Rolan Ambrocio
The Philippine Women's University, Ethnomusicology Department, Graduate Student
- Anthropology, Music, Religion, Ethnography, Popular Culture, Sociology of Religion, and 28 moreComparative Religion, Christianity, Gregorian Chant (Performing Arts), Liturgy, Gregorian Chant, Medieval musicology, Ethnomusicology, Medieval Music, Sacred Music, Early Music, Liturgical Studies, Medieval Liturgy, Second Vatican Council, Medieval Music Theory, Plainchant, Chant research, Musicology, Codicology of medieval manuscripts, Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Manuscript Studies, Neumatic Notations (music), Medieval liturgical music, Early Notations, Medieval Musical Notation, The Liturgical Reform of Vatican II, Historical Musicology, Chant, and Historical Ethnomusicologyedit
- I am an ethnomusicologist focusing on the perfomative aspects of youth religious culture. My research interest includes catholic liturgical music, gregorian chant, issues of ethnographic methodology within ethnomusicology.edit
The meaning of sacred music has become blurred when the Second Vatican II Council allowed the wider use of the vernaculars. While chant and Latin remained part of the available options, it was discarded instead of the more popular.... more
The meaning of sacred music has become blurred when the Second Vatican II Council allowed the wider use of the vernaculars. While chant and Latin remained part of the available options, it was discarded instead of the more popular. Recently, the interest in chant and Latin started to take hold among young Filipino Catholics who refer to chant and Latin as "sacred". This has been explained as a mere nostalgia and disobedience to the real intention of the Council. This study asks the question: what is the meaning of Latin and chant for these contemporary young Filipino Catholics and how do they experience it?
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This paper explores the processes that contributes to the notion, meaning, and experience of Catholic liturgical music by considering the shaping and meaning-making agency of social aesthetic elements in defining the meaning of what... more
This paper explores the processes that contributes to the notion, meaning, and experience of Catholic liturgical music by considering the shaping and meaning-making agency of social aesthetic elements in defining the meaning of what sacred music is and how it is experienced.