems. Then, from the background of the self-understanding of the liturgy, I will point out what seem to me to be some important perspectives under which we can, at this congress, discuss the relationship between liturgy and music.