Museum of Bad Liturgical Music

Stained Glass

I found a great site today, thanks to a link on Father Joe's Blog:
It's the Museum of Bad Art! I'm inspired to begin a Museum of Bad Liturgical Music, but where to begin? Could your parish be a local branch?

Part of the problem is that the Church keeps telling us what she wants, but won't be too specific on what she doesn't want. Still there's talk of the cult of the banal, and Sacramtum Caritatis says this:
"Certainly as far as the liturgy is concerned, we cannot say that one song is as good as another. Generic improvisation or the introduction of musical genres which fail to respect the meaning of the liturgy should be avoided."

As Msgr. Miserachs Grau, President of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music said, "But the reforms of the past had to deal with forms of music that were, perhaps, "excessive," but formally correct. But much of the "music" that is written today ignores, I will not say the grammar, but even the ABC´s of musical art. In the more or less critical situations that we have considered, there was never a degeneration like the present one."